“Aztec savagery”
Savagery is savagery no matter the source. There is no such thing as righteous just savagery to combat savagery. A wrong does not right a wrong. It is hypocritical to even think so.
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 6:1
“If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless.” James 1:26
“Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?” Romans 2:3
I can read... There are many more explaining God does not approve of hypocritical self righteousness in his name.
Violence is the only answer in the face of pure evil, such as Aztec ‘society’, who believed human blood was required to satisfy their gods. We’re not talking about questionable acts like forced conversion of Muslims to Christians and so forth.
Judgment is the fruit of life, I do not subscribe to a philosophy of an absence of judgement. Not every religion or society is on equal terms.
Thank you for pointing that out-my ancestors came to the New World from the Spanish Pyrenees in the late 16th century and were common farmers, herders, etc-not nobility, they were not financially able to get a Spanish bride in the frontier areas they settled in. So they married local Native American women-we know some of those young women were Apaches, so little doubt a few were also their cousins, the Aztecs. In any case, they were better suited to farm and ranch life on the frontier that is now south and west Texas and New Mexico than a Spanish girl used to being in a town.
I have a cousin who is married to an archaeologist whose thing is the study of Paleo-Indian ruins, culture, etc- so I’ve read extensively about both my Spanish ancestors and the few Native ones-both were bloodthirsty, tortured people to death, raped, murdered and stole treasure from each other-the Spanish Inquisition was an abomination perpetuated in God’s name-no better than what Muslims did in the Middle Ages, or Mongols, etc.
Every group of people has practiced torture, ritual murder and cannibalism in the last 1000 years-those lily-white Druids did it, as well as other European people. They way I see it, neither Natives or Spaniards were people I’d call better than the other, but those were brutal times to live in-the conquistadors were NOT anything to “thank God for”-their methods of torture and death were just more refined than those of the natives-check out the way they not only murdered and enslaved Natives, but their own “common” people in both Spain and the New world-they considered them lesser beings. NOT nice people...
Now, please excuse me-I have to go sacrifice an enemy warrior and drink his blood...