Posted by sigismund on October 4, 2013, at 14:46:20
In reply to Ameranglican ethnocentricism » sigismund, posted by HomelyCygnet on October 3, 2013, at 10:29:45
>Thirty percent of Ameranglos claim to have Amerindian blood.
This would not happen here, mutatis mutandis. But then the ideology changed over time. The Spanish were not racist as were the British in Australia. I suppose the US is somewhere in between.
I found the wearing by the warrior of the flayed skin of the victim as he goes around feasting and distributing body parts interesting. For about 5 days continuous perhaps. As you say, the Andean cultures were not so enthusiastic about sacrifice. I found that culture very warm in comparison to my own. A religion with sacrifice as the instrument of redemption......let me start again......it is easy enough to see the Holocaust as the action providing access to a belief system, fruit at the alter of the Fuhrer's genius, it seems so sacrilegious to even say what for a big enough minority was the case......but many Marxist Leninist governments were the same, utopian in nature with sacrifice required, as one might think of the wars then and since. There was an American theologian here talking about culture and bellicosity, I can only recall him talking about sacrifice and the need to make sure it was worthwhile. I don't know who he was, but not Spong. Need I add that Australia has been involved in every war since the Boer war. But the US was doing interesting things back then that I will have to read about.
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