Reply #14: Things were unfolding differently in the North and South. [View All]

[Rex]

To most Anglicans, it would have been an affront in the eyes of God. You have to remember that these are people who worried about being hit by lightening for jacking off and wanted to dunk women into vats of water until they were dead (and therefore could NOT be a witch). The Spanish OTOH lived with 900 years of occupation and were hellbent on retaking land, cities, populations. When they found South America, it was at the height of the Reconquering period of Spain. Anglo-saxons on the otherhand, were escaping/banished for being religious wackos or holding extremist ideas about society. One group was conquering, the other was escaping persecution. Of course it all became about conquering and still is.