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...Jesuits rode full gallop into their new assignments: convert the heathen, reconvert Protestant Europe. Francis Xavier hopscotched from India to Southeast Asia to Japan, a country that had never before heard the Christian message. More than any others, the Society of Jesus stemmed, and sometimes reversed, the tide of Protestantism in France, the Low Countries and Central Europe. When Ignatius died in 1556, his order was nearly 1,000 strong and had dispatched its apostles to four continents...
...purposes as well as its methods. The principles of self-aggrandizement and power which guided the nation at that hour are attacked by the Crimson as they reappear today as "the American Century." Rather than the use of the "white man's burden" and "bringing salvation to the heathen" as mere window-dressing for economic and territorial conquest, the Crimson accepts them today only if they signify understanding guidance for undeveloped nations directed towards their independence and self-rule. Another 20 years passed, and the Crimson watched Woodrow Wilson evolve and put into practice his "new freedom", with its liberal...
...hunt. The astrology so many millions follow today is a direct legacy from the astronomer priests of Babylonia. Even when Christianity spread through Europe, many in the countryside kept their rustic rites along with the new religion. ("Pagan" stems from the Latin paganus meaning "country dweller" and "heathen" from "dweller on the heath.") For centuries, magical arts and Christianity lived in uneasy coexistence, as they still do in Latin American countries. But then, out of ancient lore and the minds of medieval churchmen, came the Devil...
...your Majesties that there is not in the world a better nation. They love their neighbors as themselves, and their discourse is ever sweet and gentle...their manners are decorous and praiseworthy." However, these qualities were also taken as signs of weakness that could be profitably exploited and heathen savagery which would have to be reformed, and "Columbus kidnapped ten of his friendly Taino hosts and carried them off to Spain where they could be introduced to the white man's ways. One of them died soon after arriving there but not before he was baptized a Christian. The Spaniards...
...hard for you to understand the impetus behind Christians wanting to tell the "good news" to heathen Chinese, heathen Auca Indians or, for that matter, heathen Americans? If you had something of inestimable value that was within your power to share with mankind, wouldn...