The context is ap3's comment: "the spanish continuously built church temples on top of the natives' pyramids. Like a cruel switch of religions. The Mexico City Basilica sits on top of aztec ruins."
snovv_crash believed it was similar to reusing marble from the Coliseum to build St. Peter's.
toyg pointed out that why it isn't similar.
User 'Someone' thought reuse was more to do with pragmatism.
I fail to see the need for a larger context, at least not when it contains so many topics which have nothing to do with the given thread, and with flamebait topics like the proposition that Jesus was not a "superhuman like" person who could perform miracles and walk on water, or that Muhammad did not split the moon.
+ We're talking about where and why the new temples were built. 'Why' there were built there is a pretty important part of the overall question.
+ My proposition was to support the theory that they were built there for geopolitical reasons, not architectural reasons, and I gave some reasoning behind why this was - and to contextualize the misplaced statement regarding a 'cruel switch of religions'
+ You're not reading my comments regarding religion correctly - they are an historical articulation of the social development of religion based on evolving metaphysical premises, specifically from pre-Common Era polytheistic faiths to Common Era faiths, and it has nothing to do with what 'magical' those people happen to believe.
snovv_crash believed it was similar to reusing marble from the Coliseum to build St. Peter's.
toyg pointed out that why it isn't similar.
User 'Someone' thought reuse was more to do with pragmatism.
I reaffirmed that it was deliberate Spanish/church practice. (Other religions do the same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_non-Muslim_place... )
I fail to see the need for a larger context, at least not when it contains so many topics which have nothing to do with the given thread, and with flamebait topics like the proposition that Jesus was not a "superhuman like" person who could perform miracles and walk on water, or that Muhammad did not split the moon.