[Hermann the Cherusker]

Let me know when you detect all the descendants of their converts.

The results are quite plain - in French and Spanish and Portuguese dominions in America, in India, the Philippines, and Africa there are millions of native converts to Catholicism from 1500-1800 whose descendants yet live.

In Protestant America, there are next to none. In fact, there are next to no natives left, they having been slaughtered by the Protestants.

"While Protestants did not engage in forced conversions"

Can I sell you a bridge in Brooklyn?

[redgolum]

Just one little word here. Remember that the Spanish had wiped out large numbers of the native populations well before any Anglo Americans came to the scene. I spent a considerable amount of time in New Mexico, and the thing that suprised me is that the Indians I met didn't really like us "northeners", but they REALLY didn't like the Hispanics. Granted, this is only a relativly small number of people, but they general viewed the Spainish as the onese who destroyed their people, and the Americans as the ones who showed up an took what was left.

Abuses in colonial management and conquest happened both with Catholics and Protestants. It would be hard, if not impossible, to nail down who committed the most atrocities.