Posted on 09/02/2006 1:28:10 PM PDT by wagglebee
I'm sure it irritates the left to no end to admit that the "indigenous" people were not exactly peace loving.
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So the Spanish came and "imposed their culture" on these human-sacrifing, torturing peoples. Kind of like we are doing in the middle east?
Come on. We can't be judgmental. Maybe the Muslims were inspired by such child sacrifice.
oops,,,sacrifing=sacrificing. Should have just said "uncivilized"!
That just about sums it up.
But who taught the Muslims to be pedophiles.
Kinda like LOREDO...?
Celebrate diversity.
Yes, the arrival of evil Western civilization's influences caused all this - and by extention, it's all President Bush's fault!
I had an interesting feeling when watching the PBS series "Conquistadores"
with host Michael Wood.
Wood described how Cortes and some of his officers were taken to the
killing room at the top of one of the temples.
Montezuma tried to give Cortez and his buddies a lesson in Aztec theology,
explaining how well ripping the hearts from their victims made the Sun happy
and kept the world going round.
The speech was obviously intended to sell Cortez on the Aztec worldview.
Wood related at how absolutly angry Cortez and his buddies got when they
heard this "Isn't sacrifice by ripping out hearts GREAT!" speech.
And I thought of how absolutely angry I got in the days following 9-11.
And how, even if you aren't a noble person (like Cortez) and you come
from an imperfect society (like 1500s Spain)...
you can still spot the savages.
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I've always thought that if someone is recommending sacrifices, then they should be first in line.
Re: Hillary "We're going to take things from you for your own good".
btt
And yet, somehow as a Spaniard, 500 years on, I am supposed to feel sorry and ashamed that my forebearers brought these people Civilization and Christianity? Sorry libs, European Civilization and Christianity is the highest of Human acheivement.
I read an awful lot of negative ajectives in this article. Where is the tolerance and appreciation for multicultural diversity? I mean, who are we, after all, to judge much older nations and their cultural practices. For an upstart nation only a few hundred years old, we certainly could learn a lot from the elder wisdom of a people living much closer to our mother the earth than we do. The problem with the European Judeo-Christian experience is that it critically judges the entire world from its own perspective rather than learning to accept the totality of human experience as a rich resource to respect and learn from.
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Why should it? They call the muslimes peace loving.
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