@Guy Threepwood
Your arguments are really hilarious, considering what Christian Europeans were into for centuries. Christianity worships before the image of a bloodied, tortured corpse, has very violently graphic and gory images of saints, celebrates death to the point of memorializing the saints on the day of their death (much like we would celebrate someone's Birthday), Christian ascetics would whip themselves (and each other) bloody, lick the sores of lepers, castrate themselves to keep the demons of the flesh at bay, starve themselves to near-death, the central ritual of Christianity (the Eucharist) is a cannibalistic feast, parishes have rotting corpses within in them, altars have body parts embedded in them, saints would be dismembered at death and their body parts shipped all over the place (which formed a black market in such things, with many cons being carried out), you have images and devotions that praise and obsess over the wounds and tortures of Christ - including drinking his blood and bathing in it, etc.
Christian Europeans were a filthy, primitive, superstitious, stupid people for almost the whole of the period that Europe was staunchly Christian. They lived in complete filth - rarely, if ever, bathing or changing their clothes, throwing their urine and feces into the street (and often onto those passing by below) which turned the streets into open sewers, they wore wigs to cover up their lice infestations (that's what those powdered wigs were really about), etc. This was quite a contrast to the classical Hellenic cultures which promoted daily bathing and general hygiene, having many public baths and even flushing toilets for the populace to make use of ("Cleanliness is next to Godliness", as the saying goes). Many other peoples that Europeans came into contact with during this time were abhorred at how filthy and uncivilized the Europeans were, including Asians (Arabs, Indians and East Asians, especially; these are cultures that always placed a high value on cleanliness) and various other indigenous peoples throughout the world. Even the pre-Christian Norse peoples were more attentive to their hygiene during this point.
They were also very sadistic in their choice of pastimes, as well - mass cat burnings, bear baiting, dog baiting, monkey baiting, etc. - all very sick and cruel activities. Then there were the very horrific, yet imaginative, tortures and methods of execution that Christian Europeans came up with - hanging, drawing and quartering, the rack, the Catherine wheel, the pear (which was inserted and expanded in pretty much every orifice), the iron maiden, the scold's bridle (primarily used on disobedient women), placing hot coals in or on people, flaying people alive, wearing heavy iron masks (sometimes heated to the point that the flesh melted and fused to it), putting people in metal cages and letting them slowly die of starvation and leaving their rotting corpses on display, putting a metal cage with rats in it on top of someone's body and heating it so that the rats would tear into and burrow into the person to escape the intense heat, the various displays of cruel and painful public humiliation (including wearing masks, bridles, being held in a stockade, being made to wear hats and clothing with mocking and degrading symbolism, etc.). Etc.
We also have rather pathological sexual tortures due to certain interpretations of "Christian virtue", including wearing heavy, torturous chastity devices (both for males and females), infant circumcision, placing acid on the clitoris, etc.
The Conquistadors, for example, would throw native people to dogs to be ripped apart and eaten. They reduced them to the level of chattel slavery and are responsible for quite possibly the biggest genocide in human history. I've read that Columbus himself may have had 12 or 13 natives hanged as a sacrifice in the name of Christ and the Apostles. The lurid tales of human sacrifice and cannibalism you are spouting off in this thread are called atrocity propaganda that was written by the Europeans to paint the indigenous people in a bad light. The Romans did the same with the Druids, as they committed genocide against them. It is a way of rationalizing abuses for posterity.
After all, these cultures, and many times the people themselves, have been mostly completely destroyed, so their side of the story is largely missing from our records. We only really have the records of the conquerors to go by. However, sometimes the chroniclers let the other side of the story slip through in their writings (especially the ones where the authors were disgusted at the treatment of the indigenous peoples by their fellow Christian Europeans and experienced deep regret at it), and it shows their cultures in a completely different light from how the conquerors wish us to remember them. They were not primitive savages. Many of these pre-Christian cultures were quite urbane and advanced, possessing knowledge and technologies that the Europeans didn't have at the time. In many cases, they were much more egalitarian, with many rights afforded to women and children. They had art, philosophy, medicine, various sciences, centers of learning, etc. Aztec knowledge and cosmology alone was extremely complex and sophisticated, one of the most sophisticated systems of thought in the world.
So Christianity is a very violent, sadomasochistic, necrophilic religion. It has a tendency to produce major psychosexual disorders and delusions as well as a tendency to shun reason and basic decency. Nowadays we as a society tend to disdain such things, but that's not necessarily because we're more adept at practicing "Christian morality".
