Contributions and Sacrifices

From the very beginning of human language, sacrifice is one of the oldest words. In stark reality the meaning of this word comes from the Hebrew “minchah.” Synonyms of sacrifice can include: contribution, offering, apportion, bestow, and share. As religious connotations affords, it is those in offices of religious authority which asks, and at times, require members of religious organizations to contribute and sacrifice ones worth into a common pool to better the general good of the parental organization, be it religious or secular.  The religious usually fall into private spheres where the secular can also be private in its structure, but most understand these spheres as governmental institutions.

To sacrifice is not a matter of a human impulse. Instead what lies underneath this understanding, yet being unsaid, is the fact that sacrifice is directly related to rational calculation, and cunning manipulation. From the religious the aspects of sacrifice is more to an acute rendering of contribution, or a tithe, for the benefit of a god. From the secular sacrifice is more of a thought of delivering benefits to a king. The killing of human adults or children to false gods was mainly for the receiving of possible benefits from these gods, or to withhold harms; i.e., natural disasters.

In modern times these contributions and sacrifices are redefined into governmental issuances of taxes. The modern liberal progressive politician has the gall to be asking, as would a false god, thier constituents primarily, and secondary the citizenry, to sacrifice their hard earned wealth to appease the governmental gods. The truth of the matter is this rational calculation, the cunning manipulation, is the seeking to give governmental gods, and also to bribe the government gods, into delivering benefits, and withholding harms, is much the same rhetoric that spewed from ancient witch doctors that danced around bond fires and sacrificing adults and children.

Nothing changes, and everything changes.  It's the very personal individual who sees through this rhetoric.