The Catholicist Nation

• Cain's sacrifice of Abel. This is the quintessential motivation behind human sacrifice: Rank pride.
• Murder of another based on hate, fear, protection of tribal honor (from gang warfare to geopolitically motivated warfare)
• Sending people into war, acceptance of standard number of casualties.
• Suicide bombing.
• Fostering an entire cultural environment in which suicide bombers are recruited, such as that in the more radicalized Islamic areas of the Middle East.
• Abortion.
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
• Cloning. While not yet fully realized, therapeutic cloning (in more technical terms "Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer"),  the making of clones for instrumental purposes, is rife with human sacrifice possibilities.
• Euthanasia. Many times softened with "mercy" rationalizations and accompanied by "quality of life" casuistry.
• Population Control * / Eugenics / Institutionalized Sterilization Programs. It is hard to believe that as late as the mid-1900's many Americans were fully invested in eugenics programs and whole organizations were humming along to make sure we were all protected from people such as the "feebleminded."
• Suicide.
• Capital punishment.
• Fascination with death. Essentially being a "lookie-loo," morbid voyeurism, obsession with videos like Faces of Death or hyperviolence in film. This also includes televising and viewing car chases, a few of which involve the deaths of innocent bystanders or the police shooting to death the driver.
• Physical "medical" experimentation on humans, particularly that conducted on incarcerated felons, orphans, mentally or physically handicapped individuals, soldiers, or racial "inferiors." When the subject does not die but suffers, this is a form of partial sacrifice.
• Abusive treatment of confined individuals, particularly severe mentally disabled patients that often enough leads to their deaths.
• Blatant carelessness in protecting workers from hazardous working conditions. Coal mine conditions are particularly deplorable, even in the United States.
• Poisoning from environmental toxins causing malignant cancers, and the blatant failure of the medical community to properly prevent and treat such conditions.
• Institutionalized exploitive sabotage of a society, driving people to migrate in lethally hazardous conditions leading to their deaths. Examples include Mexico from which migrants risk death in the desert to enter the U.S, and African countries from which migrants risk death at sea to enter Europe.
• Gross negligence of infrastructure or habitat management. Often natural events considered extremely destructive result in huge casualty numbers that could be avoided if a nation's leaders did the simple job of properly arranging where people may live and enforcing simple guidelines regarding what they live in.
• Civilizations that have practiced ritualistic religious sacrifice, such as the Aztecs cutting the hearts out of victims and holding them up to their god. History is rife with such. Parents ritualistically sacrificing their own children is particularly repulsive.
• Occult sacrifice.

• Slavery. Indeed any of the following is truly some form of slavery. The most commonly conceived form is holding someone under forced labor with no pay. 
• Exploitation of anyone's labor with substandard pay, such as employment of workers in a "sweat shop." *
• Human trafficking.
• Kidnapping. While quite insignificant in the U.S, this crime is epidemic in other parts of the world.
• Usury. Making a claim on one's productive capacity by manipulating his coveting. Fractional reserve banking administered by a central bank such as the Federal Reserve does this.
• Engagement in confidence operations. This can be the base "Gimme some money up front here and you'll get more after I go get it" kind of scam, or it can be as elaborate as a finely sophisticated Wall Street fund management/investment opportunity.
• Exploitation of one's own victim status. Because so many feel such great pathos about the unjustly victimized individual, that individual frequently takes advantage of that by insisting on being cared for by others. Putting oneself into bankruptcy then claiming that it couldn't be helped is an example.
• Addictive behavior. Being so obsessed with something to window-dress one's sin that the consumption of said item slowly destroys the individual.
• Sexual promiscuity. By having a number of sexual partners, one takes a measure of the substantive spiritual essence of another through something that should reflect genuine intimacy. In the same way he/she gives away part of their essence to another. After a while, a great deal of the abuser's value is stripped.
• Sporting events in which the combatants are injured. When such contests end in death such as those involving gladiator spectacles, it is complete sacrifice. The popular sport most close to this kind today is boxing.
• Gambling. From where does one gain winnings but from others convinced they can gain from others? Casino operations rig the system so they automatically get a substantive cut.
• Reality shows and reality talk shows (common in the early 2000's were those hosted by Jerry Springer and Ricki Lake). These are nothing less than invitations into voyeurism and expose those on display to what really amounts to emotional and spiritual rape.
• Self-mutilation — tattoos, body-piercings.
• Sado-masochism.
• Physical dismemberment.
• Penance is a form of masochistic sacrifice — the idea that pleasing a god must come from enduring some painful self-inflicted treatment. This is one of the more pronounced modes of absolution, reflected in some form by all world religions.
• Internment as punishment. Indeed virtually every form of state sanctioned penalty such as fines or "community service" could be considered a form of partial sacrifice.
• Tax and tithe confiscations. A church that demands tithes is appealing to the law, is using guilt as a manipulative device, and is doing the very same thing a potentate does when extracting tribute from his constituents.
• Debasing the currency. Money is merely a tangible value assignment of a person's talents. Inflation frequently if not habitually initiated and sustained by powerful political or financial interests is a very real form of human sacrifice.
• Codependence motivated philanthropy. Often proudly showcased and encompassing billions of dollars, the key is keeping people in a state of perpetual neediness for the purpose of boasting about how giving people are.
• "Pork barrel" spending by a legislature. Government offers hundreds of subsidies of some form to engender dependence. Those payouts are funded from tax revenues carved from the productive capacity of the people.
• Current receipt social security programs. Many years ago pagan cultures endorsed child sacrifice. Social Security is nothing other than partial child sacrifice when the older population forces its younger population to finance their "retirement."
• Raising revenue through litigation to provide services to those injured by defendants. This is the case during the 1990's with the tobacco settlement in which states received hundreds of billions of dollars from tobacco companies in order to provide medical care for lung cancer patients. For the state to continue to provide nice things for its people, it must continue to have people smoking so the tobacco companies can keep paying for the white hats and horses of the white knight government agents in order to save the people from their own destruction.
• Excommunication. Some form of venomous ostracism from the group is particularly effective. Modern gangs have an adolescent form of this that goes so far as to physically pummel those who leave the "tribe."
• Roman Catholic Mass.