Kingdom Come

Well then, Richard Dawkins, if the Bible is just fiction and the God of Abraham is just an invented character, why do you make it your life’s work to discredit him?

Your capricious, malevolent, biased tirades against

• the Abrahamic God who only demanded sacrifice of his own Son rather than
• other historical gods who demanded uncounted billions of human sacrifices over millennia

underscores how unqualified you are to give an opinion, let alone hold a chair in a university.

All ancient cultures/religions offered blood sacrifices to their deities. Ancient Africans, Greeks, Aztecs, Indians, Christians, Muslims, and so on believed blood sacrifices had a powerful effect on deities 

blood sacrifices are not based on superstition but are founded on instinctual knowledge…

Without blood, we die. Blood transports nutrients and oxygen to tissues, regulates body temperature, and transports antibodies that fight infections. In ancient Chinese spirituality, blood was referred to as a denser form of Qi (Vital Life Force). The ancient Chinese knew that blood is the material form of the life force present in all living things.

Since blood is the material form of the universal life-force, it was/is offered to deities to enable them to materialize and influence the material world. Without blood, it is difficult for many spiritual beings to influence the material world because they won’t be able to materialize for long. This explains why the ancients offered blood to their gods during drought, war, or any catastrophe. The blood offered to these deities enabled them to materialize and influence the activities of the physical world by bringing rain, peace, or any good thing the ancients wanted…

Andrew Hennessy – in his article The Reptilian Blood Legacy -writes ‘the Elite Priestess or ‘Mother Goddess’ in the hierarchy who performed rituals for the brotherhood at the highest level, told me that without human blood the reptilians/satanic entities cannot survive in this dimension…

“the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls…it is the life of all flesh.” (Leviticus 17:11-14)

There are laws of nature governing even hyperdimensional beings.

Law #1: Life can only be maintained by taking another’s life.

Animism, the commonly held indigenous peoples’ belief that spirits inhabit all elements of nature – vegetation and animal – is consistent with the biblical understanding of life energy being initially input by the Singularity to all living things. Science is learning that even vegetation is sentient – perceiving, experiencing, feeling, and responding. So even vegetarians sacrifice others’ life force in order to maintain their own.

But animals not only provide physical life energy, but are the prime source of soul energy – emotions, creativity, intellect, relationships. Who wants to exist as a lump on a log when scintillating experiences are ripe for the taking? On the positive end of the spectrum, think of how much cuddling kittens or taking an exhilarating horse ride adds to the quality of life. On the negative end of the spectrum think how discovering tortured kittens or the decapitated head of one’s prize race horse in one’s bed destroys one’s quality of life.

Back when the Hebrews were sacrificing sheep, the families of these agrarian societies were intimately involved with their sheep. They knew their sheep individually, perhaps even by name, and it was as close to cannibalism as you can imagine slaughtering and eating your pet. I know families who raise rabbits for food. I couldn’t do it.

And the highest value sacrifice of life is absolutely human.

Mao Zedong’s 1966-1976 failed Communist Cultural Revolution resulted in mass starvation. Many people across China were reduced to incidents of what is known as “starvation cannibalism,” similar to the Donner Party. Families were often reduced to trading their children for the children of their neighbors, so they wouldn’t wind up killing and eating their own kids.

China is a special case because it was never exposed to the taboo against cannibalism. This is a Western taboo. There are numerous descriptions of emperors and other members of the imperial court enjoying humans as a type of food, prepared in all different ways.

Human sacrifice is typically intended to bring good fortune and to pacify the gods, for example in the context of the dedication of a completed building like a temple or bridge. Fertility was another common theme in ancient religious sacrifices, such as sacrifices to the Aztec god of agriculture Xipe Totec.

In ancient Japan, legends talk about hitobashira (“human pillar”), in which maidens were buried alive at the base of or near some constructions to protect the buildings against disasters or enemy attacks, and almost identical accounts appear in the Balkans (The Building of Skadar and Bridge of Arta).

For the re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs reported that they killed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, “between 10,000 and 80,400 persons” were sacrificed in the ceremony.

Human sacrifice can also have the intention of winning the gods’ favor in warfare. In Homeric legend, Iphigeneia was to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to appease Artemis so she would allow the Greeks to wage the Trojan War.

In some notions of an afterlife, the deceased will benefit from victims killed at his funeral. Mongols, Scythians, early Egyptians and various Mesoamerican chiefs could take most of their household, including servants and concubines, with them to the next world. This is sometimes called a “retainer sacrifice”, as the leader’s retainers would be sacrificed along with their master, so that they could continue to serve him in the afterlife…

The history of human sacrifice in China may extend as early as 2300 BCE. Excavations of the ancient fortress city of Shimao in the northern part of modern Shaanxi province revealed 80 skulls ritually buried underneath the city’s eastern wall. Forensic analysis indicates the victims were all teenage girls.

The ancient Chinese are known to have made drowned sacrifices of men and women to the river god Hebo. They also have buried slaves alive with their owners upon death as part of a funeral service. This was especially prevalent during the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

“Then Jesus said unto them…Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.

Whoso eateth MY flesh, and drinketh MY blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:53-54)

And many of his readers today react by gagging. But the pagans of his day understood exactly what he was saying. 

Jesus is a good educator. For those of us unfamiliar with those practices he is using concrete language of “eating” to explain the parallel abstract concept of “absorbing life”.

Many writers…mix abstract language with somewhat concrete language, but they don’t become specific enough…only when readers can picture a specific scene, your writing becomes engaging and colorful.

To get readers to listen to our advice, we need to explain the abstract rules, and share concrete stories to add meaning. We sketch the big picture, and use examples to add color.

