Posted on 10/11/2020 10:08:50 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Mexico’s president published an open letter to Pope Francis Saturday calling on the Roman Catholic Church to apologize for abuses of indigenous peoples during the conquest of Mexico in the 1500s.
In the letter, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador also asks the pope to lend Mexico ancient pre-Hispanic Mexican or colonial-era documents.
“The Catholic Church, the Spanish monarchy and the Mexican government should make a public apology for the offensive atrocities that Indigenous people suffered,” the letter states.
López Obrador asked the pope to make a statement in favor of Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico’s 19th-century independence leader who was once believed to have been excommunicated by the church for his involvement in the uprising. …
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That’s kinda like being asked to apologize for being white.
His Heart wasn’t in it ?
Inferior cultures conquered by superior cultures nothing to apologise for
The Aztecs had many indigenous enemies, the most important being the Tlascalans who joined the Spaniards.
The Aztecs were cannibals
And what percentage conquistador blood is the president of Mexico?
Pointless endeavors.
Hey eff that
No Christopher Columbus, no church and there is no you, no Latino’s, No Mexican’s, No Columbians No Puerto Ricans, No Trinidad, No Brazil, etc
No running water from a simple tap, no electricity, no penicillin, no gps, etc
grow up
Especially the tribes from whom the Aztecs had been capturing the humans for their human sacrifices.
This is all wrong but enjoyable given this Pope.
This would make a perfect Celebrity Deathmatch.
They forget that Cortez and his few hundred men had help from other locals to defeat the Aztec empire.
“No Christopher Columbus, no church and there is no you, no Latino’s, No Mexican’s, No Columbians No Puerto Ricans, No Trinidad, No Brazil, etc
No running water from a simple tap, no electricity, no penicillin, no gps, etc”
Ping
Nope
it might have happened way later but, that time in history made the development of the America’s possible and with it the necessary inventions to exploit the riches of the earth.
Cotton Gin, Air Conditioning, Geico....
How about López Obrador apologizing for Mexico’s former President Plutarco Elías Calles’ ruthless persecution of the Catholics in Mexico, the Cristeros?
If the indigenous people of Mexico had a bigger defense budget in the 1500s it would not be an issue.
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