Even at my most religious I was never able to accept the Isaac sacrifice.
It always evoked a deeply visceral disgust, and reflected on my feelings towards Abraham. twitter.com/JosephNollaSJ/
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i remember asking my parents if god told them to, would they kill me?
my parents didn't answer the question, they just assured me god would never tell them to kill me
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That’s *exactly* what I did, the story disturbed me so much. My parents said something like that, and added that even if I died somehow, I would go straight to heaven as an innocent, so it would actually be a blessing....
It was a hard pill to swallow.
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My dad actually had a pretty good response: he said that Jesus was the final sacrifice, so we could KNOW that any voice demanding another was not from God. (I never thought to ask the hypothetical follow up “but what if you somehow knew it was from God?)