Here's the thing.
Cultures at that time sacrificed kids. Abraham was Babylonian, who were known to sacrifice children.
This story is God teaching Abraham a lesson. He told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac just as all every other culture did to their gods, but God stopped him to show that this is not His way and had Abraham sacrifice an animal instead. This story points forward to Jesus. Abraham stated that God would provide the sacrifice. Jesus was God sacrificing His son for us and our sins.
This guy comes from an era where people were buying homes and raising 3 kids on factory worker money. Lunch now costs more than the average hourly wage, everyone is poor, and these old retards keep saying "just eat rice and beans kids" as if Chipotle is why wages are stagnant
It's such a harmful Christian theology that looks at wars and famine and says, "This might be the fulfillment of End Times prophecies!" and "Jesus might be retuning soon!" instead of "look at how much people are suffering” and “how can we stop this injustice?"
atheists will say shit like this and then have a library card and go to a hospital and have a college degree and yell "Jesus Christ!" when they're scared
one obvious takeaway from the Epstein revelations is the need to permanently & without exception hold members of the billionaire class in contempt. an ‘ethical billionaire’ is a childish fantasy. no one amasses that level of wealth without exploiting labour, distorting markets,
unpopular opinion but a lot of “mental health issues” disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. peace is expensive and pretending money doesn’t affect mental health is privilege.