Just as a point, Catholicism (which is Christian, note the founder), is never behind murder of any sort. By definition.
People in the Church, people who are baptised Catholic, even the hierarchy, can say they are Catholic, but that does not necessarily mean they are practicing Catholicism.
It does mean they will be judged as Catholic, whereby if they had been lying and murdering it doesn’t go well.
But Catholicism is never behind this kind of thing.
Flame away
Not even the Crusades?
Joan of Arc will be pleased to hear of her reprieve.
I was just commenting and comparing the nature of the environment then and current commentary and attacks on the church.
God told Moses and Joshua to exterminate the Caananites because of their detestable practices. These included child sacrifice and male and female temple prostitution.
The aztecs practiced both human sacrifice and homosexuality—especially in their priesthood.
Cortez’s reaction and that of his men was pretty much the same as that of Moses and Joshua to the Caananite practices.
There was one major difference.
The Indians mostly in the millions because of European and African diseases against which they had no resistance.