Reply To: The Torah is Emes

You seem to be assuming that the ancient Native Americans were less intelligent then Ancient people from Mespotamia. Do you have any reason or evidence to beleive this was the case?

I’m not sure when the Aztec became an organized culture so I’m not sure from when we can compare them to the ancients in Mespotamia, but since they were difinitely around at the times of the Greeks, I’ll do the comparing to them and onward.

While the Greeks sacrificed humans there were much rarer than the Aztecs. The Aztecs also were cannibals. They were much more primitive than the more relatively cultured Greeks and Romans.

The Aztecs practiced these exremely sadistic pagan rituals far longer than the Muslim or Christains which adpoted a religion that worshipped only one god, which was an advancement in human perception.

In addition, while the Aztec architecure of housing and temples was amazing it doesn’t compare to the Greek and Roman architecture of early times and many, many years later when the Spanish conquered the Aztecs they were way ahead of them with weapons, science etc. The fact is, that the Europeans were considered cultured while the Aztecs were primitives.

In addition there is absolutely no proof that the Aztecs actually EVER BELIEVED in the legend about the sun god. I doubt if a brutal culture would have let people voice their own opinions and ideas, just like any dictatorship forced their opinion on the masses or like communism enforced their ideoligy on people. People sometimes don’t have a choices in following ideological, cultural, or religious doctrines.

It would seem from looking at the history of what happnend that the Aztecs crumbled because they were KILLED OUT by the Spanish, other Indian tribes that helped the Spanish and diseases that were brought over on the boats from Europe. If you have any evidence that they abandoned their beleifs because simply because they stopped beleiving please post it. If anything it would seem from the fact that they spent so much time building temples and other religous actions that they took their religion quite seriously.

Let’s not speculate history. The FACT is that many Aztecs were forcibly converted to Christianity. None practiced their faith as Marronos, like the Jews did. In addition, between all the jungles and land, if the Aztecs really could have wanted they could have hidden and preserved their culure as the Jews in the time of the Maccabees. There is absolutely no way a small PART of the Spanish army (no country ever sent to America their entire army) could exterminate millions of people, even with the Indian’s help. Between the guns of a few Spanish soldiers, and the primitive bows and arrows from the Indians, it was impossible to exterminate all the MILLIONS of Aztecs.

The Nazis who were much technologiacly adavanced, between cyanide, machine guns, planes, submarines, vehicles, etc. and the force of their ENTIRE army, were able to exterminate millions of people. But the fact that the Aztecs were numerous in number and well defended against a small Spanish contingent of soldiers and the Indians primitive weapons and the ability to hide in the vast unpopulated jungles could have in no way totally killed out every single Aztec. It would rather seem that the Aztecs were tired themselves of their brutal regime and gave up the fight rather quickly.

If anything it would seem from the fact that they spent so much time building temples and other religous actions that they took their religion quite seriously

Building temples and following rituals mean nothing. There culture was one of fear and they HAD to do what was expected of them, otherwise they would be eaten for supper! (just kidding) It wasn’t a democracy where everyone could choose to do what they wanted to.