I was thinking the same thing while reading, but I've got some additional comments:
Jesus ultimately sacrificed himself. Yes, the people were the ones who sentenced him to death, and Pontius Pilate was the one who decided to just let them do whatever they wanted, but Jesus had made the decision to sacrifice himself to save the world from sin. The people in the lottery enter their names because there's an unspoken rule that they have to. It's just something you do.
Also, in Christianity, Jesus was the first and last sacrifice to save the souls of others. The same group of people didn't get together the year after that and decide that a few Apostles had to go, too. In the lottery, the sacrifice of one person doesn't provide eternal happiness or salvation: it supposedly provides good luck for a year, then you have to repeat the ritual again the next year.
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Jesus ultimately sacrificed himself. Yes, the people were the ones who sentenced him to death, and Pontius Pilate was the one who decided to just let them do whatever they wanted, but Jesus had made the decision to sacrifice himself to save the world from sin. The people in the lottery enter their names because there's an unspoken rule that they have to. It's just something you do.
Also, in Christianity, Jesus was the first and last sacrifice to save the souls of others. The same group of people didn't get together the year after that and decide that a few Apostles had to go, too. In the lottery, the sacrifice of one person doesn't provide eternal happiness or salvation: it supposedly provides good luck for a year, then you have to repeat the ritual again the next year.
Sangrita, Slytherin