| For exactly the same reasons Christan's are not acting the same way as they were 500 years ago. Society has changed and the expression of religion in society has also changed. This doesn't mean that either the religion or the nature of the people of the religion have changed.
An analogy can be seen in looking through a coloured lens. What you are looking at won't have changed, but what you see has changed. In the same way, society forms a filter for how we see the tennents of our religion (or whatever metaphysical perspective you substitute for religion).
In the case of sacrifices, orthodox teaching is that sacrifices require the Temple. Without the Temple, there are no sacrifices. Some Orthodox Jews teach that prayer is a substitute for sacrifices, until the Temple is rebuilt. Both prayer and sacrifice are seen as ways of approaching God.
If you want to argue a specific tennant of judaic law, then give us the scripture and we can look at how it can be interpreted. Other than that, the answer I've given is the best one I can give. |