Was it morally justified to colonise America?

[Poet]

Probably because in the US, we are still dealing with some of the fallout of those decisions. In order to look ahead, in many cases, it’s important to understand how the past is still effecting us so that we can change it.

So you think that ONLY the US – no African nation, no Asian nation, no South American nation, not Canada, no European nation – affected by its past decisions? The point is that many people behave as if ONLY the US has ever done anything wrong. In fact, every nation that ever existed has done wrong and many continue to do wrong.

What matters is to state clearly what is wrong RIGHT NOW and what CURRENTLY needs to be changed.

Colonization was a fact of life in those centuries. Some things done in those times are wrong.

But what needs to be changed right now, today?

 

[VanitasVanitatum]

So you think that ONLY the US – no African nation, no Asian nation, no South American nation, not Canada, no European nation – affected by its past decisions? The point is that many people behave as if ONLY the US has ever done anything wrong. In fact, every nation that ever existed has done wrong and many continue to do wrong.

It is natural for Americans to focus on the history of their country.

 

[GodIsPerfection]

Hernan Cortes, the Conquistador from Spain, led his army into Mexico in 1519.

From a “command and control” perspective, his invasion is interesting. The Spanish Governor of New Spain, Diego Velasquez de Quellar had actually revoked Cortes’ charter, so technically, it was a mutinous enterprise that Cortes was leading. Cortes’ army was accompanied by Catholic priests.

Eventually , with about 500 troops, Cortes discovered the Aztec Empire, in the region of Mexico City, and by his own initiative brutally destroyed it, before the Spanish King Charles, even knew it existed.

Although Cortes is condemned for his actions, the Aztec religion practiced periodic ritual human sacrifice and cannibalism of innocents (often lovely, youthful virgins) to appease the their gods. The beating hearts were ritually removed from the sacrificial victims and eaten. Cortes’ actions replaced these satanic practices with Catholicism, bringing the Gospel of Christ’s Salvation to Mexico for generations.

I cannot see the effects of even Cortes as being entirely immoral.