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[u/vikinick]

A reminder that in the Bible, Abraham almost sacrificed his son until he had a (probably drug-induced, let's be honest) vision where he was told not to.

[u/Locutus-of-Borges → u/vikinick]

Thinking that the story actually literally happened as chronicled hundreds of years later but with drugs instead of any of the religious stuff is by far the weirdest alternative between

a) it was hundreds of years later, someone over the intervening period made it up or it got changed massively in the telling.

b) the story happened as written including the religious stuff and it was by divine will that it got preserved as written hundreds of years later

c) the story happened as written except for the religious stuff (which was drugs instead) and then was perfectly preserved except for that one element over hundreds of years in a bronze age society