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To: auraur
Because so much of the written history we rely on today is from an Anglo-Protestant perspective, Spain's role in bringing the Christian faith to the new world is minimized by many early historians.

So the Aztecs were killing people to sacrifice to their gods...

And along comes Cortes; slaughtering men, women, children and babies so he can steal their gold and prescious metals, for the 'church', of course, and no doubt, plenty for himself...

This guy, thru his butchering, murdering, no doubt raping and obvious pillaging becomes a hero of the Catholic church...

And non-Catholics are derided for putting a negative slant on Cortes' and his church's mission...

We always find in Mary the perfect mediator between mankind and God.

This is a blatant lie, according to the God of Creation...So who would perpetuate such a lie but Satan???

3 posted on 12/02/2007 9:48:34 AM PST by Iscool
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To: Iscool
This is a blatant lie, according to the God of Creation...So who would perpetuate such a lie but Satan???

I have to agree with you that that's a pretty questionable thing to say, since it presents Mary's mediation as apparently not merely independent of Christ's (which it isn't) but superior to it (which is inherently impossible, since it is completely dependent upon it).

As to who would perpetuate (did you mean, "perpetrate"?) such a lie ... Catholics who are careless about how they phrase theological propositions.

I don't know of the authors of this piece. (I know who Jeff Cavins is, but he's not credited in the byline.)

And non-Catholics are derided for putting a negative slant on Cortes' and his church's mission...

You would find Aztec paganism preferable to conversion to Catholicism? A religion which killed tens of thousands of victims (by cutting out their hearts without benefit of anesthesia, BTW) just to dedicate a single temple?

A religion whose temples were so steeped in human blood that they literally stank of it?

A religion which had a shrine consisting of thousands of human skulls, each of whom had belonged to a sacrificial victim?

9 posted on 12/02/2007 2:38:24 PM PST by Campion
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