re: #10 CuriousLurker

I don’t need to study your mythology. Just go to Saudi Arabia or Iran and declare that you are no longer muslim and see how long before a council of men who know the Koran and the Hadiths far better than you will gleefully order your execution.

If the Aztecs had been atheistic, they would not have been sacrificing people at all. Gruesome punishments for violating senseless laws, maybe but that would just make them human.

I find all religions contemptible. They soil the actions of good people and encourage the evil deeds of the wicked. If you only do good things with thoughts of some sort reward after you die you are a sad sort of person.

Did I generalize about anyone at all? No I just state over and over that religion is terrible. That has nothing do do with the people that are inflicted with whatever set of myths that they believe.

I could have said that you can easily use the Christian Bible to justify chattel slavery, and you can, would that make me guilty of insulting Croatians because they happen to be mostly Christian? No, that would be silly just like insisting that me that pointing out that human sacrifice was a feature of Pre-Colombian Mesoamerican religion is somehow generalizing about Mexicans is ridiculous.