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MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoI don’t care about motivation or how a bunch of murderers felt, I care about the victims of genocide and the loss of massive religious diversity. Don’t you care about that too? Or is the only thing that matters to you what the conquistadores “intended” while they were raping girls and destroying villages?
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Really? This you?
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Ah, I see the problem. You read me say “reason” and assumed I meant reason as in motivation, when I actually meant reason as in cause, because you have the reading comprehension of a 4th grader. Then you proceeded to derail this conversation with a pointless tangent about motivations that nobody else cares about.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s not a cause lmao. Europeans were going to violently colonize the Americas, Africa, and Australia whether they followed Jesus, Buddha, or no one at all. It’s not like the Bible said “hey guys, those people over there don’t have guns, and they’ve got lots of gold”.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And now you’ve completely lost track of the entire conversation.
The causal reason that people today use “religious” as shorthand for “Christian” is that the other religions in colonised continents were wiped out or reduced to a few members.
Argue against what I actually said instead of what you wish I said.