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Originally Posted by awareness
[COLOR="DarkRed"]But actually they were both carryovers from the ancient early days of man, when they sacrificed humans to a deity, thinking it would win favor ; like the Aztecs that believed daily human sacrifices were necessary for the sun to rise in the morning. In other words, a superstition.
You as a scientist surely know this.
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Sure. Oldest forms of currency were simply a simplified barter system (cattle, salt, etc.). Things of value that everyone needed were used as a form of money. The problem is that this is foolish. If everyone is keeping a pile of salt in their piggy bank then you drive up the price of salt used to preserve your food. Ultimately this moved to gold and silver coinage. Again, stupid for the same reason. But all of those forms of currency demonstrate that we use what we value. We came off the gold standard in the 1930s. They called it the "petrodollar" because petroleum was the key component of our economy (not simply the buying and selling of it, but also the thing that powered the economy). Prior to this you could have called the economy in the South a "slave economy" again, not because the biggest part of the economy was buying and selling slaves, but because that was the power that produced the goods. In reality, our dollars today are "sweat". Our economy is tied to our GDP, and the value of our currency is based on the value of our Gross domestic product.
God respects our labor, so He doesn't disrespect this form of currency
"for God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed toward his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints, and still do minister."
But this currency does demonstrate how unfair or uneven the worldly system is. Some CEO's have pay packages in excess of $50 million a year, whereas the average salary worldwide is $18,000 (half of the entire world's population makes less than that). That is we value the sweat of a 1 hr. of a CEO's time greater than an entire year for more than 3 billion people.
So then, if you were God what would you value? Cows? Salt? Gold? Sweat?
God values Blood. That means God values life.
According to you this is superstitious, antiquated, and inhumane. Really? What does BP value (the company responsible for the deepwater horizon oil spill)? How about Merck (you remember the scandal with Vioxx)? Exxon (of the Exxon Valdez fame)? What about Ford and Firestone with their exploding tires? And who can forget Union Carbide certainly not those still alive in Bhopal. No, if I were God the only thing I'd value is life and wouldn't care less about your paper money.
So the Aztecs believed in daily human sacrifices, interesting, didn't know that. But obviously completely irrelevant to a forum on the Local Church and the Christian faith. Unless of course you are trying to show how much more civilized they were than us. 1 human per day, that is 365 a year? In the last 100 years we have been killing over 1 million people a year in wars. So what is that 0.1%? That does not include purges, genocides and gas chambers.
Hopefully your claim that we are now more civilized was designed as a joke. Surely you don't believe that. Hitler demonstrates humanity becoming civilized and less superstitious? How about the Rape of Nanking? I don't even want to discuss the third world countries like China, Russia, Rwanda, etc. But what about the US, that shining beacon of light? Other than the atomic bomb, and a nuclear arsenal that can incinerate the world, what's not to like? Oh yeah, we now have made blowing up people very impersonal, simply push a button in Washington DC, and a missile incinerates a village halfway around the world.
In the old days, those superstitious, bloody, uncivilized days, no one would think of blowing up a funeral party. They would kill most of the men, take the women and children as slaves or servants. But now, no one values human life, push a button blow them all up. And this is not in some attempt to kill genuine enemies, this is when we accidentally killed some innocents and we now want to obliterate the whole town so there are no witnesses. You are seriously cracked if you think we are now more civilized. God values blood, obviously governments and corporations don't.
And don't talk about animal sacrifices. You seriously think that the way we kill cows, sheep, pigs and chickens is more humane now than when it was done in the open, by priests, according to the law? Why do you think people pay extra for kosher meat, it certainly is simply the Jews and Muslims.