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The Curious Case of Cortes This book on the conquest of Mexico is complied from supposedly first-hand accounts. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the accounts are truthful, or disinterested. Cortes was himself in rebellion against his superiors and looked any day to be arrested. He wrote letters to the King of Spain, actually the Emperor Charles V, giving his side of the story and begging to be given official sanction. This might explain why he comes across so damn noble in the histories his own men wrote. One has to read between the lines here and there, catching contradictions and other hints. Cortes, and all the robbers, saw themselves as on a glorious mission for their Lord to actually SAVE the Aztecs from the fires of Hell...and, as already shown, they felt that even to kill an Aztec, if they saved his soul in the process, was God’s design....and, of course, SOMEBODY had to use the gold the dearly departed left behind. It was all so cynical and underhanded, filled with the same self-righteousness that we still see in Christian soldiers who attack innocent people and countries. What Cortes really hated was the human sacrifice and cannibalism of the natives. No doubt....but it has to be pointed out that Jesus Christ was also a human sacrifice and, dare we say it, his followers were ordered to feast on his flesh and drink his blood. Which, it is tedious to point out, yet again, was definitely NOT symbolic but actual, for according to the mandatory doctrine of Transubstantiation; what starts out as a wafer and wine is miraculously changed to the actual flesh and blood of Jesus...else where is the miracle of the Eucharist? According to Cortes, Montezuma, though taken prisoner by him, was actually killed by his own people....wounded during some confrontation. This is the first I heard of it. All other histories say that Cortes killed him. In any case, as Montezuma lay dying, Cortes and his chief priest begged him to save his soul... “It was to snatch his soul, and the souls of his people, from the flames of eternal fire by opening to them the purer faith, that the Christians had come to his land. And he earnestly besought him not to neglect the occasion, but to secure his salvation by embracing the Cross, the great sign of human redemption.” Though he lay dying, pestered by the very people who caused his death and the ruin of his empire... “But the doctrines were too abstruse in themselves to be comprehended at a glance by the rude intellect of a barbarian. And Montezuma may have, perhaps, thought it was no more monstrous to feed on the flesh of a fellow-creature, than on the Creator himself.” Oops. In other words they were all, Christians and barbarians, cannibals...the only distinction being which flesh was lawful to eat. The Aztec nourished both body and soul in his choice while the Christian, getting very little in the way of nourishment for his body, managed to nourish his soul with his portion of human flesh. Not much of a distinction. In fact the Aztec seems the more sensible of the two. In several places the chroniclers lament the superstition with which “barbarians” and “infidels” are filled. Naturally the Christian doesn’t see his own wild superstitions as such...to him they are “beliefs” and even “facts”. And so.... “More than one grave historian refers to the preservation of the Spaniards to the watchful care of their patron Apostle, St. James, who, in these desperate conflicts, was beheld careering on his milk-white steed at the head of the Christian squadrons, with his sword flashing lightning, while a lady, robed in white, supposed to be the Virgin, was distinctly seen by his side, throwing dust in the eye of the infidel! The fact (sic) is attested both by Spaniards and Mexicans....by the latter after their conversion to Christianity.” What better proof that religion is a disease than that the Mexicans claimed to have seen this amazing sight, at the time it occurred, but only AFTER they converted to Christianity. That isn’t superstition...on everyone’s part? Six months, or whenever, after the natives were in this battle, at a time when they failed to see this apparition, they THEN saw it...after it had occured???? After becoming Christian? How, exactly, would that work? Easy...they were all lying....but it was a lie for God...so it was holy and okay too. They already said that murder, in the service of the Almighty, was just fine...in fact, it wasn’t really murder at all but “salvation” of the infidel. The same with lying. It really isn’t lying if it wins over the infidel...or reinforces the faith of wavering Christians. In other words, every crime imaginable is acceptable, even desirable, so long as one claims to be committing it in the “service of God”. It would seem that God is the chief of a band of cut-throats...which, oddly enough, seems proven by history time and again. Cortes even comes out and says it..... “...the conversion of the heathen is the work most acceptable in the eye of the Almighty, and one that will be sure to receive his support. It calls on every soldier to regard this as the prime object of the expedition WITHOUT WHICH THE WAR WOULD BE MANIFESTLY UNJUST AND EVERY ACQUISITION MADE BY IT A ROBBERY.” (emphasis in the original) And, needless to say, every death a murder. And what would every rape be, without the Lord? Planting “his” seed? One wants to ask what business soldiers had with spreading religion in the first place. We see in this how Christian armies have ever justified their slaughters and robberies...all of it done in the service of their Lord. And they have the nerve to point the finger at Islam? While Christian historians point the bloody finger at their own....no Christian historian has been found to make these same claims against Islam. The only people making such claims are Jumblats and other Christian fanatics who even see Evil in their own relatives who would be fair and honest...and well-read. --------------------- |
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