Vance makes up history. And fuzzies which Europeans he is talking about,

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7. The story of Abraham's WILLINGINNESS to sacrifice Issac comes to mind here.

Sunday school teachers like to shimmy around the subject by emphasizing that God stopped Abraham in the nick of time, but the point of the story remains the same: Obedience. God commands it and even if every fiber of your being knows it is wrong, you follow through.

This is one of the earliest memories that I carry from my own education into Christian Civilization. Abraham is the human prototype, while God, the Father, is the perfect expression. He sacrificed his only begotten son, after all. That is what the whole religion is founded upon: a parent who is willing to give his child to die.