Follow
A holocaust is a religious animal sacrifice that is completely consumed by fire, also known as a burnt offering. The word derives from the ancient Greek holokaustos, the form of sacrifice in which the victim was reduced to ash, as distinguished from an animal sacrifice that resulted in a communal meal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_(sacrifice)
Offerings to Yahweh in Jewish ritual recorded in the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud are done by fire.[38]
@shortstories Eisenhower referred to "holocausts" in one of his speeches I believe. Which would have been accurate as applied to the Christians that made up the bulk of the losses in WWII
