Confession of an English Gentleman:
“In my travels trough the overwhelming Spanish Empire I have admired how the Spanish treat natives, like fellow Spanish, even forming mixed families and creating Hospitals and Universities for them, I have met native bishops and mayor’s, even military, which ends in social peace, welfare and general happiness that we would want in our territories, which we have taken from them with such effort. We should consider the policy of depoblation and extermination because at all lights, the faith and Spanish intelligence are building, not like a death empire but like a civilized society. Spain is the wise Greece and the Imperial Rome and England is a Turkish corsair.” Erasmus Darwin, member of the Royal Society and Charles Darwin’s grandparent.
Haven’t finished the Spanish Inquisition material. All I have to say for now, Queen Isabel was a true believer, she really thought the Moors could be converted. What a mess that was ladies and gentleman. Taking my time, because is crucial for a research I’m doing about the evangelization of Hispanic America. Two types of evangelization were tried with the Moors, which later are going to be used in the New World.
