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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Columbus vs Indians (was Re: PC lives)
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 17:07:53 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- Nathan Engle writes:
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- >white Conquistadors untouched must have been a very compelling reason
- >not only to support Cortez's invasion but to also convert to Christianity
- >in order to gain the protection of the Europeans' obviously more powerful
- >God. Unfortunately for the Indians conversion to Christianity wasn't much
- >p
-
- > Your theory concerning cannibalism amongst the Carribs is hardly
- >sufficient to account for the deaths of over 95 million people in scarcely
- >30 years, nor for that matter is the theory that Aztec human sacrifice
- >was responsible given that the Aztec empire was destroyed before most of
- >the population destruction was complete.
-
- Er, what theory was that? I never said anything about a dinner with 95,000,000
- entrees... perhaps you're getting me confused with someone else?
-
- Are you saying that 95% of the American population was wiped out by Smallpox?
- That seems incredibly high!
-
- Estimates of European deaths from the Plague during the Middle Ages range up
- to 2/3 of the population. Rumors were that the most virulent forms came from
- the Central Asian steppes, spread by various waves of your basic Huns and Mongols.
- Are Europeans then justified in despising Asiatics? If Plague-suffering is so
- conducive to conversion, why didn't Europeans convert en masse to whatever
- animistic religions were practiced by the Central Asian nomads?
-
- Dave
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