(I prefer a cross without a body on it.)
Vault Of The Ages, Chapter 14.
"...the tribe...had to appease heaven with the greatest sacrifice of all: human life taken according to law." (p. 137)
A barbaric belief. Could it return in the future? It still exists in the present. It might return to its earlier, more literal, form if civilization destroyed itself but humanity survived. Indeed, ideas of appeasement by blood sacrifice might then run rampant.
The Buddha said somewhere that the best sacrifice is an offering not of flesh to the gods but of fruit to the poor. This demonstrates what immense moral strides can be made within spiritual philosophical traditions. What the Buddha said addresses us now whereas only a Jewish minority seeks the building of a Third Temple with resumed animal sacrifices.
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