- Rack'em Up! -
Mankind has had a turbulent past as history and archeology can attest. In this dark past, humanity has killed for both religious and political reasons. The French Revolution, as other revolutions have, ended with the heads of French aristocracy under the guillotine. The Crusades of the middle ages was a religious movement that ultimately ended with many deaths for non-christians.
Recently, archeologists have been finding more and more evidence that the Aztec Empire and its people practiced human sacrifice under the auspices of religion. As more archeological sites of the Aztecs are discovered and excavated, a clearer picture of some of their religious beliefs and practices is emerging, ultimately confirming that the Aztec Empire did practice human sacrifice regularly. In the latest news to come out of Aztec archeology, researchers have found that the Aztecs had a collection of human skulls that numbered in the thousands and they housed all these human skulls in a ceremonial type rack or altar, called the tzompantli, that was as big as a professional basketball court and several meters high.
No human life should ever be lost to political or religious beliefs, unfortunately we can not change the past but we can learn from it. Now there is no right or wrong answer to today's Question of the Day but rather it is an open ended question meant to stimulate thought and conversation in light of the recent Aztec archeological findings and how they relate to our past, present and future.
Which is worse, Chopping heads for religious purposes as in sacrificial offerings or rolling heads for social/political revolution such as the beheading or lynching of a king, dictator or political tyrant? And Why?
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@streetstyle
How do you come up with this stuff :)) Chopping heads bro, wat?!?!
Okay, since I'm not a religious man you know what Ill pick... Hell, I don't wanna be a sacrifice one day.
Have a good one!
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hehehe @kid4life and no I am no psycho....hahaha... I just read that article on a new discovery of a huge Aztec altar made out of human skulls that were chopped off as human sacrifice to "appease the God/s." Link
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Hi @streetstyle, none of them in my opinion but could be more reasonable doing it by revolution because when there is revolution is because people is under a repression. Regards
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Well humans are the most important living life there is ti be in the world .The harm to any of us should not be there not in political or religious way.
After all both the things are for the human !
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I think killing for both causes is worse.
All the religion teach you peace and humanitarian behaviour with your fellow humans. I say no to killing whether it be for political reasons or religious
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Killing in any context is abarbaric act that violates every human being right to live. I may only accept killing of those who commited homicide not only as punishment but to make sure less killings would be commited later and this to be conducted by a fair and strict judicial system.
On the other hand, beheading people for religious considerations is far worse than for political ones because religious groups don’t kill only as a sacrifice but as punishment for what is considered by them worthy of killing like disbelieving, adultry, homosexuality. Moreover, at times of religious clashes members of each group coldly and wildly kill other groups’ members. The killing is done by anyone without even a trial. I red once that the largest number of wars and casualties throughout history is that of religious conflicts.
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I agree that killing for religion is based on "faith" or the lack of it, but then again so is a revolution. Although when revolting, the oppressed are removing the source of that oppression, but yet that action is ultimately based on an idea or belief that life will be better after the revolution. So in the end it seems that both actions are based on faith or belief (or the lack of that faith or belief).
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I don't believe that both are based on the same kind of faith, for not only the belief that life would be better after revolution doesn't necessarily incur killing. Moreover killing in religion is more of punishment and revenge even if a better life later doesn't require killing.
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hay algo peor y es cuando la politica se apoya en la religion para ganar seguidores
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Gracias por su respuesta @adrianachenille
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Hello friend in regards to a warm greeting and a fraternal hug, regarding your post I respond to your survey that today you left to your audience, I tell you that human life is one of the most important creations in the world, and none deserves the death of this way neither by religious question and much less political
Greetings thank you for sharing 🙈
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Killing for a religious purpose or a political social purpose is in my eyes the same. It's all ideology.
Basically i only think people are allowed to kill if you have to defend yourself to a life threatening physical attack.
Peace
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I was watching "Expedition Unknown" recently and they were uncovering many previously unknown preclassic Mayan megalithic structures, the interesting part was that the guy who is the lead archeologist on that project was also the consultant for Apocalypto, according to him pretty much everything in that movie is historically accurate.
The answer to your question depends on if you are on the chopping side or the side getting chopped.
Lucky for us we don't really have to be involved with that, we had a revolution yesterday when the Supreme Court chopped the head off the public unions which Jefferson warned were tyrannical.
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Human sacrifice in religious context can even be found in the Bible (although God stopped Abe from going through with it). I imagine this is indicative that human sacrifice occurred even before Abe, but ended, or at least God made it be known that he was now against it with the story of Abe and Isaac.
Unfortunately in today's modern world, humans are sacrificed in other ways such as through war and even corporate greed. So heads might not be landing in guillotine baskets, but today millions suffer and are sacrificed due to the greater tyranny of greed for money and lust of power.
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things have been trending in the right direction
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This is a great stat, and shows that War is not a major cause for global suffering, but there are other issues such as starvation and humanitarian need.
