Who can argue with a sacrificial person? It has driven most of the wars, and the romanticization of war, in all of human history, on both sides. It serves those with power that the common folks all believe mightily in sacrifice, while far too often their own sons and daughters never go to war or work at all. “Personal sacrifice” creates the Olympics and American Idol, many heroic projects, and many wonderful people. It is just not the Gospel, but only its most common substitute.3
