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The Holy Catholic Church was founded on the blood of martyrs whose faith witnessed to the God of their belief. More wars have been fought in the name of religion than for vitually any other cause with both sides believing God was on their side. Ecclesiastical politics powered by a belief in its being sanctioned by God is uglier than anything a secular politician ever conspired to produce.

Driven by a resolve to convert the heathen missionaries including the Jesuits protraited here risked privation and death to bring salvation to the masses. In so doing they brought their diseases, cultural dislocation, the breakdown of tribal society and traditions. And in learning the local languages and dialects they prepared the way for the exploitation by the slavers and colonial powers that followed. 

Devout though their intentions the introduction of culturally inappropriate theology has probably done more harm than good. The genocide, destruction of the landbase that supported a hunter/gatherer society, cultural genocide through residential schools, confinement to reservations on lands for which the invaders found no use, and the introduction of inappropriate dietary items such as sugar and alcohol with the exploitation and slavery that often followed left indigenous peoples with the sentiment expressed here: That they wished they'd never seen these invaders.