1. Pat Robertson seem to think God is an incompetent time traveler who kills many but not all the Hitler babieshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ekyLKTbuY …
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8. Robertson's idea that God is still sacrificing babies is a return to the horrific roots of monotheism. We're back to Baal.
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@HeerJeet also don't forget the Carthaginians. Flaubert wrote a fantastic white guy rendition of that story
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@HeerJeet wait what? I thought that was the point of the Other Jewish Myth -
@swartable Right -- a replication of Abraham/Isaac on a cosmic scale. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet ... but isn't that always how our leaders rationalize violence?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet FTR, in Jewish trad that's the pt of the ram-for-Isaac swap. Pt of problem w. new Xtian cult was the human sacrifice at its core -
@TomLevenson Well, I think the two stories are both open to negative & positive interpretations. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Whooooooooaa. 30 years in the church (prior to leaving) and I never put that together. You sort of blew my mind right there.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet Getting into Rene Girard territory here. For him, Christ's innocence exposes futility of the sacrificial/scapegoating mechanism. -
@BrentSirota I was thinking of Girard when composing those tweets, yes. - Show replies
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