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Fleet Aug 22, 2018 3:16:34 GMT clusium and The Herald Erjen like this

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Post by gameboy on Aug 22, 2018 3:16:34 GMT

Aug 21, 2018 8:46:47 GMT FilmFlaneur said:

Aug 20, 2018 6:39:32 GMT gameboy said:

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.

I am not saying the Aztec or any indigenous American culture was without merit.

I just want to temper those who portray the Europeans and the Catholic Church as nothing but brutes who unjustly trampled on others. Aztecs oppressed their neighbors. This is more a problem of humanity, all humanity, not just Aztecs, not just Europeans.

We can look now in hindsight though and see that it was the West who cured polio, and invented the computer with which we are now communicating, and the jet plane, and artificial limbs, and on and on. The Aztecs would never have reached this degree of success by the 21st century. We should put things in perspective before we paint the indigenous peoples as all good and the Europeans as all evil.