Funny -or not so funny - while the capitalist state in the USA makes itself more pleasing to reactionary New Atheists ( banning Christian symbolism everywhere ) EXECUTION becomes a squalid , quasi-religious HUMAN SACRIFICE ritual - with the high priests of the state offering up the victim to both the majesty of the bloody LAW and the merciless Moloch Money God : a WARNING to the rebellious " underclass " seething with rage against " the system ". Two thousand years ago one notable sacrificial victim inspired a mass movement that helped to destroy the mighty Roman Empire. The crowd of his followers watching the hideous execution cried " murderers " !
Sep 30, 2015 - It is nothing but a human sacrifice ritual, some atavistic hold-over from the worst-old-days
of superstition when we had no idea how the world worked and hoped that
blood would appease the hidden powers. That's why the guilt or
innocence of the executed is ultimately irrelevant to the process; what's ...
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