Praying in the Capitol rotunda, Lauren Boebert stated that Jesus "went to hell in our place."

[orthoclad]

125. The scapegoat

Very ancient fertility myth having to do with the rebirth of life in Spring. Eternal life via the cycles of the year.

Basically, in ancient agricultural societies, a Year-King would marry the Goddess/matriarch after last year's King was sacrificed, chopped up, and sown into the fields for fertility. Then a new Year-King would marry the matriarch. At some point an animal like a goat was substituted for the sacrifice. This myth shows up in modern stories like The Wicker Man and songs like John Barleycorn Must Die, and, of course, Christianity, which co-opted the pagan myths when Rome created it at the Council of Nicaea.

This is oversimplified and likely inaccurate somewhat, but hey, the Old Testament was full of vegetable, animal and human sacrifice. That's why they call them Abrahamic religions, after Abraham's sacrifice of his son. Something weird about the desert environment, I think, that installed patriarchy as monotheism.

Personally, I like the line about love being the whole of the Law.