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Originally Posted by awareness
The eating of human sacrifices has been going on long before Jesus. The metaphysics is now symbolic, when we take the Lord's Table. Even then it's been believed for a thousand years that the bread and wine are actually the body and blood of Jesus.
We eat our messiah, that was a human sacrifice.
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Yes but the sacred Christian meal is symbolic not literal, physical or corporeal. That's a step up from animal sacrifice and two steps up from human sacrifice. It does involve acceptance of the notion that God sacrificed his son in order to be one's personal savior. Insofar as that implies acceptance of the validity human sacrifice on any level, can we conclude that that has a 100% salutary effect on one's conscience? Anyway, it looks to me like Christianity began with the response of Jesus's followers to the crucifixion which many scholars today don't believe was something that was anticipated for the Messiah even by Jesus.