Jesus said very specifically to feed, clothe, and house people in need, and that even letting the poor live on your property and eat your food isn’t enough to keep you out of hell if you don’t actually keep them safe and fed enough. He REALLY insisted, he talked about prisoners rights repeatedly. I’ve never heard of a single church trying to improve prisoners lives. Not one. Someone did the math and discovered that if every building used for religious worship sponsored two people. Housed two homeless people, there would be no homelessness. That’s it. Two people. Now assuming just Christian churches would make those numbers harder, let’s go ahead and double that number even though that’s impossible because the majority of places of worship are Christian in the US by a lot more than 50%, but let’s just pretend it’s 4 people a Christian church. That’s VERY LITTLE EFFORT that would end all homelessness in America.

Try and build a halfway house anywhere in the US and what happens? Thousands of people suddenly are motivated to show up to town hall meetings and sign petitions!

What?

It’s a really good example of how abuse and evil can often be legal while doing what’s right can often be illegal.

Olympics testing sex means they will be testing women, and never men, it means they’ll come up with a test that requires different representatives of different competing nations to agree a woman doesn’t technically qualify as a woman despite her fully functioning uterus, and again they’ll be invasive and humiliating and poor countries will have twice or more disqualified athletes, they will go after women of color twice as hard, and the more extreme countries they send these women back to live in will treat these women horrifyingly bad.

Windfall and winnings are some of the most punitivly taxed gains in the US. They take a big chunk.

Remember the old guy they pulled out of a building, put explosives around his neck, made him clear buildings, then told him and his wife to evacuate and pointed them to the next group of Israelis so simply executed them on sight? None of what’s happing makes sense other than as total destruction of all people on the wrong side of the birth lottery.

There aren’t white farm workers in South Africa. Only black Africans are doing farm labor. So who is the ‘white farmer’? What does it mean? It’s the farm owner who gets all the product of the African farm labor and gives next to none of it to the farm laborers. Don’t try and condemn something you don’t understand.

They aren’t going to pick someone that isn’t in the room when they vote on it.

They are really unlikely to support a non cleric. All the decision makers sacrificed a lot of typical life time activities to be clerics, they aren’t going to lift up sometime who hasn’t also made these sacrifices.

People who want extreme ‘order’ are really good at organizing and fund raising, and breaking the law and daring the rest of us to do something about it. People who like making sure everyone has rights and those rights are protected aren’t.

“shed” try “bottom out” or “nosedive” or “crash” or “fell off a cliff into total oblivion” or “oh my god my retirement account!!” you know. be honest.

To some 20%-30% of the country ‘patriot’ means ‘whites only’. Honestly, if your so dedicated to being a patriotic American you can’t stand up to a government doing everything it can to destroy America, you’re just an idiot.

They said black refugees were eating people’s pets, when their lies were exposed they said they are allowed to lie to foment racist calls to action.

If you fail to resist a fascist police state you’re already dead.

Escalation is the point. People weren’t upset when police beat and harassed people.

Demasking them would clearly be the best measure for deterring them.

They’re all white supremacists, man. This isn’t a tyranny to them, it’s exactly what they want, they want anyone who isn’t white ‘self deporting’ in the face of cruel mistreatment, and the military and the rest of the government is deleting any mention of any historical person that isn’t a white cis het male. They have never been happier.

If it gains sentience will it love me?

Ending human sacrifice in many cultures can be seen in their more modern folklore, in the Bible people view ‘‘Moloc’’ as an evil god that children were sacrificed to. The reality is ‘‘Moloc’’ is the Hebrew word for sacrificing the first born child to Adonai. Once the practice was ended and seen as evil, it changed their stories.

the Maya creation myth in the 1500s had the hero twins tricking the death gods which allowed them to avoid human sacrifice, other cultures around the same time had versions where the hero twins obeyed the death gods without tricking them. So local stories from different groups will clue you in to how they view human sacrifice historically, if you understand the context of the stories.

You also have to keep in mind there’s no one Maya culture, it was always diverse city states Maya is more accurately a region than a people, they’re 20 some odd languages that all derived from the classical Maya spoken today in those lands, and still there are languages today that appear to not be derived from classical Maya, so there’s a lot more going on than one culture or history.

The powder keg situation the Spanish walked into in Tenochtitlan that allowed them to conquer the Mexica was due in part to clashing religious and cultural groups with in the Nahuatl speaking dominant groups, within the city were multiple ethnicities, languages, and cultures all coexisting, there simply isn’t one story and never will be.

There are descendants of Mexica and Maya that come from groups that didn’t do blood sacrifice, there’s groups where this was a very rare thing to do, and there’s motivations beyond what people accept, only recently are archeologists looking at temple grounds and finding remains there and realizing the remains of infants all have markers of illness or congenial problems that were likely fatal.

Imagine if a cathedral was discovered by an Asian archeologist who didn’t have information about the religious or cultural views of the people who used it, and finding an attached graveyard with the remains of hundreds of elderly and infant people decided that the cathedral was a place for the elderly and infants to fight to the death to amuse their evil Gods. After all they had human skeletons in armor with weapons on display and scary ugly monsters all around the outside, and cages at the top of the building with human remains on them.

It’s very easy to see other people’s culture as this extreme thing, when in reality we know some Maya city states only had fatal blood sacrifice very very rarely, or not at all, and that human remains near temples or in stone containers may not be from human sacrifice at all.

The report that thousands of people were continously killed this way came much more from the Spanish military and priests reports that were often justifications for brutal treatment or genocide, or simply culture shock. Keep in mind these same Spaniards lived in a time when torturing and killing Jews was commonplace, as well as burning women at the stake, burning Gay men to death, as well as public executions that could range from anything like drawing and quadering or boiling alive in water or oil, and impromptu killing of people on shackles if people in public pelted them hard enough with rocks or garbage, which were not even sure was historically the intent or accidental, and this includes killing children when witchcraft, or non Christian religions were involved.

They weren’t shocked about people being killed in elaborate religiously significant manners in public. They were shocked it was to give blood to a pantheon of gods, and that the person being killed wasn’t accused of anything or seen as evil or sinful enough to earn a death sentance.

Also as another interesting tidbit, Isabella, the Queen of Spain ordered Cortez to make contact and gather information and he was offically ordered to NOT conquer anyone, he made up those orders when he landed to seek his personal glory and wealth, the Spanish aristocracy of the day were against conquest and wanted to establish healthy trade routes, not colonize. At least not at first, and religiously, they wanted priests to preach in the Americas, and covert, but not with the sword, at least not specifically.

A lot of the atrocities committed by priests weren’t looked at as OK morally, and were not ordered to be done, but motivated by being able to report fast progress. They were looking for a shortcut home.

If you study the classical Maya on a university level the experts do agree the Classical Maya preferred aristocrat blood, this is why they had many ceremonies for bloodletting that was a form of non fatal blood sacrifice. Also aristocratic families did have children they intend to sacrifice. War captives were always a big part of Mesoamerican culture, as you can see from the only surviving codexies, and from the surviving stories and culture still a part of Maya culture, but they culturally valued aristocrat blood as the main need of the Gods. It’s not a controversial or debated aspect of their culture.

Finding good up to date archeological information on the Classical Maya is not easy. Little work has been done all together, and you’re unlikely to find good resources on the internet without actually getting into a universities research libraries, and the pop culture view of Mesoamerica in the US is deeply racist, colonialist, and based on Eurocentric and Christian ways of seeing the world, few people are interested in facts over ‘‘they killed the winner after ball games’’ and ‘‘they sacrifice 500 infants to dedicate a temple’’. It’s shitty.