Post by FilmFlaneur on Aug 21, 2018 8:46:47 GMT
the Catholic Church did not put pagans on altars and rip out their hearts
There is no logical reason why the actions you described, and the old South American gods to which they pertain, are not to be respected as valid any more than the purported deities and their rituals elsewhere in the world, your distaste notwithstanding.
Aztecs were barbaric savages who were going nowhere without Christian ethics and later, Western technology and medicine,
Some South American civilisations didn't go anywhere much after their encounter with the west either, since they collapsed in the years after first contact.