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This is probably the greatest time in history.
A lot of billionaires are doing just that but mostly the remaining starvation is due to communism, political unrest and war keeping outside organizations from preventing starvation. American billionaires can't really help those who starve in N Korea for example.
Or maybe they can.
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The reasons or motives to take the life of any person do not justify that it is a good action, since two bad actions do not add up to a good action ... defending an ideolagia is not the same as imposing it by force. I think both are unacceptable. ...
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We live in a free country, and everyone has their own personal convictions, the death penalty should not be at all. The Faith at all has its own. But for the revolution, only punish. Thanks for an interesting message...
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If your religion doesn't permit you to be a human first
Then you need to ask some questions
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Yup every human life is precious and not to be part of any voilance and learn from the past
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Couldn't agree more
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An excellent review and I think that it is not right to cut your head at all, especially for religion, but for a revolution, can choose another method. Thank you @streetstyle
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An interesting question @streetstyle and it seems to me that everything that happened in our history is connected with chopping off the head for the sake of religion or revolution, this is the wrong decision and it's good that in our time this is no longer happening!
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It happens that religion leads to a revolution, I think it's better to cut everything if it hurts society.
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Chopping the head for any crime,it is strongly abide by the Saudi Arabia ..strict rules must be decrease the crime,,i appreciate it,,
Thanks @streetstyle
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It's like killing people literarily or killing people physically which I think it's pretty much the same, however I think no human should be caught in a political dog fight of a king/ dictator, I think I rather bow out, as both still result to killings
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Interesting massage...different countries have different society and culture...religion is one of the fact nowadays....thanks for sharing your opinion.
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well we are human first we should remember this but the humanity values just get demolish when we get divided by the religion
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In my opinion. ..
I can not say one of them is good, because murder can not be justified, our job is trying to create peace
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i think chopping for religion is a most disgusting thing.
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I felt good to read your article.I just want to add a line as my comment.we are neither for religion nor for revolution.we are human being and want to live in this world peacefully.
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I think you catch the valuable point, there has most of cause of worse as political social and religion related.. we are getting pazzle if we try to solve out this problem..
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In humanity, chopping head couldn't measure as sacrifice. This called taboo!
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the life of a human being is not the only valuable thing is the fauna and flora that also suffer as a result of a war which should not happen less in the name of a religion or a political tendency but it is also clear that everything is written in the book sacred and justly we have free will to choose what to do and yet we become so radical in our beliefs that they lead to sad grieving comrades but that is how we use God in an era to kill in their name when the crusades and then we continue using excuses to be able want to demonstrate the power that a country has or even when we like the progimo simply because that person does not think equal to one , thanks for sharing your post with us is really good and I share your way of seeing the value of a life
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that's a awesome question..
Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral ... any other denomination because the King of England was the head of the church.Decapitation is the complete separation of the head from the body. Such an injury is fatal to .... The guillotine was used in France during the French Revolution,,Nice sharing @streetstyle
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i agree with you sir
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Great review sir.
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Good morning @streetstyle, I choose long life, I think everything depends on you, if you do not do anything, you learn nothing, nothing will be and that will be the inheritance for your children, if you do not want a miserable life, work constantly, fight for your dreams and learn from each day.
Happy day:)
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Great topic.
I will choose a short but satisfying life.
What the fun of living if you are not happy and satisfied. My life should include travel at any cost because travel is life.
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This is a hard question.
I believe in human religion.
But i can do that two think if this need.
Thanks for sharing sir @streetstyle.
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To impose the religion of one person over others or to increase religion.
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I think it is worse for religion..
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I forget what movie it was but there was that movie about the Aztecs years ago where they cut that guys heart out on the top of the temple as they were lopping heads off and letting them roll down the stairs. very disturbing
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I think you are referring to "Apocalytpo." Amazing how such a civilization that could build cities, pyramids and other structures that last millennia while developing a written language and mathematical concepts could be so cruel and unconscious of the value of life by committing such acts.
Yet, as I told another steemian, human sacrifice can even be found in the Bible. Although God ultimately told Abe not to go through with it, this almost implies that at one point humans did perform this act, and God might not have "said" anything about it until Abe and Isaac. This to me overall suggests that human sacrifice was on the table (sorry for the pun) thousands of years before the Aztecs and Mayan perfected the act with still beating hearts of their victims in their hands.
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This is fair for both ,,If there have any role,this will good for mankind so..
nice question @streetstyle
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Lose your head 🙅
In my opinion :
Nobody deserves to die like this, it would be one of the worst way to die, humans deserve to die of old age and not in this way neither by religion nor political aspects, thanks for sharing @streetstyle ..
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Religion is a private matter of man, one should not combine religion with politics. Let everyone believe what he likes and does not impose his private opinion on other people. Regards :)
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The first one man without think a lot because in this life it's better do what you want when you want that just follow the state laws. Regards
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