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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
Virtue is sacrifice, you don't sacrifice virtue... And the whole death/rebirth thing is pretty universal... you have to suffer to perfect yourself, so it goes. Insofar as God is love and love is outside of space and time, no, God can't die. But insofar as love can find a human shell and turn it into something divine that shell can and probably will die.
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You can say sacrifice is a virtue. However, saying virtue is a a sacrifice makes it seem a bit more absolute. As far as I know, there is no rational basis in the idea that self-sacrifice is a virtue.