Good Friday: God's Human Sacrifice!

Abraham's Sacrifice of Isaac

Just recently I watched "Hunger Games" at the movies and came away sicken by the fact that a society would resort to sacrificing their children in order save the peace.  In case you have not seen the show, the story is set sometime in the future.  There were 13 colonies of a country call Panem that rebelled against the powerful ruling Capitol which plunged the whole country into a devastating civil war.  After a crushing victory, the Capitol devised the Hunger Games as a yearly reminder to the colonies of its authority and as a continual punishment for their rebellion.  Every year, each colony would have to send a pair of tributes, a boy and a girl, between 12 and 18 years, chosen by lottery, to participate in a televised reality show where all 24 tributes would battle to the death until only one champion remains.  The society would satisfy their blood lust and the Capitol would tighten its grip over the colonies.

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