Human Blood and Religion are Siblings


It's curious to me that Mayans and Christians, originating on far distant continents, thought human blood has some connection with a god or gods. Even more curious is Christian people still pay homage to a god through ritualized drinking of blood.

I've read that to enter the old world of the mafia one had to summit to a small cut and the exchange of blood with another member.

This mystic about blood even extends, I think, to the heart. We refer to the heart as if it holds some kind of emotion or intellect. It's not just the songs about hearts or hearts on Valentine's Day, the new mental trick in anti abortion politics talks about a heartbeat.

It's as if a heartbeat somehow represents a functioning brain. In truth is it represents nothing. All mammals embryos have heartbeats early in their development. A human embryo with a heartbeat is no smarter than a rabbit embryo with a heartbeat. The heartbeat does not mean the embryo is a human being.

The odd notion that one fertilized cell in a female's body is a new human being is a religious concept. Also a religious concept is the notion an embryo with a heartbeat is a new human being. It seems that where ever there is blood there is religion.

Often it is said atheism is a "religion." It does some things that are similar, people get together just like people in religion. But I've never heard of atheists symbolically drinking someone else's blood.

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