http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-blood-is-the-life The Holy Grail in history and in modern culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-blood-is-the-life#comment-9426 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:40:24 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/the-blood-is-the-life#comment-9426 [...] Here’s an interesting reflection from The Grail Code on the Aztec practice of human sacrifice. Christian writers among the Spanish conquerors, and some of the historians who followed them, have tended to dwell on the horror of human sacrifice in contrast to the Christian religion that replaced it. On the other hand, many recent writers treat the same subject as an irreducible fact of anthropology. We can neither condemn nor understand it, because the Aztecs were utterly different from us. [...] […] Here’s an interesting reflection from The Grail Code on the Aztec practice of human sacrifice. Christian writers among the Spanish conquerors, and some of the historians who followed them, have tended to dwell on the horror of human sacrifice in contrast to the Christian religion that replaced it. On the other hand, many recent writers treat the same subject as an irreducible fact of anthropology. We can neither condemn nor understand it, because the Aztecs were utterly different from us. […]

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