• snooggums@piefed.world
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    18 hours ago

    I understand that ownership is not required for a sacrifice to be a sacrifice.

    Some are just offerings of things because the deity wants that type of thing. Doing it at a personal cost is a subset of sacrifices.

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      17 hours ago

      then why wasn’t the possum rewarded instead of the car lol

      the image suffers from inconsistent messaging and unintuitive conclusion

      shrug

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        17 hours ago

        Taking a life is not easy. The burden wears heavy. You can see this in the driver’s worried face. Unfortunately for us, like in the Stephen King movie Christine, there are Eldritch car gods beyond our comprehension who hate things like small animals and unclear roadways. This God blesses the car (and by proxy the driver) as the check engine light was due to its lack of blood lubricant.

        The comic is perfectly consistent, picnic.

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        17 hours ago

        One more time: Not all sacrificial offerings are personal sacrifices.

        The possum wasn’t rewarded because they didn’t choose to be hit by the car.