09-11-2008, 07:08 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Sep 11 2008, 07:01 AM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Sep 11 2008, 07:01 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->American Holocaust
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Thank you for inadvertently recommending me a good book. As I was reading the synopsis of the book on Amazon, what struck me was how modern followers of Jesusism have completely twisted the meaning of events in history.
If you saw that Jesusism propaganda movie, Apocalypto (by drunkard and anti-semite Mel Gibson), (SPOILER) the fugitive Jaguar Paw is timely saved in the end from the evil Mayans by the newly arrived Spanish bearing crosses.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->4. The Spanish arrive as if to save the Maya from themselves. After enduring two hours of horrific violence, in the last minutes of the film, we witness the miraculous rescue of the film's hero Jaguar Paw from his stalkers by the appearance of Spanish galleons off the coast. This short, final scene shows dour Spaniards approaching the mainland in boats bearing Christian crosses across still water. After forcing his audience to endure two hours of horrific violence, Gibson uses this placid scene allow the movie-goer a sigh of relief in the hopes that these European Civilizers have arrived to make order out of the Maya mayhem. By ending his film there, Gibson ignores the far greater genocide to befall the Maya. In fact, within a hundred years of conquest, the Spanish were responsible for killing between 90 and 95 percent of the Maya population through disease, warfare, starvation, and enslavement.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1217-24.htm
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Thank you for inadvertently recommending me a good book. As I was reading the synopsis of the book on Amazon, what struck me was how modern followers of Jesusism have completely twisted the meaning of events in history.
If you saw that Jesusism propaganda movie, Apocalypto (by drunkard and anti-semite Mel Gibson), (SPOILER) the fugitive Jaguar Paw is timely saved in the end from the evil Mayans by the newly arrived Spanish bearing crosses.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->4. The Spanish arrive as if to save the Maya from themselves. After enduring two hours of horrific violence, in the last minutes of the film, we witness the miraculous rescue of the film's hero Jaguar Paw from his stalkers by the appearance of Spanish galleons off the coast. This short, final scene shows dour Spaniards approaching the mainland in boats bearing Christian crosses across still water. After forcing his audience to endure two hours of horrific violence, Gibson uses this placid scene allow the movie-goer a sigh of relief in the hopes that these European Civilizers have arrived to make order out of the Maya mayhem. By ending his film there, Gibson ignores the far greater genocide to befall the Maya. In fact, within a hundred years of conquest, the Spanish were responsible for killing between 90 and 95 percent of the Maya population through disease, warfare, starvation, and enslavement.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1217-24.htm