[MD] new blog

[Michael Poloukhine]

> mel:
> I can't help wonder how much of the Spanish
> actions in the Americas was religion based
> and how much was a marriage of convenience.
> While there were plenty of clerical threads in the
> weaving of the whole cloth, I suspect the loom
> (motive and mechanism) was political and economic.
MP: Welcome to the entire history of Western religions; politics using religion to 
further corporeal goals. Why do you think Western relgions are so oppressive 
and controlling by nature? SOM + politics + theism = mess.