I wonder what he has to say about the Holocaust and the extermination of witches through the ages.
I guess he'd take the tack that because one group of pagans at some stage indulged in sacrifice, it was a good justification for their extermination. Let's face it, if one did it, they'd all be capable of such evil. Isn't it lucky that we had the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions to save us from such evil.
The Portuguese inquisition at Goa had some novel techniques for conversion. It consisted of torturing a child in front of the parents. They had no choice but to watch. Their eyelids had been removed.
Just think of what evil would have been perpetrated had they not caught these people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition"The Goan inquisition is regarded by all contemporary portrayals as the most violent inquisition ever executed by the Portuguese Catholic Church. It lasted from 1560 to 1812. The inquisition was set as a tribunal, headed by a judge, sent to Goa from Portugal and was assisted by two judicial henchmen. The judge was answerable to no one except to Lisbon and handed down punishments as he saw fit. The Inquisition Laws filled 230 pages and the palace where the Inquisition was conducted was known as the Big House and the Inquisition proceedings were always conducted behind closed shutters and closed doors. The screams of agony of the culprits (men, women, and children) could be heard in the streets, in the stillness of the night, as they were brutally interrogated, flogged, and slowly dismembered in front of their relatives. Eyelids were sliced off and extremities were amputated carefully, a person could remain conscious even though the only thing that remained was his torso and a head.
Diago de Boarda, a priest and his advisor Vicar General, Miguel Vazz had made a 41 point plan for torturing Hindus. Under this plan Viceroy Antano de Noronha issued in 1566, an order applicable to the entire area under Portuguese rule.... "