Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice … - Steve Allen

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Propaganda, to be effective, must be believed. To be believed, it must be credible. To be credible, it must be true.

Steve Allen

Consider the wave of revulsion that floods the average person when he or she hears of the practice of human sacrifice by the Aztecs and other so-called primitive peoples. How savage and barbaric such practices seem. But when a Christian or Jew comes across human sacrifice in the Bible (see Jephthah's immolation of his daughter in Judges 11:30-40), is he or she repulsed?

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