There is nothing in the Bible to prohibit human sacrifice, or even polygyny. Only the sacrifices to any other gods were forbidden. Those are traditions, not scriptures. Even the Protestants failed to realize this, which only proves that they are just as tradition-bound as the Catholics they complained about. And isn’t death penalty a human sacrifice to Lady Justice?
Yeats suggested the first individualists were the Stoics:
"After Plato and Aristotle, the mind is as exhausted as were the armies of Alexander at his death, but the Stoics can discover morals and turn philosophy into a rule of life. Among them doubtless - the first beneficiaries of Plato's hatred of imitation - we may discover the first benefactors of our modern individuality."
But then a page later he says: "This Church...will make men also featureless as clay or dust. Night will fall upon man's wisdom now that man has been taught that he is nothing." But that last bit was as much a response to the effect of scientism.
"Christianity aimed at the preservation of the individual ego, in whose service it preaches “compassion.” Christian compassion is hostile to life, because the laws of life are not the laws of the ego: therefore, Nietzsche was correct in spurning it. The paganism that he wished to proclaim, on the other hand, was a splendid surrender of the ego and, hence, a phenomenon of life."
There is nothing in the Bible to prohibit human sacrifice, or even polygyny. Only the sacrifices to any other gods were forbidden. Those are traditions, not scriptures. Even the Protestants failed to realize this, which only proves that they are just as tradition-bound as the Catholics they complained about. And isn’t death penalty a human sacrifice to Lady Justice?
The slaughter of Jericho was a mass sacrifice to YHWH.
Yeats suggested the first individualists were the Stoics:
"After Plato and Aristotle, the mind is as exhausted as were the armies of Alexander at his death, but the Stoics can discover morals and turn philosophy into a rule of life. Among them doubtless - the first beneficiaries of Plato's hatred of imitation - we may discover the first benefactors of our modern individuality."
But then a page later he says: "This Church...will make men also featureless as clay or dust. Night will fall upon man's wisdom now that man has been taught that he is nothing." But that last bit was as much a response to the effect of scientism.
"Christianity aimed at the preservation of the individual ego, in whose service it preaches “compassion.” Christian compassion is hostile to life, because the laws of life are not the laws of the ego: therefore, Nietzsche was correct in spurning it. The paganism that he wished to proclaim, on the other hand, was a splendid surrender of the ego and, hence, a phenomenon of life."
Klages gems.