Why Humans Sacrifice

In this video I discuss the symbolic meaning of sacrifice in general, why it’s a human universal and how we still engage with ritualistic sacrifice today. There are many different e[18/1996]
f sacrifice, not only killings, but offering and dedication for initiation into a group, as tribute or taxes, remembering the dead, to found a city or a home etc. Finally I talk about how Ch
ristianity solves the problem of sacrifice, in particular the problem of mimetic sacrifice of the scapegoat (René Girard).

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 – Coming up next…
00:00:31 – Intro music
00:01:02 – Introduction
00:02:45 – The “religion” category
00:04:46 – The two goals of all beings
00:07:41 – Why humans kill
00:10:10 – Why humans act selflessly
00:13:33 – René Girard: The scapegoat
00:21:44 – The limits of Girard: other types of sacrifice
00:23:44 – Ritual sacrifices bind us together
00:26:48 – The tribute: sacrificing to authority
00:28:59 – Human sacrifice and war
00:33:21 – Sacrificing food
00:34:49 – The sacrifice to found a city or a home
00:37:34 – Levels of ritualized sacrifice
00:39:30 – The first born
00:41:02 – Initiation sacrifices
00:44:45 – Sacrifice in the Gospels
00:47:26 – The problem with the scapegoat sacrifice
00:50:09 – What Christianity reveals
00:53:20 – The modern world’s sacrifices
00:56:20 – Abortion
00:58:11 – The elites
00:59:26 – Final words
01:01:48 – Outro

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