POSTMODERN CULTURAL RELATIVISTS WRONG AGAIN: THE INQUISITION WAS NOWHERE NEAR AS BAD AS REGULAR AZTEC RELIGIOUS PRACTICE

A postmodern cultural/historical/cultural relativististic leftist this comment at a thread on my post STEPHEN HAWKING: IDIOT.

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Europe at that time was no more or less savage than the savages they encountered they just wore knee britches & silks rather than feathers & animal skins.

Yes the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice, as opposed to the various European empires that just warred on endlessly over land over succession over religion, burning heretics and witches.

Remember later Isabel & Ferdinand would force the Jews and Moors of Spain to convert, leave or die.

This is not propaganda this is history.

This is pure postmodern rubbish.

Here are the facts:

INQUISITION:

Henningsen-Contreras statistics for the period 1540-1700

Tribunal

Number of preserved relaciones de causas from the period 1540-1700[79]

Number of trials in causa fidei reported in the preserved relaciones de causas[80]

Estimated number of all cases in the period 1540-1700[81]

Executions in persona reported in the preserved relaciones de causas[82]

The actual number of executions in persona in the period 1540-1700[83]

Total

1531

44674

~87000

826

At least 1080

IN SUMMARY: OVER 160 YEARS, THE AWFUL HORRIBLE HORRIFYING SPANISH INQUISITION KILLED... ABOUT 1110 PEOPLE.

THAT'S ABOUT... HMMMM 7/YEAR.

THE AZTECS WOULD RIP THE HEARTS OUT OF 50,000 PEOPLE IN ONE DAY. ON AVERAGE, MAYBE 250,000 A YEAR.

Estimates of the scope of the sacrifices

For the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs reported that they sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days, though there were probably far fewer sacrifices. According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.^[32] The higher estimate would average 14 sacrifices per minute during the four-day consecration. As a comparison, the Auschwitz concentration camp, working 24 hours a day with modern technology, approached but did not equal this pace: it executed about 19,200 a day at its peak. (Note: the limiting factor for the Nazis was not killing people, but efficient disposal (cremation) of the bodies.^[33] Four tables were arranged at the top so that the victims could be jettisoned down the sides of the temple.^[34] Nonetheless, according to Codex Telleriano-Remensis, old Aztecs who talked with the missionaries told about a much lower figure for the reconsecration of the temple, approximately 4,000 victims in total.

Michael Harner, in his 1977 article The Enigma of Aztec Sacrifice, estimates the number of persons sacrificed in central Mexico in the 15th century as high as 250,000 per year. Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl, a Mexica descendant and the author of Codex Ixtlilxochitl, estimated that one in five children of the Mexica subjects was killed annually. Victor Davis Hanson argues that a claim by Don Carlos Zumárraga of 20,000 per annum is "more plausible."^[35]

SO DON'T TELL ME THAT WESTERN CIVILIZATION OR EUROPEAN COLONIAL POWERS WERE JUST AS BAD AS THE AZTECS.

THAT'S POMO RUBBISH.

IT'S PROPAGANDA, NOT HISTORY. HEH.

AND ANOTHER THING:

• THE FOLKS WHO MAKE THIS ANTI-WEST/CULTURAL RELATIVIST ARGUMENT ALWAYS BLAME US, THE WEST, AMERICA, ANDJUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION.

• IT THE BLAME AMERICA FIRST CROWD. THE POSTMODERN LEFT.

• THIS IS THE SAME CROWD WHO STATES THAT IRAQIS WERE BETTER OFF UNDER SADDAM.

WELL, SADDAM WAS WORSE FOR IRAQIS THAN THE KKK WAS FOR BLACKS.

SADDAM KILLED ON AVERAGE 80,000 IRAQIS A YEAR. FOR A FEW DECADES.

(LINKS HERE AND HERE.)

According to The New York Times, "he [Saddam] murdered as many as a million of his people, many with poison gas. He tortured, maimed and imprisoned countless more. His unprovoked invasion of Iran is estimated to have left another million people dead. His seizure of Kuwait threw the Middle East into crisis. More insidious, arguably, was the psychological damage he inflicted on his own land. Hussein created a nation of informants — friends on friends, circles within circles — making an entire population complicit in his rule".^[7] Estimates for the number of dead in the Iran-Iraq war vary from 500,000^[8] to 1.5 million.^[9] Others have estimated 800,000 deaths caused by Saddam not counting the Iran-Iraq war.^[10]

WELL, ER UM... FROM 1865 TO 1965, THE KKK LYNCHED AND MURDERED 7900 BLACKS - A HORRIBLE AMOUNT, BUT NOT 1% OF WHAT SADDAM DID IN ONE TENTH THE TIME.

I AM NOT DEFENDING EITHER THE HORRIBLE INQUISITION OR THE EVIL KKK.

I AM ATTACKING THOSE WHO WOULD DEFEND AZTECS BY EQUATING THEM WITH THE INQUISITION, WHO ATTACK THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL POWERS AS BEING WORSE THAN THE INDIGENOUS EMPIRES, AND THOSE WHO WOULD RIGHTFULLY ATTACK THE KKK, BUT THEN EXCUSE SADDAM.

WHO DOES THIS ALL THE TIME?

THE POSTMODERN LEFT.

THEY ARE UNPRINCIPLED AND/OR MISINFORMED.

Or as Reagan said; it's not that they don't know anything; it's that everything they know is wrong.