to what providence and by whom was Manifest Destiny afforded by and why?
Ask the Aztecs how peaceful christianity was
Ever heard of plague?If the Christians had not reached the Americas, and let's the Muslims had, things really wouldn't have changed as much in terms of the decimation of the Indian population.Disease is what triggered a massive die off of nearly 90% of the indigenous population in Mexico within 50 years of Cortez's landed.When faced with plagues which took only Pagan Indians and left Christian Spaniards unharmed, you might think, if you were an Indian, that the Christian God was stronger than the old Indian gods.
Now let's just look at other parts of the Americas..There was a case in which a Portuguese Catholic Priest or something like that discovered a lost tribe and decided that he would keep the West from corrupting them..Within a few decades, there were 2 survivors of that tribe..How did a single Catholic Priest kill all those people?Was it his being a Christian, or the fact that he brought along with something which this tribe had never had contact with before?
Read Plagues and Peoples if you want to figure out why the Hell Rome fell, or why a few thousand Spaniards were able to conquer so much of Central and South America.
(And yes, I reposted this.)