Was Cortes right, as a Christian, when he tore down the pagan monuments in Mexico and replaced them w/churches
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I think Cortez went too far in his zealous attempt to spread Christianity.  He should have not destroyed the monuments.
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Yup, you got it, homey! \n\nAnd those same conquistadores and their ilk circumnavigated the globe and hit the Philippines, too! Same-o, same-o. \n\nThus, in the process, the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade began as they sacked, raped and pillaged all the natural resources of these countries FIVE CENTURIES AGO[!] and they brought back the treasures to Europe and Rome.\n\nBut, as an aside, it never ceases to amaze me how some of their 'faithful' UP TO NOW continue to be IN DENIAL and keep on protecting all the atrocities perpetrated by the Mother Church since the start of the Crusades. They don't realize that the Church's own HISTORY has nothing to do with FAITH at all!\n\nYet somehow they prefer to remain in darkness... until they open their eyes and begin to see.\n\nPeace be with you!
785681
I'm not familiar with the quote, but he is right in the sense that Christianity (at least in its current form) is not the same religion founded by Jesus.  Jesus was truly a wise man.  Personally, I think Thomas Jefferson was truly a wise man and very much doubt he is in hell (though I don't believe in hell anyway).
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You mean Christians ruin Christianity.  And I agree.  And also vice-versa.
933996
Absolutely not.\n\nThe Aztec religion taught that people had to be ritually sacrificed every day to ensure that the sun rose the next morning.\n\nMany religious teachings today are no better.
571811
Yes I agree completely.  Christianity is just a dangerous weapon used by leaders for power and control.
103787
Yes. It has caused so much suffering\n\nListed are only events that solely occurred on command of church authorities or were committed in the name of Christianity. (List incomplete) \nAncient Pagans\n\nAs soon as Christianity was legal (315), more and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian mob. Pagan priests were killed. \nBetween 315 and 6th century thousands of pagan believers were slain. \nExamples of destroyed Temples: the Sanctuary of Aesculap in Aegaea, the Temple of Aphrodite in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon, the Heliopolis. \nChristian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or Cyrill of Heliopolis were famous as "temple destroyer." [DA468] \nPagan services became punishable by death in 356. [DA468] \nChristian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had children executed, because they had been playing with remains of pagan statues. [DA469]\nAccording to Christian chroniclers he "followed meticulously all Christian teachings..." \nIn 6th century pagans were declared void of all rights. \nIn the early fourth century the philosopher Sopatros was executed on demand of Christian authorities. [DA466] \nThe world famous female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was torn to pieces with glass fragments by a hysterical Christian mob led by a Christian minister named Peter, in a church, in 415.\n[DO19-25] \nMission\n\nEmperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded. [DO30] \nPeasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay suffocating church taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women and children slain 5/27/1234 near Altenesch/Germany. [WW223] \nBattle of Belgrad 1456: 80,000 Turks slaughtered. [DO235] \n15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987 villages plundered by Knights of the Order. Victims unknown. [DO30] \n16th and 17th century Ireland. English troops "pacified and civilized" Ireland, where only Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts lived without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of their goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing." One of the more successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the heddes of all those (of what sort soever thei were) which were killed in the daie, should be cutte off from their bodies... and should bee laied on the ground by eche side of the waie", which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused "greate terrour to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde".\nTens of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage. [SH99, 225] \nCrusades (1095-1291)\n\nFirst Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II. [WW11-41] \nSemlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain. Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96 thousands. [WW23] \n9/9/96-9/26/96 Nikaia, Xerigordon (then turkish), thousands respectively. [WW25-27] \nUntil Jan 1098 a total of 40 capital cities and 200 castles conquered (number of slain unknown) [WW30] \nafter 6/3/98 Antiochia (then turkish) conquered, between 10,000 and 60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl. women & children) killed. [WW32-35]\nHere the Christians "did no other harm to the women found in [the enemy's] tents - save that they ran their lances through their bellies," according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of Chartres. [EC60] \nMarra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed. Because of the subsequent famine "the already stinking corpses of the enemies were eaten by the Christians" said chronicler Albert Aquensis. [WW36] \nJerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40]\n(In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour
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Well, history verifies my theology, (Christianity), so I'm not sure how to respond. One supports the other in my case.\nEDIT:\nHistory is HIS STORY
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I went on a mission trip to Mexico recently, and while I was there we went to a Mexican church. It was AWSOME! We didn't understand everything they said, but we knew that we were worshiping the same God. It was really cool.\n\nThey did some stuff differently but when they went to praise God we could feel His presence. We knew we were with fellow Christians and it was awsome.
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ummm nope. b4 yes. i thought he was. but come to think of it. his great deeds were not been apreciated by the present filipinos. why? because his bad deeds had more weight. but past is past. i think Garcia is the best. his policies and in that time the economy (currency) of the philippines is much much better than today.
975001
Well I look at it this way. The christians stopped mass killings of Muslims after the last Crusade, the muslims never stopped mass killings since the Crusades.
964522
I believe that he would.  Jesus was a definite  liberal of his time.  In my opinion, the introduction of the words sin, hell, and satan did not come from the man, Jesus.
647855
This is just one of many ideas that people can misuse.\n\nI believe that Christians are supposed to obey the laws of the land unless and until those laws contradict God's laws.  Currently there aren't any civil laws that fall under that category for me.  It's one of those hypotheticals.  This is the first case I've heard of that used that idea as a defense.\n\nI don't know enough about both sides to speak to whether he was justified or not.  The courts unfortunately, because they are so overloaded, often send children back into homes that are really still unfit.\n\nStill, based on what they showed on the segment I saw, he didn't seem justified to me.
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no it was christians who had crusades who killed indiscrimitaly and took their land who really started with terroism. the cathlic church burning and torturing people to convert have killed more people than any muslim nation. I am cathlic so I know our history.
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This has not one thing to do with Christian.  They can come and go as they please. There are legal ways to do it. ANY country has legal entries.\n\nThis is not  Amexerica, last I checked.\n\nIf Atheist mexicans want to come here, that's fine, there is a proper way to do it.\n\nGOD Himself has rules, lets see if you break His, where it gets you.\nEverything has rules. If you can't follow rules,\nyou may be followed with Night-Vision* scope.  Your dumb enough to play a sneak game, be dumb enough to die for what you believe in.\n\nNow, lets get back to these CHRISTIAN mexican's sneaking in?\n\n\nYour turn......................
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Oh I'm not so sure about that! Have you read George Washington's personal history about how the Constitution came about? And what about all those Christians who left their homes for the New World so they could have freedom of religion?  \nMaybe he's still at it and people just don't want to give him credit where credit is due!
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ummmm..... I think you may be confused....  The Church of England is an establishment (like the Catholic Church, for example), not a building.  So you can't really tear something down from the top of it if it's not a physical structure....   Also, the English Civil War started in 1642, not 1648.  It ended in 1648