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Or the conflicts of the Early Church, or the brutality of the state-controlled Church of the Roman Empire, or Charlemagne, or the Crusades, or colonization in America, or the Thirty Years' War, or... (lemmy.world)
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[–] cjoll4@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I totally get the satire in your comment but I just wanna say, the forced Christianization of indigenous Americans was definitely carried out by Protestants.

edit: I guess Protestants didn't have widespread, overt "accept baptism or we'll execute you on the spot" policies like some Catholic missions in the Americas, but the result of forced relocation and family separation was much the same. When they force people onto a reservation on an inhospitable plot of land half a continent away from their homes, and then withhold aid unless they accept Christ as their savior, they might as well be saying "convert or die." Same goes for using the natives' "heathenry" as part of the justification for wars and war crimes.