Originally posted by: andy_k_250
Central/South America?

That was more about Spain and Portugal's colonialism than anything. Roman Catholic conversions were not the primary goal for the warfare and mostly happened on top of that. At worst the colonial powers saw themselves as having the superior religion and deserving to rule on that basis. It's not as if the religious freedoms of the native populations were persecuted in extremely severe ways (in a large-scale, general sense). Also, it wasn't difficult evangelizing to the Central/South Americans since the loyalty they had to their previous religions wasn't exactly what we could call strong.

That said, the horrors committed against those populations were awful. Central and South America are still heavily fucked up because of what Spain and Portugal did. However, you can't directly blame Roman Catholicism for that (and certainly not the rest of Christendom). (England and the U.S. of A. that followed certainly weren't good to the North Americans, but those regrettable events generally weren't as bad.)