Steven Pinker
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After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity. ✨ Steven Pinker (2011). The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes, p.205, Penguin UK

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