LEFTARDS ATTACK!
Posted on 07/18/2006 7:45:03 AM PDT by Pokey78
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The Aztecs ate the "sacrifice" victims because they needed protein. Antropologist Marvin Harris writes of this. Aztlan.
Columbus decided to keep what he found secret, writing a secret letter to the Pope. The Pope endeavored his church to save the savages' souls.
Genesis 6:13: "So God said to Noah, "I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth."
(and Steyn is about the only reason I bother listening to Hugh Hewitt).
Hey!,...who's face is that I see on that birdcage liner?
Is that the,......HILDABEAST?!!! Good place for it.
Thank you, nice Photoshop. From your computer to the 2008 election.
What a loathsome creature she is.
> The Romans, at Cannae, lost 50,000 killed out of 80,000 men in a few hours. That is a much higher death rate than any of our bloody Civil War battles. Such losses were not uncommon in ancient warfare.
There's actually a good reason for that: it was face-to-face. When Side A met Side B in combat, they'd hack away at each other until Side A decided to call it quits. But Side B would be *right* *there*, and would hack 'em to bits when Side A turned to run. You simply couldn't escape the victor.
Then long range weapons became the order of the day. When Side A decided they were losing, they could turn and run and dodge behind trees and such much easier, since the enemy was now at some distance.
The mass extinction of large animals in North America being caused by the Clovis hunters is no longer dogma. It is highly debated.
Done.
Actually IMO nuclear weapons have done more to promote peace than anything in human history (including Christianity).
Look at history. Until the advent of nuclear weapons what two rivals such as The US and USSR would have remained at peace with each other for the time encompassing the end of WWII and the collapse of the USSR.
Mutual Assured Destruction worked and continues to work.
So, he was French after all?
They may have wanted or even craved meat, but they didn't "need" it because they were suffering from protein deficiency.
They had corn and beans which together make an excellent complete protein. Human meat was an elite monopoly, used more as a status symbol than anything else.
Many millions of people have gone their entire lives without eating meat. It isn't needed. (Although I like it a lot.)
The same thought entered my mind as soon as I read the piece. I was surprised that Steyn didn't include the quote from Hobbes. It would have made a perfect ending.
If I recall correctly, the Iroquois exterminated [absorbing the few survivors] the Erie Indians - so the Iroquois could control the fur trade with the whites. Kumbay - frickin' - ya.
Who in the end is more respected by the non Indians than he was by the Indians.
Especially when, as at Cannae, the loser managed to get himself surrounded, on an open plain, by an army about half his numbers. Quite a feat, that.
A great many men usually escaped from ancient battles, since the losers would usually divest themselves of their arms and armor, making them much faster than the victors. A guy toting 30 to 50 pounds just can't catch a guy who isn't.
Thus the importance of cavalry in killing as many of the runners as possible.
True. Prior to that it was an independent city-state, but Protestant, not Catholic, and generally in opposition to France.
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