Reply #118: Everyone's doing it so it must be right?

[txlibdem]

If everyone was sacrificing humans to appease the rain god or the sun god or whatever, that make it alright wouldn't it? In some places, wars were constantly waged in order to supply a steady stream of prisoners to use as human sacrifices. I don't think that's the right way to run a civilization, yet the Maya and Aztec in South America, Pawnee and Iroquois (American Indian tribes), and much of West African societies sacrificed humans, some only stopped in the 19th century (less than 200 years ago for you math challenged).
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice#Pre-Columbian_Americas)
These civilizations lasted this way for thousands of years. Where are they now?

But I see that I am addressing one of the indoctrinated so I will be unsuccessful in convincing you. I won't shed a tear for your lack of historical knowledge, nor your quaint notions of human civilization.