On 03/10/2015 07:50, Jeanne Douglas wrote:
> In article <MPG.30790ce6790b779398b0b6@news.altopia.com>,
>   "Checkmate, DoW #1" <Lunatic.Fringe@The.Edge> wrote:


>>> By the way the New Testament doesn't obligate christians to convert
>>> nonchristians, nor that christians are punished by their god for the sins
>>> of
>>> others. So your demands to have christianity proven true is only an
>>> obligation
>>> on yourself.
>
>
> Oh, really, then why all the slaughtered dead all over the American
> continents among Natives who refused to convert?
>

I'd classify that as a convenient excuse for an out and out land grab. 
The Spaniards resorted to the old trick of claiming that "god wants us 
to do this" in order to legitimise their greed, just as Charlemagne did 
with the Saxons and indeed the JEws did in Palestine (if one gives 
credence to the bible).