Elaboration 62

It is the great H.G. Wells who writes admirably about the stupid obsession with 'blood' of all religious sects and rituals. It is the 'My captains, Artemis must have blood' of Aeschylus. Christianity is not less involved with it, as token sacrifice (the lamb, blood in wine, etc.). Wells mentions also the insanity of the sacrifice of virgins and of tearing out the still beating heart. When superstition comes in, when influences never found in our reality, just the whims of fanatics, are deciding our way of living, then, bloody business takes over. An insanity that we have the right and duty to escape.