To illustrate, in 1511 Pedro de Cordoba and his fellow monks publicly denounced and excommunicated everyone in Hispaniola in the sermon Ego sum vox clamantis in deserto. At church on Sunday, when everyone would be there.
His opinion on the slaveowners was
-All of you are in mortal sin; in it you live and in it you die.
-In the state you are, you cannot be saved, as your behavior is equal to a lack of faith in Jesus Christ, and you have no desire for it
-If you continue mistreating the Indians, know for sure that the sins you confess will not receive absolution.
So yeah, they knew from the start that they were monsters, because fellow white people were calling them fucking monsters.
-If you continue mistreating the Indians, know for sure that the sins you confess will not receive absolution.
I was raised catholic and I want to point out how dire this proclamation is, even the normally-unforgivable mortal sins don't retroactively make all of your other sins unforgivable. This dude fucking rules.
The Inquisition in general is such a weird historical moment. It started off trying people who accused other people of witchcraft because believing that magic and witchcraft were real and that the devil could give people magic powers was heretical.
Christianity is kind of this grand historical tragedy because it's produced a lot of amazing individuals and thinkers while being on the whole a massive oppressive force. Catholics originated the idea of universal human rights in Europe when they declared that people in the Americas were human beings with souls just like everyone in the old world, then Catholics (presumably not the same Catholics) went on to enslave and murder millions and millions of people.
To illustrate, in 1511 Pedro de Cordoba and his fellow monks publicly denounced and excommunicated everyone in Hispaniola in the sermon Ego sum vox clamantis in deserto. At church on Sunday, when everyone would be there.
His opinion on the slaveowners was
-All of you are in mortal sin; in it you live and in it you die.
-In the state you are, you cannot be saved, as your behavior is equal to a lack of faith in Jesus Christ, and you have no desire for it
-If you continue mistreating the Indians, know for sure that the sins you confess will not receive absolution.
So yeah, they knew from the start that they were monsters, because fellow white people were calling them fucking monsters.
I was raised catholic and I want to point out how dire this proclamation is, even the normally-unforgivable mortal sins don't retroactively make all of your other sins unforgivable. This dude fucking rules.
He was also head Spanish Inquisitor for the Americas at the time. So it's not some rando firebrand.
The Inquisition in general is such a weird historical moment. It started off trying people who accused other people of witchcraft because believing that magic and witchcraft were real and that the devil could give people magic powers was heretical.
This is pretty boss.
:jesus-cleanse:
Christianity is kind of this grand historical tragedy because it's produced a lot of amazing individuals and thinkers while being on the whole a massive oppressive force. Catholics originated the idea of universal human rights in Europe when they declared that people in the Americas were human beings with souls just like everyone in the old world, then Catholics (presumably not the same Catholics) went on to enslave and murder millions and millions of people.