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Once dismissed as fake, Maya calendar is Americas’ oldest manuscript
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- nl 10y agoFor those who aren't aware, the Catholic Bishop Diego de Landa burnt almost the entire written history of the Maya in 1562. http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=1896 http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=1896 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa#Suppression_of_Maya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_Landa#Suppression_of_...
- contingencies 10y agoISIS and Taliban eat your heart out... the Catholics perfected religious extremism centuries ago.
- berntb 10y agoLots of things disappeared around Christianity -- the Dionysos cult and all the Roman/Greek worship, the druids, the Asa religion, Catharism, etc, etc. The Christians stopped supporting that type of thing after they lost most of their worldly power. Now it is just the rest of the murderous and intolerant religions and ideologies left...
- fit2rule 10y agoChristians are still calling, regularly, for the blood of their enemies. Don't kid yourself that there aren't Christians who believe the society and its powers that they created shouldn't be used to perpetuate their religion. States all over the world have to deal with this extremism..
- berntb 10y agoNews to me, despite that I think Dawkins is soft on religion. :-) Which Christians -- and where -- are calling for the blood of their enemy because of Christianity? How many are killed? Google tells me it was eight people in total regarding abortion clinics in the US. Over decades. (Edit: I can tell you that the main Swedish church refuses to criticise the people oppressing, murdering and expelling Christians from Gaza and Egypt. They criticize Israel literally thousands of times more. This seems to be more because they were pirated by left wing extremists than by nazi influence.)
- nl 10y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/tens-of-thousands-of-muslims-flee-christian-militias-in-central-african-republic/2014/02/07/5a1adbb2-9032-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/tens-of-thousand... We could talk about the Balkans wars too if you'd like. Or the NLFT in India. Sadly I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.
- berntb 10y agoThose are rounding errors if you compare with the 30 year war, the Huguenots or what Cromwell did on Ireland... Or that the total non Muslim population is being forced out of the Middle East right now! The Central African Republic was revenge for what a Muslim militia did -- "Those evil groups are taking revenge in the same way we did to them!" Seriously... that is the worst you have? :-) From your own article: "... the former Muslim rebels, known as Seleka, who carried out deadly attacks on Christians after they grabbed power in March, prompting the birth of Christian militias called the anti-balaka, or “anti-machete” in the local Sango language. The armed vigilantes have used the power vacuum to step up assaults on Muslims." And civil wars have always been incredibly horrible and dirty. The Balkans were also more ethnic than anything else -- and not exactly one sided either. :-( According to Wikipedia, that Indian group had less than a thousand members. In total. That is a joke, compared to European history. (Or what goes on in Pakistan and Afghanistan today, for that matter. Check percentage Hindu of the population of Pakistan and Bangladesh over the last 50 years; it is not only the Middle East.)
- jordigh 10y agoAmericas'? America's.
- aaronbrethorst 10y agothe Americas: North, Central, and South.
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- jordigh 10y agoNot if you ask someone from Mexico like myself. And since this is a Mexican heritage thing we're talking about here... The whole America-means-US thing didn't happen until well into the 19th century.
- ocb 10y agoThis has always been puzzling to me. Is it not just more-or-less a linguistic thing? In the Anglosphere, "America" refers to the US. Nothing about it is malicious or in contempt of Mexico or any other states in the Western Hemisphere, that's just how the terminology evolved.
- dalke 10y agoWhat is a continent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent points out that different countries have different models. "France and its former colonies, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Latin America, and Greece" use a 6-continent model, where "America" is both North and South America. That WP page points to http://lema.rae.es/dpd/?key=norteamerica http://lema.rae.es/dpd/?key=norteamerica , which says: > Tanto América del Norte como Norteamérica son designaciones correctas del subcontinente americano que engloba el conjunto de países situados al norte de México y al propio México. > [Both 'America of the North' and 'North America' are correct designations of the American subcontinent which encompasses the union of the countries north of Mexico and Mexico itself.] The second definition points out that in Spanish, "North America" is often used as a synonym for the US, with the lovely example: > En América, solamente la República Argentina tiene organizados sus cultivos usando tecnología moderna, exceptuando Canadá y Norteamérica > [In America, only the Argentine Republic has organized their crops using modern technology, except Canada and North America] If you grew up learning that your country was part of America-the-continent, then I can easily see why it's irritating to have others say that it isn't. I am wary about justifying something with "Just how the terminology evolved". Sometimes language evolves for malicious purposes, or to enforce certain cultural prejudices. Look at recent HN discussions on how "expat" is a high status word for "temporary guest worker from a rich country", or how "jaywalker" was invented to castigate pedestrians who don't give way to drivers.