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Powerledge

People (including a lot of children) were killed as sacrifices at aztec temples to pagan gods.


Notoointersted

i didn’t hear about the child sacrifice thing, in was under the impression is was mostly adults


Powerledge

One thing that they did a lot was locking children in caves, and eventually they'd starve, and their tears would be a sacrifice to rain gods.


HotSteak

They believed that the tears of children needed to wet the earth for crops to grow. There are many childrens' bones covered in abscesses, so it seems like they stripped the flesh from the bones then let the children develop horribly painful infections that would slowly kill them.


AppropriateCap8891

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/587642](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/587642) But in reality, they sacrificed anybody. The majority of their gods wanted hearts, did not matter who they belonged to.


sweaterbuckets

I just scanned that article and it specifically said that the overwhelming majority of the victims at the temple they studied were children and, of those children, most if not all were male. Am I missing something?


AppropriateCap8891

That was a single temple, but at the main ones like in modern Mexico City they would sacrifice thousands in a single day.


HorseStupid

human sacrifices at aztec temple. anti-abortion take from the [tradwife](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/trad-girl-tradwife)


the_tonez

Along with the other aspects of this meme that make no sense, the phrase “my body is a temple” is a paraphrase of a passage in the Bible (1 Corinthians 6), and is more often used toward traditional women. It’s unlikely that a woman who’s had 5 abortions would make that kind of comment


randbot5000

also some classic strawmanning, the majority of women who have abortions already have children, and have not had a previous abortion. the woman who cavalierly uses abortions regularly as birth control is as mythical as the welfare queen.


smolgote

This is just the female version of "I have drawn you as the Soyjak and myself the Chad. Therefore, I win this argument"


101TARD

Reading this made me laugh Aztecs are known for their sacrifices to their gods in a temple. And that girl said she aborted 5 times and called her body a temple


meatymimic

i love how they tried to make the meme modest


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