Re: Re: cult commitments (from stormsteads)

From: Nick Eden <nick_at_...>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 19:01:50 +0100


On Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:45:40 -0000, you wrote:

>> Note that much of the commited time and resources specifically to
>Barntar are things that a farmer who earns his living from his fields
>would be doing anyway.<
>
>I have a problem with this. Theism revolves around the notion of
>sacrifice. If there is no sacrifice then there is no exchange between
>deity and inidividual. TR states 'Some things can be generated or
>experienced only by human beings, including time, attention, and
>consciousness. In a sacrificial ritual, people give these things to
>the deities. '

I think sacrifice is involved. You sacrifice your interests, if they are not the God's interests. You sacrifice love, except when you love in the manner of your God. You sacrifice the freedom to do what your God did not.

Your Barntar devotee sacrifices the cows that might have given a comfortable old age to have the best plough team in Sartar NOW. Perhaps not on an alter, perhaps just to Crafty Ketil, the ox merchant, but those cows are gone.



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