Why Humans Sacrifice

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:   / pascal-hymn-synthwave   ================================== 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/Language-Creat... 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/