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i don’t buy into 90% of psychoanalysis but i do think it’s very funny to do it to kierkegaard

“The biblical story itself accepts the sacrificial frame as a fact of human existence, so that it envisions only a variation within this frame—an alternative victim—and not the abrogating of the sacrificial frame itself. … Why should we give the idea of sacrifice—in whatever form—a religious legitimation?”

guys i think i need to get real weird about biblical scholarship

“Although Christianity has dissociated itself from actual rites of child sacrifice, it has not denounced the theory of sacrifice … there has been little social pressure to rethink the idea of a religion of sacrifice. As a result, Christianity has legitimated the physical and psychic deaths of hundreds of thousands of children throughout the centuries.”

oh fuck em UP donald

"Thus, in the interest of making all Christians, including moderates and liberals, uncomfortable,"

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if i said the things i wish for james dobson i would violate goodreads terms of service

if this lives up to the intro it's going to fuck hard

Fascinating passage on Isaac and Abraham in light of passing on to offspring blindness to religious sacrifice.