Posts from World War III: what are your predictions?

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You demand that I provide facts and cite sources. However, you yourself make statements without backing them up with links. Personally, I didn't find anything in Hitler's biography that said he visited the Pope. You either made it up or got it wrong, most likely.

During the Crusades, religion could be the main cause of wars, but not today.

I must disagree with you; religion has simply become a less significant reason for wars, but it still carries weight.

she named a plush teddy bear Muhammad

Malassa, you should have given a warning and a negative rating for disrespecting another religion, and I would have certainly done so if...

Malassa... I can say the same about Christianity. It's not worth considering your faith to be superior, as that is a blatant lie. Almost every religion has cruelty and violence. And Christianity is no exception.

The Aztec religion was bloodthirsty, demanding countless human sacrifices. The Aztecs believed that the deities controlled the forces of nature and the actions of people. They depicted the gods as similar to humans, but gave them grotesque, monstrous features, sometimes animalistic. The sun god was considered the supreme deity, the source of all life. Priests greeted the sunrise with psalms and bloody sacrifices. The fearsome god of war, Huitzilopochtli, was particularly revered: this repulsive god, barely appearing in the world, stained himself with the blood of his own family: he beheaded his brothers and sister.

The Aztecs performed human sacrifices as follows. Four priests, painted black and wearing black robes, grabbed the victim by the hands and feet and threw them onto a sacrificial stone. The fifth priest, dressed in purple robes, used a sharp obsidian dagger to cut open the victim's chest and tore out the heart with his hand, which he then threw at the foot of the god's statue. The Aztecs practiced ritual cannibalism: the priests ate the heart, and the members of aristocratic families ate the body during solemn feasts. Almost every day was marked by a celebration of some god, so human blood flowed continuously. The cult of the god of fire was particularly gruesome. In his honor, the priests lit a huge bonfire in the temple of this god, and, having tied up military prisoners, threw them into the fire. Before they died, they were pulled out of the flames with hooks, placed on their backs, and they performed a ritual dance around the fire. Only after this did the priests kill them on the sacrificial stone. The Aztec religion spared not even children. Infants, bought from impoverished parents, were killed by priests with knives during droughts, in the hope that the god of rain would have mercy.

The Aztec state was constantly concerned with ensuring that the insatiable gods received sacrifices. A special group of warriors was dedicated solely to delivering prisoners to the temples. When Montezuma was asked why he tolerated the independent state of Tlaxcala in close proximity, he replied: "So that it would supply us with people for sacrifices to the gods." During the solemn consecration of the temple of the god of war in Tenochtitlan, which took place in 1486, 20,000 prisoners were killed, and 12,000 warriors died during Montezuma's coronation.
Historical facts indicate that mass human sacrifices were introduced by the Aztecs only at the beginning of the 14th century, when the tribal community had already disintegrated, and the ruling elite, led by the king, used the ancient ritual as a tool of terror to maintain power. Therefore, it can be argued that the terrible religion of the Aztecs was the religion of the Aztec aristocracy.

The Aztec religion showed no mercy, even towards children. Priests would kill infants, bought from impoverished parents, with knives during droughts, hoping that the god of rain would show mercy.

Moreover, I want to add that there is an opinion that the Aztecs excelled in astronomy and, with their numerous sacrifices, postponed the end of the world. Of course, as a Christian, I cannot accept this version, but I think that it also has the right to exist.