What you state maybe applies today but in the late 1400's?????? I sincerely doubt it.

If anything he was one of the first who wanted the Spanish Colonies to split away from Spain so he could exploit the Indian Slaves he had without paying tribute to the Royal Court.

"What you state maybe applies today but in the late 1400's?????? I sincerely doubt it. "

I don't understand what you mean by this. Are you trying to say that in the 1400s preists were true representatives of the church as opposed to today? Are you aware of how prevelant concubinage was among the catholic clergy in the era you're alluding to? There were popes in that very century you cited who had KNOWN children roaming about. And now your telling me that Las Casas was seeking independence for the spanish colonies so as to secure indian labor?!? LOLOL Diiiiaaaaabblooo. I see you have your own "special" set of "history" books. Try to keep the colors within the lines when you're using them.

Maybe he hasn't heard about Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), ciby. He and his children, Cesare and Lucrezia, would be notorious for their crimes, using the enormous power that the Church had on that era to aggrandize the position of the family in the concert of the european courts of the time.

Quotes by Bartolomé de Las Casas on Account of the Devastation of the Indies

And never have the Indians in all the Indies committed any act against the Spanish Christians, until those Christians have first and many times committed countless cruel aggressions against them or against neighboring nations.
Yet into this sheepfold, into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days.
More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated, and the land laid waste.
We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifteen million.
After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves.
On the Native peoples

And of all the infinite universe of humanity, these people are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity, the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and to the Spanish Christians whom they serve.
These people are the most devoid of rancors, hatreds, or desire for vengeance of any people in the world.

On the Spanish colonists
Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits.
It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies



Bartolomé de Las Casas

Lautoro and Cibaeno.

Are you both that dense?
I was pointing out that the Church back in the 1400's had no qualms treating indians like 2nd class humans and the Pope's representative in the New World could have cared less about the Tainos.

Yumnuk3, Said
Quotes by Bartolomé de Las Casas on Account of the Devastation of the Indies

And never have the Indians in all the Indies committed any act against the Spanish Christians, until those Christians have first and many times committed countless cruel aggressions against them or against neighboring nations.
Yet into this sheepfold, into this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately behaved like ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had been starved for many days.
More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated, and the land laid waste.
We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifteen million.
After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves.
On the Native peoples

And of all the infinite universe of humanity, these people are the most guileless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity, the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and to the Spanish Christians whom they serve.
These people are the most devoid of rancors, hatreds, or desire for vengeance of any people in the world.

On the Spanish colonists
Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high estate disproportionate to their merits.
It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies

Arkatype, Said Litsen the spanish did not kill all the native inhabitants in the island that's a myth. My worry is haitians they destroyed there side of the island through deforestation and poverty, now they're in D.R. spreading like wild fire and lowering the quality of life in the country. That should be threat number one in the country's priority to control illegal haitian immigration.

"Are you both that dense?
I was pointing out that the Church back in the 1400's had no qualms treating indians like 2nd class humans and the Pope's representative in the New World could have cared less about the Tainos."

OK. But what does that have to do with you painting someone who uses Las Casas writings to condemn what coccured in the past as illogical? Obviously Las Casas reached a point of personal development where he developed a different view of the natives then most of his contemproraries and that seems to include the clergy so I still don't see where you were going by refferring to yumnuk as illogical.