No Blood Sacrifice

I cannot worship, let alone believe in, a divinity that requires a blood sacrifice to be appeased. Therefore, I chose to stop believing in the Christian god decades ago.

When people stop and think about the foundational ideas of Christianity--that a father should be willing to sacrifice his son to appease the divinity demanding such a sacrifice--they should immediately realize how evil that divinity really is.

How could a loving god ask his followers to sacrifice anyone, let alone their own children, to make him happy?

Why would a loving god require his son to die an agonizing death to make up for the "sins" of humanity, if he was not just some sadistic maniac?

According to Evelyn Reed in her important and insightful book, Woman's Evolution, men in the earliest cultures killed other humans because they could not or would not differentiate them from animals. Realizing men, in their blood frenzy from hunting, could easily decide to kill them and their children, women ostracized the men from the original matriarchal clans until they had cleansed themselves of the blood and the blood frenzy from hunting.

Yet the biblical god prefers blood--eschewing Cain's gifts of grains and fruits of the earth in preference for Abel's dead animals. Repeatedly, stories of the bible demonstrate a blood-lusting god who prefers men's offerings over women's--blood over Mother Earth's bounty.

But I believe men have long envied women's ability to bleed for three to five days every month and not die--as magical an act as giving birth, so that some cultures include rituals for men that imitate menstruation or childbirth.

Perhaps, because women gave a monthly "blood sacrifice," men thought they needed to do so, as well, which led to the human sacrifices so common in so many cultures--from Judaic to Mayan cultures.

Isn't it about time we human beings grew up, even if we feel an association with the divine, to acknowledge that we do not have to obey a "god" that demands total obedience and a blood sacrifice to be accepted by him?

Why don't more people realize that, by accepting a blood sacrifice as their pact between the Christian god and themselves, they demonstrate a cold-blooded willingness to sacrifice others for their own selfish ends?

Aren't most Christians who oppose abortion hypocrites, then, willing to allow someone to die for their sins, but not willing to sacrifice a fetus to improve a woman's life?