Not to mention the Inquisition, Spanish Conquest of the Americas, Witch trials, and then you have the current genocide of Palestinians by Israel a Jewish state, all colonization, all the Muslim wars....
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The spaniah conquest had very little to do with religion. It served as an excuse, but Fray Bartolomé de las Casas was a loud voice against the spanish atrocitiea. Most colonization is due to resources, little to do with religion.
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I took an entire history course on the Spanish Conquest. My professor was inducted into the Spanish Royal Order for his work in the subject. Convert or die was a huge part of the Spanish Conquest. www.stpetersburg.usf.edu/news/2021/us...
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Cool. I'm latinoamerican, and I learned the history from highschool and a couple more umiversity courses and let me tell you, it wasn't really that important. The conversion to catholicism took centuries.
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It didn't help that the spanish destroyed many places of worship, but many monastoc orders, like the jesuits, took a less violent approach to conversion.
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You need to separate how politics use religions as tools for powdr vs a true religious fervour war.
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Our Founders made the Separation of Church and State a foundational principle of our Constitution and government for good reason. There's a reason why no one's religious beliefs are allowed to inform our laws or government.
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You should tell the Republicans that.
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When religion is in any way involved it ceases to be strictly political.
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