The 'Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus'

In this text I learned that the “Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus” doctrine had a major impact on Native Americans. Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus is Latin and translates to outside the Church there is no salvation. Religion was a huge deal for Spaniards who came to the Americas, only those of “pure blood” were able to come. Pure of blood meant that they and all of their ancestors were Christian. So when the Spaniards came they would read the Native Americans the “Requierimentos” which stated that they were going to now take over them and their land, as well as enslave all their women and children. It also stated that they would start war with them in name of their God. The Spaniards read these Requierimentos to the Native Americans not caring that
When in reality it was the Spaniards who were the true savages for treating Native Americans as an evil creature due to their religious views. It was sad to read about how Indians families were torn apart and many choose not to have kids because of this. I was disgusted by how the Spaniards would cut off native women’s breasts and throw their infants to a pack of dogs. The teachings of Popes prepared the ground for the mass Genocide of Native Americans because they taught genocide because anyone who would go against their God would be killed. There are many major statements in this book. One of which is the statement that history books have incorrect information on the conquest of the Americas by the Spaniards. This is important to understand because it shows how young students are being taught wrong information as well as being taught to think that Native Americans are horrible people when the reality was that they were the victims in the situation. Another important statement addressed in the book was how it explained the mistreatment of Native American by the