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Tabular-Iceberg • 11/20/2024 • 1 reply • view on HN

Clearly yes if we go by the Bible. Then we should be happy to get away with just gold and labor and not our children like Isaac.


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graemep • 11/21/2024

The entire point of the story was that God did NOT want a child sacrifice.

In the historical context of other religions in the region demanding human sacrifices that is the message of the story.

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