@virgilgotcoffee@hellznobro@cunha_tristan@owenbroadcast considering it was an ancient ethnic religion, the akedah serves as an origin story for their covenant with God that tells them they can’t take the genealogical purity aspect of it for granted.
@GarrettPetersen@martianwyrdlord the whole series is pretty consistent on the prescient trap. dune was a steelman argument from herbert's perspective. as a messiah, paul walks and sounds like a duck, as it were. that he is a contrivance is immaterial. everyone including the oracle loses their agency to it.