(November 9, 2014 at 9:36 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Wrong. The extermination of Native Americans was carried out by people. People who were overwhelmingly Christian.
It is a historical FACT (it was especially brutal in South America).
Convert or die was the policy then, and, yes, government shut the eye blind because they thought that converting natives to Christianity is the best plan to "civilize" them (in other words make it easier to fully colonize everything without a lot of resistance).
Religious missionaries were always a bad news to any native population anywhere in the world, period, always about "helping" by destroying native cultures and and establishing the copy of their own, how fucking convenient