Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

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  1. Zorro

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    Indeed. The Old Testament is filled with admonitions to completely shun the child sacrificing cultures the Hebrew people were surrounded by (I don't recall much on adult sacrifice) with horrific judgements visited on the Hebrews when they went through periods where they adopted these practices from their neighbors.

    Certainly human sacrifice and cannibalism are two things Western Culture walked away from a very long time ago and we are most certainly the better for these two advancements.
     
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    So the way you figure it, the difference between the carnage attributed to Hitler and that attributed to Stalin is comparable to the difference between murder and manslaughter. Have I got that right?
     
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    Like I said.......the Aztecs were practicing yoga and seeking world peace before the evil, barbaric White man showed up...
     
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    Correct. A song that was sung by the revolutionaries against the republic. Are you a revolutionary or a Tory?
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Agreed. Isn't condemning less advanced cultures akin to a Senior in HS student condemning his 5th grade brother for being stupid, primitive and a lesser human being?
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No, but you're getting warmer. Please keep working on it.
     
  7. Max Rockatansky

    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    As false as claiming the white men came with peace carrying a cross.
     
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    You really lost me.

    A revolution against which republic ???

    There weren't to many republics in the world back in 1776.

    Tories supported a monarchy and I don't bow or kneel to any person.
     
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    Max Rockatansky Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Which explains the song you quoted. They didn't either.
     
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    All known lyrics for the song "La Cucaracha" seem to be in Spanish, none in English except those translated from Spanish to English.

     
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    Because he is cheering the Spanish for outright deliberate genocide of indigenous peoples of the Americans - at exactly the same time in history of the Spanish Inquisition, which victimized hundreds of thousands of Jews including torture, mass murder etc., which possibly he also justifies by claiming some Jews in the past did evil things.
     
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    Absolutely correct.
     
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    JakeJ Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Wow, is that an ignorant statement. Is that supposed to be humor?
     
  14. Stonewall Jackson

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    And the Americans and Brits and Russians were efficient at killing and dehumanizing German human beings......think Dresden firebombed for no legitimate military reason......think 2 million German women raped, tortured and killed by the advancing Soviet Huns........think of the starvation camps the German military rank and file were put into by Eisenhower after the war..........war is hell
     
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    The Aztecs were apparently very familiar with the screams of the desperate and dying.

    The Aztec Death Whistle. Imagine hundreds of these being blown at once.

     
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    The Aztecs, Mayans and Incas were ruthless, barbaric people. Fortunately they lost the war to a far more advanced and generous European culture. Thus, you and I can live in a civilized society today........
     
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    You're attack on the actions on the Allies and defense of the Third Reich is noted.
     
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    ROFL. Okey-dokey. Agreed.
     
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    Your defense of the murder of a quarter million defenseless German civilians at Dresden and the rape, torture and murder of 2 million German women, including children, by our 'allies' is duly noted......not to mention their genocide of millions of Ukrainian Christians a few years before. Your 'outrage' seems somewhat selective.........
     
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    You are free to equate the fire bombing of Dresden with the mass executions of 11 million human beings in the Nazi death camps and I'm free to disagree.

    I will say this: If fascism comes to America, I'll be on the side of the resistance. If socialism comes to America, I'll be on the side of the resistance. I'll always be on the side fighting against those who are against our Constitution, foreign or domestic. I had hoped someone who uses the name of one of the South's greatest generals would think the same.
     
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    You frame the question badly, so lemme help y'out here: isn't condemning cultures which make murder a sacrament akin to a guy who once slapped his wife condemning Ted Bundy?
    Naw, I think I'll just go ahead and assume, until proven otherwise, that you're an apologist for Soviet atrocities.
     
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    Germans were NOT put into starvation camps by the USA.
     
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    Calling literally mass and even total genocide as "generous" is a pure sociopath claim.
     
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    delete
     
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    it was probably people that followed their leader like a cult member, anyone that said anything bad about their leader was fed to the gods and their people cheered
     
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