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We recognize how Christianity created liberalism, the enlightenment, progressivism, libertarianism, human rights, etc. 

But there’s a huge Christian thing that people used to do, we still do it, and we don’t think it was Christian influenced? 

The counterpoint is that eastern religions, Aztecs, etc have this cyclical mentality built in. Maybe in the west the Christian influence raises the stakes for us and we’re not just existential about our own lives but about society and the world at large

The Mexica (Aztecs) saw time as cyclical, with world ages rising and falling. But unlike Christian apocalypticism or Eastern cyclic thought, their eschatology wasn’t moral or teleological.

While there’s a shared sense of the world ending, the purpose and meaning differ radically.

A more fitting comparison would be Hindu or Buddhist.

Mesoamerican world endings were mythic resets... not about sin or salvation, but cosmic balance. 

Hence, the skull racks: not symbols of punishment but offerings to sustain the universe.