From what I understand, during the Spanish Conquest of the Americas priests would often give native peoples the option of mass conversion, or torture and death. What happened to European Christianity after the death of Jesus that made violence such as that an acceptable means of proselytization?
by /u/nowlan101 in /r/AskHistorians
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