[FoRK] " Atheists behind the greatest cruelty, says Pope"

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 4, 2007, at 12:04 PM, Ian Andrew Bell wrote:

> On 3-Dec-07, at 7:01 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:
>
>> 'One source estimates that as many as 60 million Native Americans  
>> were
>> killed during the Spanish Inquisition.'
>> D.Stannard, American Holocaust, Oxford University Press 1992, p. 95
>
> Not that this detracts from your point substantially, but I believe  
> you're referring to the Conquest of New Spain, not the Spanish  
> Inquisition.

To the extent that the conquistadors engaged in conversion to  
Catholicism, the indigens were then subsequently subject to the  
Inquisition.  Though your point's reasonable, it's debatable whether  
allocating any American genocide to the Inquisition per se is valid.

jb