In the realm of power,
Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and
cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have
discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. This particular true faith, moreover, is more
deeply concerned about the soul than it is about the body, to which fact the
flesh (and the corpses) of countless infidels bears witness. It goes without saying then, that whoever
questions the authority of the true faith also contests the right of the
nations that hold this faith to rule over him—contests, in short, their title
to his land. The spreading of the
Gospel, regardless of the motives or the integrity or the heroism of some of
the missionaries, was an absolutely indispensable justification for the
planting of the flag.
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