Spare the Children!

There is much about this story that is profoundly troubling and it is worth contemplating--both in its Biblical and Qur'anic versions. One of the best conclusions to be drawn from it (in either version) is that God willed an end to human sacrifice. And yet, human sacrifice goes on in multiple ways: "literal" human sacrifice--through militarism, through poverty, through profit-driven systems of healthcare, through hunger that we have the resources (but not the political will) to eliminate. If that is what is meant by taking such a story "literally," I wish more people took it that way.

Happy Eid!