Attempt to make sense of it. :)

Yes once again it's revision, and this time for TWC... and if you would recall i had blogged about this book before. This time again i am yet perturbed... by a few paragraphs talking about by the Spaniards conquered the Incas.


"Governer Pizarro now sent Friar Vicente de Valverde to go speak to Atahuallpa, and to require Atahuallpa in the name of God and of the King of Spain that ATahuallpa subject himself to the law of our Lord Jesus Chirts and to the sreice of His Majesty the King of Spain. Advancing with a cross in one hand and the Bible in the other hand, and oging among the Indian troops up to the place where Atahuallpa was, the Frair thus addressed him:'I am a Priest of God, and I teach Christians the things of God, and in like manner I come to teach you. What I teach is that which God says to us in this Book. Therefore, on the part of God and of the Christians, i besech you to be their friend, for such is God's will, and it will be for your good.'


"Atahuallpa asked for the Book, that he might look at it, and the Friar gave it to him closed. Atahuallpa did not know how to open the Book, and the Friar was extending his arm to do so, when Atahuallpa, in great anger, gave him a blow on the arm, not wishing that it should be opeend. Then he opened it himself, and , without any astonishment at the leters and apper he threw it away from him five or six paces, his face a deep crimson.


'The Friar returned to Pizarro, shouding, 'Come out! Come out, Christians! Come at these enemy dogs who reject the things of God. That tyrant has thrown my bok of holy law to the ground! Did you not see what hapened? Why remain polite and servile toward this over-proud dog when the plains are full of Indians? March out against him, for I absolve you!"


Those few paragraphs served as justification for the mass-slaughtering later on.


Maybe i should enroll myself in some class about God and politics... cos i really can't figure out what the above really amounts too.


And also raises in my mind the question that arises now and then - God is the same forever, but our "religion" always changes with our cultural and political situation. So how much is that ok, and how much is it not?


Well, just for some intellectual thought. Back to mugging my book brainlessly now. :)