From the anarchist Michael Bakunin (1814-76):
"Then,
remembering that he was not only a God of vengeance and wrath, but also a
God of love, after having tormented the existence of a few milliards of
poor human beings and condemned them to an eternal hell, he took pity
on the rest, and, to save them and reconcile his eternal and divine love
with his eternal and divine anger, always greedy for victims and blood,
he sent into the world, as an expiatory victim, his only son, that he
might be killed by men" (God and the State (1882).
"All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest
principally on the idea of sacrifice–that is, on the perpetual
immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity" (ibid.,
pp. 25-26).
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