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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What started out as a claim that “missionaries killed millions” has turned into a claim that “missionaries killed millions because they arrived along with the East India Company and Churchill.” And the claim has been further extended to such stretches as “Churchill was a missionary.”

DCUM, you never fail to disappoint.

The missionaries weren’t there to make their fortunes from land or copper—that’s pretty much antithetical to their religion.

And you can blow a lot of smoke about how missionaries were the only reason the imperialists knew where natural resources were located. But that doesn’t stand up to history (Columbus was looking for a passage to India, [b]not to convert souls[/b], just for starters) let alone common sense. [/quote]

Oh come on. I learned in elementary school that he made natives convert to christianity.

I'm the PP who wrote the thing about Churchill and missionary work and I was just responding to the PP ahead of me, not trying to say that missionaries killed millions. [/quote]

You think Columbus set out for the India passage expecting to run into natives, do you? He didn’t even realize there were whole continents full of people in his way. [/quote]

You think he wasn't expecting to run into the "natives" of India? How do you think he got the funding from the very religious monarchy to go ahead with his mission?

https://www.christianitytoday.com/history/issues/issue-35/columbus-and-christianity-did-you-know.html

https://www.grin.com/document/300739
Here's a blurp:
"Columbus kept a journal of his travels to bring back to Queen Isabel and Ferdinand. In it he states his motivation for seeking India, "you thought of sending me, Christobal Colon, to the said regions of India to see the said princes and the peoples…to see how their conversion to our Holy Faith might be undertaken. And you commanded that I should not go to the East by land (because of the blockade by the Ottoman empire)…but by the route to the West, by which route we do not know for certain that anyone previously has passed."4 The message couldn't be any clearer, but Columbus continues to restate how conversion to Christianity is his main undertaking once he arrives to what he believes to be India. "I hold most serene Princes, that if devout religious persons were here, knowing the language, they would turn Christians."
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