[hunter112]

It's strange, but one of the implicit arguments of the atheists is that had they and not chr*stians been in charge for the better part of two millenia, they would have been very careful to leave the religious beliefs of the "noble savages" unmolested (a favor they never show Biblical creationists).

Actually, even if religion had not driven European explorers and conquerors to dominate people in the Americas, the native populations still would have been decimated. People in the Americas did not have resistance to a battery of European diseases. Simple peaceful contact would have killed off just about as many as the conquistadores did with swords, guns, and horses leading the attack. Most diseases spread far ahead of the European colonizers.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Actually, even if religion had not driven European explorers and conquerors to dominate people in the Americas, the native populations still would have been decimated. People in the Americas did not have resistance to a battery of European diseases. Simple peaceful contact would have killed off just about as many as the conquistadores did with swords, guns, and horses leading the attack. Most diseases spread far ahead of the European colonizers.

That's all well and good, but my point was the bizarre protectiveness that "rationalists" and "atheists" have towards some people's religion even as they mercilessly attack other people's in the name of "science."