The Spaniards in Mexico and Peru used to baptize Indian infants and then immediately dash their brains out: by this means they secured these infants went to Heaven. No orthodox Christian can find any logical reason for condemning their action, although all nowadays do so.

In countless ways the doctrine of personal immortality in its Christian form has had disastrous effects upon morals.”

"Why I am not a Christian" by Bertrand Russell (1957)

One of the reasons Filipinos should be thankful that the continent of America exists is because the Spaniards were blocked by it, otherwise it'd be us that would have been murdered and genocided by conquistadores

If you read about Legazpi and the spaniards who colonized the Philippines, they're from a later generation that talked in Spanish universities about Cortez and the destruction of the Aztec empire and so on and how much overkill it was and a proper Christian colonizer should be less bloodthirsty than that

late night ramblings, don't mind me