You wrote:
“You can believe that all you want.”
I’ll always choose to believe the truth. How about you?
” The evidence is in the way his fellow conquistidores behaved when confronted with the new church-backed governor.”
No, it is not. No matter how they behaved toward a governor, that doesn’t make them anything other than Catholics.
“Bet you forgot that ~ the church was UNHAPPY with him and his men.”
The one has nothing to do with the other.
“What you are forgetting is that in the early 1500s the French Religious Wars are long in the future, Protestants have not yet begun worshipping separately, and the Thirty Years war is a full century away.”
No. 1) Pizarro was already middle aged when the Protestant Revolt began. He came from a people and culture that would remain virtually untouched by it compared to the rest of Europe. 2) Protestants were worshipping separately from Catholics as early as 1520 in some places. 3) Pizarro shows not a single indication of being anything other than a Catholic.
“Get your head out of your lower orifice and take a look at the time lines.”
I am looking at THE timeline. Think! Pizarro was already middle aged when the Protestant Revolt began in Germany (not Spain) 1517. Pizarro was in South America in 1524. He spent the rest of his life as a conquistador...and he built Catholic churches. He returned to Europe just before 1530 and was welcomed into a Catholic Royal order of knighthood. Then he returned to South America. There’s NOTHING in his life to indicate he was a Protestant.
“Ask yourself ~ what happened to the Spanish Protestants?”
Whatever happened to them had nothing to do with Pizarro!!!
“Although schism was averted in Spain itself, that was simply because people who didn’t want to live under the thumb of the priestly caste could leave ~ and they did.”
I’m sure some of them did leave - Pizarro was not one of them. He was never a Protestant and there is no proof for what you claim and all proof in existence goes against what you’re saying. And there were no Vikings on the Volga in 1700 either.
Folks who deny what is so obvious to see really can't be included in any sort of rational discussion.
That's about as big an expression of faith and evidence as you can find.
You should bother reading The History of the Conquest of Peru and Mexico. Great first hand accounts.
The German timeline simply doesn't mean anything except in Central Europe.
The situation in Spain was far different. They discovered America and people could get out of Spain any time they wanted.