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Post by gameboy on Aug 21, 2018 2:41:21 GMT
Human history is one of conquest. The Aztecs also conquered and subjugated neighboring tribes. The difference is that Spanish Catholics did not rip out the heart of their Aztec subjects and sacrifice them to some pagan god as the Aztecs did to those they conquered. No, they just burnt heretics at the stake. If they confessed and repented to the ways of Catholicism, they got garroted first, otherwise they were burnt alive as sacrifices and all in the name of God. Catholicism DOES NOT get a free pass. No, no one gives Catholicism a free pass. I'm just saying all human religion is characterized by good and evil. It's silly and naive to think Aztec religion was any better on the issue of human rights than Catholicism. And Catholicism evolved to where today the Vatican condemns its own past mistakes. I doubt Aztec religion if it survived to this day would have stopped its barbarism if not for the influence of the Catholic Church. The indigenous people of Mexico are better off to day than they were under the Aztecs. |
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