[FoRK] Religion and genocide

[Jeff Bone]

Or, just maybe, the Pope's a lying bastard...

On Dec 4, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Robert Harley wrote:

>> * 'One source estimates that as many as 60 million Native  
>> Americans were
> *>* killed during the Spanish Inquisition.'
>
> Another source estimates that none were at all.  Zero.  Nada.

I'm willing to wager it was somewhere in between those two figures. ;-)

Other useful resources:

   http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat0.htm

   http://www.lilithgallery.com/library/christian/ 
The_Spanish_Inquisition.html

   http://www.chgs.umn.edu/wroxton/syllabus/RELIGIONANDGENOCIDE.pdf

...and this book looks interesting:

   http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_5_119/ai_84054099


jb