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Cael J. Amari's avatar

I have Aztec ancestors in one line of my family.

I also had to do heavy research into the history of the Aztecs to write a high school history curriculum unit on them. I could not include a lot of what I learned: the Aztec culture and religion was bloodthirsty and cruel in a way that many Westerners, in our domesticated, nanny state, pathologically safety-conscious existence, cannot fully process as real.

I have zero qualms about the destruction of Aztec culture and religion as they stood at the time of Cortez.

History is hard to see properly, and often distorted, and there are perpetual layers of lies to cut through. But as I understand it, the Aztec Empire was a perpetual horror show, and overall I'd call it a huge net positive that it was brought to ruin.

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Drexel King's avatar

And I’m over here thinking Christ can redeem all things. So some cultures and thus some men, some lands, some thoughts are not redeemable? And who gets to decide who meets the standard of redeemable?

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