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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3695779" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>The Spanish armies were there for riches.&nbsp; The Church went along for the ride.&nbsp; The priests did not control the conquistadors.&nbsp; There&#039;s a great small city in Chiapas, Mexico called San Cristobal de las Casas.&nbsp; Named in part for Bartolome de las Casas, the first bishop of Chiapas.&nbsp; He was revered by the locals for protecting them from the government.&nbsp; There are plenty of other examples.&nbsp; Of course those that hate Christianity always twist it into something else altogether.&nbsp; Not that no one in the Church did anything wrong but there&#039;s no one size fits all blanket explanation for how the new world was colonized.&nbsp; Nor were there massive armies marching across Asia or Africa forcing people to convert.&nbsp; Frankly there&#039;s just no comparison between how Christianity was advanced verses Islam.&nbsp; And in today&#039;s world there&#039;s just no comparable extremist Christian comparison in scale with what Muslim extremists are doing.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 3695779, member: 24302"] The Spanish armies were there for riches. The Church went along for the ride. The priests did not control the conquistadors. There's a great small city in Chiapas, Mexico called San Cristobal de las Casas. Named in part for Bartolome de las Casas, the first bishop of Chiapas. He was revered by the locals for protecting them from the government. There are plenty of other examples. Of course those that hate Christianity always twist it into something else altogether. Not that no one in the Church did anything wrong but there's no one size fits all blanket explanation for how the new world was colonized. Nor were there massive armies marching across Asia or Africa forcing people to convert. Frankly there's just no comparison between how Christianity was advanced verses Islam. And in today's world there's just no comparable extremist Christian comparison in scale with what Muslim extremists are doing. [/QUOTE]

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