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The sacrifice of Jesus culminates a long tradition of human sacrifice. The Israelite general Jephthah sacrifices his daughter to the biblical god for granting him victory in battle,4 and that same god tells Moses to “take all the chiefs of the people, and impale them in the sun before the LORD, in order that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel.”5
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And people saying how crazy it was that Indigenous people sacrificed others to their gods. Meanwhile, the CHRISTIAN BIBLE references human sacrifices repeatedly
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