>>17839526It doesn't matter what version you use. It is NOT about "human sacrifices"
There was no "decline". If ever, it increased as the entire Coliseum was a sacrifice for the gods. The opening ceremony of the Coliseum involves forcing prisoners to partake in humiliating and excruciating rituals before being burned in a pile
One instance was that of a woman who was raped by a donkey and then fed to a lion
One was a man cut open as reenactment of Prometheus
And another case involved prisoners in fine garment forced to dance and then the gladiators would come rushing to kill as many as they could
And so on and so forth.
Human sacrifices was not an outliner. It was just replaced with another and did not end until Christians took power.
Self-mummification were recorded as early as 380 AD where monks like Bo Sengguang had themselves mummified and their bodies preserved in lacquer
It is unknown whether it was done by themselves but it is known that monks uphold their corpses to this day because uphold their suicide as a path to enlightenment
>Jesus is not the same character as the OT godFALSE!
He is exactly the same person
The only difference here is that Jesus was active only for 3 years whereas the OT was a compilation of books that spoke of 1800+ years of conflict
The genocide of the Ammorites were declared 800 years after their first mention (they were first mentioned in Genesis and were not punished until Deuteronomy)
Guess what happened to the Jews just 800 years after they crucified Christ.
Same God, same level of patience, and same unstoppable wrath. Fear it