Father Stephen De Young
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first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
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So being part of a people was about two things.
Participating in their initiation rituals.
Yes.
And then participating in the ongoing ritual life of the community.
So biblically, you look at ancient Israel, what made you an Israelite is...
If you were male, you were circumcised.
If you were female, you were either the daughter or the wife of a circumcised male.
And you ate the Passover, right?
You participated in the festal sort of year.
Within Christianity, right, it's your baptized initiation, right?
And then you participate in the Eucharist and the ongoing baptism.
sacramental life of the church so the same was true on this other side right so what we've been talking about is essentially the initiation ritual right the beginning right and then there was an ongoing ritual life and according to the book of wisdom or the wisdom of solomon that depending on where you land right christianity may or may not be part of your old testament um
makes this explicit other texts outside of the scriptures make this explicit that the ongoing ritual life of these people involved human sacrifice
And human sacrifice involved cannibalism.
Yes.
We have a very skewed view of sacrifice.
We haven't done a lot of animal sacrifice and seen a lot of it, so we have kind of a skewed view that it's about killing the animal.
It's not really about killing the animal, it's about eating the animal.
Yes.
Part of it being offered to God or a god, and then part of it being consumed, right?
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