WARNING: The truth is cruel but it is necessary to
confront lies told about the past. What
I am about to share was never taught in history books regarding the infamous so
called discovery of the inhabitant Americas.
The love of money is the root of all evil and the lust to covet the
wealth of others birthed a declaration of tyranny. This audacious declaration was called “The
Requerimiento.” As I read out loud this heinous document rivers of anger and
fury flooded my soul. The words are
antagonistic, aggressive, hostile, revolting, obnoxious, disgusting and
criminal. I was appalled at the malevolence
mindset of16th Century. This man
made ill fated illogical reasoning was forged from the evil of the darkest bowels
of immorality and iniquity.
"The “Requerimiento”* can be translated to requirement or
demand. It was required to be read by
the invading Conquistador before the invading armies entered into a New World
village, town or city. It was read in
Spanish with the expectation of a response.
Imagine the perplexed looks on the faces of the native inhabitants when
this document was real out loud. To their native ears it was gibberish. Even if there was no language barrier, there
would have been an impediment of understanding concerning the foreign ideology
and unfamiliar concepts expressed in the document. They had their own spiritual perspective of
the world around them and self government and it did not include a distant
Catholic King.
It
was written in 1513 by Juan Lopez de Palacios Rubios, a lawyer. Its diabolical purpose was to provide legal
sanction to subjugate native peoples, plunder their lands and steal their
wealth. Its legal precedent was set
during the centuries of struggle by the Catholic forces in Spain to recapture
their homeland from generations of Muslim overlords commonly called “Reconquista” or the Reconquest. Church leaders would write letters of encouragement
to the victorious Catholic leaders to convert the local defeated Muslim
populations, confiscate their land and wealth as payment for the war and to
edify the church. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista
It
was also a brilliant document because it provided psychological support in the midst
of a moral crisis. We are spiritual
beings laced with emotions encased in a physical body controlled by the
mind. We are interconnected spirit
beings and if something assaults one part of our essence and it is not
appropriately corrected negative consequences will transfer to our physical or
mental beings. This document provided
the Spanish Conquistador with a way to deal with their emotions as they engaged
in systematic hostility, plunder, rape, and murder of the native peoples. By reading this document out loud beforehand
it justified their conquest and “cleansed” their guilty consciousness. In Catholic man made termology it meant absolution from
their upcoming sins. Below is the
English translation of “The Requerimiento.”
"On
behalf of the King, Don Fernando, and of Doña Juana I, his daughter, Queen of Castille and León, subduers of the barbarous nations, we their servants notify and make
known to you, as best we can, that the Lord our God, Living and Eternal,
created the Heaven and the Earth, and one man and one woman, of whom you and
we, all the men of the world at the time, were and are descendants, and all
those who came after and before us. But, on account of the multitude which has
sprung from this man and woman in the five thousand years since the world was
created, it was necessary that some men should go one way and some another, and
that they should be divided into many kingdoms and provinces, for in one alone
they could not be sustained.
Of all these
nations God our Lord gave charge to one man, called St. Peter, that he should be Lord and Superior of all the
men in the world, that all should obey him, and that he should be the head of
the whole Human Race, wherever men should live, and under whatever law, sect,
or belief they should be; and he gave him the world for his kingdom and jurisdiction.
And he
commanded him to place his seat in Rome, as the spot most fitting to rule the
world from; but also he permitted him to have his seat in any other part of the
world, and to judge and govern all Christians, Moors, Jews, Gentiles, and all other Sects. This man was called Pope, as if to
say, Admirable Great Father and Governor of men. The men who lived in that time
obeyed that St. Peter, and took him for Lord, King, and Superior of the
universe; so also they have regarded the others who after him have been elected
to the pontificate, and so has it been continued even till now, and will
continue till the end of the world.
One of these
Pontiffs, who succeeded that St. Peter as Lord of the world, in the dignity and
seat which I have before mentioned, made donation of these isles and
Tierra-firme to the aforesaid King and Queen and to their successors, our
lords, with all that there are in these territories, as is contained in certain
writings which passed upon the subject as aforesaid, which you can see if you
wish.
So their
Highnesses are kings and lords of these islands and land of Tierra-firme by virtue of this donation: and some islands, and
indeed almost all those to whom this has been notified, have received and
served their Highnesses, as lords and kings, in the way that subjects ought to
do, with good will, without any resistance, immediately, without delay, when
they were informed of the aforesaid facts. And also they received and obeyed
the priests whom their Highnesses sent to preach to them and to teach them our Holy Faith; and all these, of their
own free will, without any reward or condition, have become
Christians, and are so, and their Highnesses have joyfully and benignantly
received them, and also have commanded them to be treated as their subjects and
vassals; and you too are held and obliged to do the same.
Wherefore, as best we can, we ask and require you that you consider what we
have said to you, and that you take the time that shall be necessary to
understand and deliberate upon it, and that you acknowledge the Church as the
Ruler and Superior of the whole world, and the high priest called Pope, and in his name the King and Queen Doña Juana our lords, in his place,
as superiors and lords and kings of these islands and this Tierra-firme by virtue of the said donation, and that you
consent and give place that these religious fathers should declare and preach
to you the aforesaid.
If you do so,
you will do well, and that which you are obliged to do to their Highnesses, and
we in their name shall receive you in all love and charity, and shall leave
you, your wives, and your children, and your lands, free without servitude,
that you may do with them and with yourselves freely that which you like and
think best, and they shall not compel you to turn Christians, unless you
yourselves, when informed of the truth, should wish to be converted to our Holy Catholic Faith, as almost all the
inhabitants of the rest of the islands have done. And, besides this, their
Highnesses award you many privileges and exemptions and will grant you many
benefits.
But, if you
do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with
the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make
war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to
the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you
and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their
Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all
the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse
to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the
deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of
their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. And that we have said this to
you and made this Requisition, we request
the notary here present
to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that
they should be witnesses of this Requisition."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requerimiento
*As
a Believer in Jesus Christ, I, 100% reject this document. It does NOT reflect the Holy character of
God, the true words of Jesus Christ or the transformation power of the Holy
Spirit. These gluttonous ideas were NOT
inspired by God. These immoral acts were
created independent from God by misguided men who out of their own sinful lust
desired money, fame and power. (James
1:13-15).
Jesus’
commandment to the church was and is and will always be; “Love One Another.” Anything
short of that is disobedience. (Luke
6:46)
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