• “He that “eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood” = “incorporates my life in him”
  • the eaten and the eater become permanently merged into each other

Law #2: The taker of life is responsible for engaging in relationship with the Life-Giver.

A modern Pagan gives a good explanation of what casual Christianity has lost sight of.

The common meaning of sacrifice is “to give up.” We pour a libation, giving up the opportunity to drink the wine in order to give it to the gods…

The older meaning of sacrifice is “to make sacred.” By dedicating something to the gods through ritual and ceremony it becomes sacred – it takes on some of the essence of the gods. Some of that divine essence then returns to us…

I’m glad modern Pagans are talking about sacrifice. Whether we “give up” or “make sacred” or both, regular sacrifices will strengthen our relationships with our gods and goddesses.

The Bible warns against establishing a relationship with predators, and history proves that any relationship with the gods results in bondage to their superior power and endless hunger.

“if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee… neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee…Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them” (Exodus 23:33, Deuteronomy 7:16, Deuteronomy 12:30)

 “of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.” (II Peter 2:19)

Relationship with false gods resulting in permanent captivity is their version of being permanently connected in a good way with God the Father.

• “As the living Father hath sent me [away], and I [still] live by [am connected to] the Father / YHVH / Singularity / Infinite source of eternal life:
• [even] so he that “eateth me”…dwelleth in me and…shall live [permanently] by me.” 

Law #3 Relationship Is Confirmed Through Reciprocal Service

“two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus…And…Jesus himself drew near, and went with them…And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him.” (Luke 24:14-31)

In this case, the trigger to knowing their relationship to Jesus was receiving bread blessed by him.

We should intrinsically understand from common decent human behavior that blessing acknowledges, i.e. connects, the one giving the blessing to the giver of the blessing. The source of the gift of spiritual life may be invisible, but the gift and giver are as real as any person to whom gratitude and appreciation are due.

Unlike the one-sided entitled Christian prayers taught to children that invariably start with “Thank you for…” and go on to request “please bless…”, Jewish prayers acknowledge the two-way relationship, the unity that consists in not only acknowledging the receipt of an act of goodness, but reciprocating in like manner. 

Like bringing flowers or desert to the hostess of a dinner party. Person #1: “Thank you!” Person #2: “Oh thank YOU!”

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְ‑יָ אֱ‑לֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם הַמּוֹצִיא לֶחֶם מִן הָאָרֶץ:

BA-RUCH A-TAH A-DO-NOI
ELO-HAI-NU ME-LECH HA-O-LAM
HA-MO-TZI LE-CHEM MIN HA-A-RETZ.
Blessed are You, L-rd our G‑d, King of the
Universe, Who brings forth bread from the earth.

The person who prays in this manner acknowledges responsibility to reciprocate the gift of life by giving life back.

“who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompense unto him again? (Romans 11:35)

Vampire legends may be seriously considered to be accounts of apex predator hosts directly feeding on the richest source of life – the blood. People are entranced by these creatures for the same reason that was Eve’s undoing in the Garden – the promise of power in both human and hyperdimensional worlds.

The word vampire defines the being’s social and spiritual identity and status. In short, a vampire is an Overlord. 

The real secret is that vampirism is not a disease…it is a supernatural teaching. Those who learn it became extremely attuned to their own life force up to the point when they sense how it slowly, inexorably escapes them…

So when a vampire decides to adopt a student, the teaching might start with repeatedly draining the prospect so that they will appreciate their life force more. Note that the student doesn’t have to be a volunteer at all and the whole thing can take a form of dark seduction – will they learn, or will they die miserably?

Law #4: Service Requires Dedicating One’s Body To The One Who Gives Life To The Body

“I beseech ye therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service…that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:1

The only alternative for humans who want to break the glass ceiling of their four dimensional limits but do not want to be limited to God’s righteous unselfish behavior is to instead merge with like-minded unrighteous sociopathic exploiting hyper dimensional beings. We can deduce the unholy gods’ practices as any contradicting the holy practices.

This trope is for people who agree to sustain someone’s Horror Hunger… There can be multiple reasons why: maybe they are close friends trying to keep the feeder safe, maybe they are Vampire Vannabes excited to get close to one…If they’re really lucky, they can work some form of symbiosis into the relationship…

A romantic and/or sexual relationship may be involved, which could lead to Hemo Erotic and/or Kiss of the Vampire. Compare to Zombie Advocate. In darker depictions, the respect is sorely lacking from one side – the willing donors are portrayed as somewhere between cult members and addicts and their vampiric overlords are quite happy to exploit them.

This trope is not exclusive to vampires, but for all creatures that have a…need to feed on human energies.

Humans do not need to intentionally dedicate their service to the gods. Whenever humanity chooses evil actions over righteous, we have allied ourselves with the rebel angels / gods, essentially realizing the manifestation of the gods’ will in the humans. This further opens up us humans to think their thoughts and physically act out their will through a variety of means.

• Bringing the gods’ presence into our focus through providing a physical housing for the spirit, either intentionally through an idol for worship, or unintentionally feeding lust via real or media-based cravings for materialism, sexuality, violence, foods and substances of abuse.
• Incorporating unclean substances into the human body via sacrifice with the intention of bonding with the spirits or unintentionally via lust for physically unhealthy or mind-altering substances.
• Transferring life energy through intentional shedding of blood in a sacrifice or through unintentional loss of one’s own life energy through health-deteriorating actions of overeating, substance abuse, perversions of sexual bonding.
• Altered states of mind intentionally induced in worshippers through intoxicants, frenzied dancing and uninhibited sex orgies inviting spirit possession, or unwittingly by humans losing their self-control in this activities.