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Christianity, is it moral good to be force upon others? What was suppose to be an act of humanity or perhaps kindness soon led to an era in which Christianity was diluted from its powerful meaning to the human race. Christianity's impact in the new world developed into an act of cruelty among the Natives, thus destroying the whole entire race little by little. Bartolome De Las Casas grew to be a symbol of justice and human rights supporter in Latin America. Through his writings and dramatic exaggerations he created an unusual way of seeing what Christianity was suppose to be. With his rational ideas De Las Casas was able to question the good of Christianity in the New World. |
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"The Methaphysics of Indian-Hating" Is a text that gives Indians aspects of devils while the Indian haters are dedicated Christians who are only trying to bring light into the Natives life by Christianizing their old ways and hoping that Christianity in America will remain powerful in everyone's life. The satire target of this text is the suppose practice of Christianity. One of the quotes that I found interesting in this text is "The failure of Christianity is to be Christians." What was suppose to be good Christianity in the early years was seen by others including De Las Casas as an act of cruelty and illogical force. In this text I find it interesting the way in which Indians were being portray, this text also adds to the idea that Christianity was seeing as morally correct.
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"Las Casas and The History of Ideas in Latin America" is a text in defense of the Indians by Bartolome De Las Casas. De Las Casas starts a defense of the Indians by denying the Indians barbarism. In his text he argues that the Indians are not barbarians since they do not lack "rules, laws, institutions" in which De Las Casas takes a drastic role in the way Christianity should be implemented in the human life. In many ways De Las Casas questioned the morality and the good of Christianity by satirizing the Christian religion. This source serves as a major prove that many of the conversions made by Christians were morally wrong. This book by Louisa S. Hoberman, "Las Casas and The History of Ideas in Latin America" Vol. 13 No 1 (1978) pp277-282 is a source in which many of the eye witnessing experiences made Towards the Indians were seeing through the own eyes of De Las Casas.
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