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warrrreagl,
1. Just so you'll know, I was being a smart-ass. Which I'm prone to be.
2. This whole discussion, in my opinion (and it may be moving towards ARt's thread, which I've not read yet), is going to be complicated, per usual, in theory vs. practice sense. Thus, my own opinion in these situations is to delineate the difference between tolerance and acceptance. I will not accept such a cultural practice. I don't believe such a cultural practice should be accepted. I'll tolerate it, in the sense that I know it exists, and (as you referenced the Native American annihilation) I believe that are better ways to achieve changes than at the point of a gun, etc.
As an aside, concerning the Native Americans in the "New World," I'm not convinced that the Church wanted to eliminate the indigeneous peoples as much as they wanted to displace them, convert them, or enslave them. From what I've read, unfortunately the host of diseases that were brought over with the first European explorers / settlers pretty much wiped out / drastically decreased the population of many of the Native American tribes. I'm no historian, so I'm not really putting my foot down on that one.
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