You Must See Mel Gibson's Movie Apocalypto

I'm not in the habit of recommending movies here, but for an absolutely amazing movie showing the (Aztec's, no, corrected) the Mayans in action, I heartily recommend people rent Mel Gibson's Apocalypto.

It vividly shows what it was like to be captured into slavery and what it was like to be marked for human sacrifice. Surely this movie also depicts what it was like when American slave traders captured Africans as slaves too, with some variations, since this was done by gunpoint.

While I was at first hesitant to do so, because it was Gibson's movie, and because is was subtitled and not in English, it will show you what it was like to live in that day. There are very few subtitles anyway because of the action of the movie itself, and during a greater portiton of it no subtitles are even needed. GET THAT MOVIE!

I find it interesting, though, that Gibson doesn't see how his ending doesn't help anything, because the Spanish Conquistadors brought an end to millions of lives through bloodshed and the spread of European diseases, along with the adoption of Catholicism by gun point.

Did you know that after slavery was abolished by the British Empire, who ruled the seas, that American slave traders would turn their ships broadside when a British war ship approached and dumped their "cargo" overboard so as not to get caught? All of this reminds me yet again that God could easily have said in the Bible, "Thou shalt not trade, sell, buy, own, or beat slaves," and said it often enough so professing Christians would not misunderstand.