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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: 31 Dec 1992 20:56:23 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- Bill Anderson writes:
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- >Missions were esablished for a lot of different reasons, Dave.
- >Sometimes they were there largely to pacify the natives. Sometimes
- >the surrounding natives were forced to work for the Spanish.
- >Sometimes the clergy tortured and executed those who refused to
- >convert, and a few priests were hoping to become rich and
- >powerful.
- >I'm not claiming that every Spanish priest in the new world was a
- >raging monster, set on genocide. Are you claiming they were all
- >saints?
-
- Indians enslaved by the Spanish civil authorities is not the
- same as enslavement by the Missions. I think you might be
- hard pressed to find cases of torturing of those who refused
- to convert, as performed by the clergy.
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- Dave
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