2016-03-23, 02:58 PM
xparasite9 Wrote:a bit of a false equivalency. Separated by thousands of miles of rough ocean, it was difficult to rein in abuse. The question you are trying to equate was "Why didn't other Christians stop the Popes which blessed such actions (of the Crusades)?"
Antonio de Montesinos and Bartolome de las Casas were very brave whistleblowers who alerted the Spanish government and the Church of the atrocities. And upon hearing of it, they weren't happy about it at all, to say the least. They condemned the actions of the conquistadors. Quite different from the imams who shout "death to America"
The Spanish government and the Church sent their soldiers over there to get the gold and the souls of the natives.
The soldiers on site might have been more "atrocious" than their senders intended, but the original purpose was never a peaceful mission.