In this video I discuss the symbolic meaning of sacrifice in general, why it’s a human universal and how we still engage with ritualistic sacrifice today. There are many different examples of sacrifice, not only killings, but offering and dedication for initiation into a group, as tribute or taxes, remembering the dead, to found a city or a home etc. Finally I talk about how Christianity solves the problem of sacrifice, in particular the problem of mimetic sacrifice of the scapegoat (René Girard).

==================================

Intro music:   / pascalhymnsynthwave  

==================================

Timestamps:
00:00:00 Coming up next...
00:00:31 Intro music
00:01:02 Introduction
00:02:45 The "religion" category
00:04:46 The two goals of all beings
00:07:41 Why humans kill
00:10:10 Why humans act selflessly
00:13:33 René Girard: The scapegoat
00:21:44 The limits of Girard: other types of sacrifice
00:23:44 Ritual sacrifices bind us together
00:26:48 The tribute: sacrificing to authority
00:28:59 Human sacrifice and war
00:33:21 Sacrificing food
00:34:49 The sacrifice to found a city or a home
00:37:34 Levels of ritualized sacrifice
00:39:30 The first born
00:41:02 Initiation sacrifices
00:44:45 Sacrifice in the Gospels
00:47:26 The problem with the scapegoat sacrifice
00:50:09 What Christianity reveals
00:53:20 The modern world's sacrifices
00:56:20 Abortion
00:58:11 The elites
00:59:26 Final words
01:01:48 Outro

==================================


The Symbolic World website and blog: http://www.thesymbolicworld.com
Merch: http://www.thesymbolicworld.store
The Language of Creation (Matthieu Pageau): https://www.amazon.com/LanguageCreat...
Carving workshop: https://jonathanpageau.thinkific.com/...

The Symbolic World podcast:
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0gI8bUw...
Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

More videos from The Symbolic World:
Clips Channel:    / jonathanpageauclips  
French Channel:    / jonathanpageaufrançais  
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/page...
Dtube: https://steemit.com/@symbolism

Join the conversation:
Unofficial Facebook discussion group:   / 1989208418065298  
The Symbolic World Reddit:   / thesymbolicworld  

Support this channel:
Website: https://thesymbolicworld.com/support/
Patreon:   / pageauvideos  
Subscribestar: https://www.subscribestar.com/jonatha...
Paypal: http://www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau

Social media links:
Facebook:   / thesymbolicworld  
Twitter:   / pageaujonathan  
Instagram:   / jonathan.pageau  

My intro was arranged and recorded by Matthew Wilkinson.
My website designers, Anomalist Design: https://www.anomalistdesign.com/