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Would you sacrifice your child? In Genesis 22, God asks Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. It’s a pretty well-known passage, but when you stop and think about it, it raises some pretty big questions.
What kind of God would ask someone to do this?
What kind of father would obey?
Christopher Hitchens saw this incident between God and Abraham as one big example of how religion is toxic. On the one hand, it is problematic that God would ask something like this in the first place. But on another level, Hitchens points out how problematic it seems that Abraham was willing to obey. What kind of loving parent would do that?
This passage raises some big questions!
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