Human sacrifice

[John F. Schwaller]

Dear members,

The current thread on sacrifice has now moved to a point relatively far
beyond the parameters of the list.  If you wish to continue the discussion,
which does have merit and which I have found interesting, please do it
off-line.  I must agree that to call any death by warfare "sacrifice"
muddies the term in such a way as to make clear discussion meaningless.  It
is the over-riding cultural context that must be taken into account, as the
friars did when they quickly developed moral plays on the theme of the
Sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham.

J. F. Schwaller, List Owner


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