And he doesn't seem to understand the point of replacing actual sacrifice with a proxy.
I never really thought about it till now, but perhaps these people really did commit sacrifice so often that having ANY ritual would suffice...not even due to the makeup of the ritual itselt, but just because people become so inured to repetition that they cannot live without it. Just continuing with their life structure, but without the bloodshed part. Give them a physical act of any sort...they are the sort of people more grounded in the physical plane anyhow.
Also, look at the name of his story, "The Love of Christ", and then how he goes on to describe a rather gross scenario which is entirely unnecessary to the point he is trying to make.
That is a disturbed mind to me, and not one that should be trusted.
And he doesn't seem to understand the point of replacing actual sacrifice with a proxy.
I never really thought about it till now, but perhaps these people really did commit sacrifice so often that having ANY ritual would suffice...not even due to the makeup of the ritual itselt, but just because people become so inured to repetition that they cannot live without it. Just continuing with their life structure, but without the bloodshed part. Give them a physical act of any sort...they are the sort of people more grounded in the physical plane anyhow.
Also, look at the name of his story, "The Love of Christ", and then how he goes on to describe a rather gross scenario which is entirely unnecessary to the point he is trying to make.
That is a disturbed mind to me, and not one that should be trusted.