Were there killings in the california missions if the people did not convert?
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Yes if any indian did not want to convert into catholicism they were killed, tortured and so on.  \nthat is the reason why so many people today are catholics because they were brainwashed into converting and so on!
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I like your question. (I have a special interest in California history.) The Santa Barbara mission is my favorite of all 21 missions, too. \n\nThe Chumash Indians worked on the water reservoir and it is still part of the city water system today. I think what sets this mission apart from the rest is that the native Indians had a good relationship with the Fathers at this mission - so many of the Fathers in charge of missions were quite cruel to the Indians. Not so in Santa Barbara.\n\nBTW, have you been to see the History Gallery at the Oakland Museum? If you are interested in California's history, you will enjoy it immensely.
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They never existed.   Its all totally bogus.  Scholars can prove\nthat portions of the Book of Mormon was directly lifted\nfrom the King James Bible, translation mistakes included.\nPlus, I was in SLC one year and went to the musuem\non the Temple grounds  (one of the few places "Gentiles:\ncan go)   One of the exhibits  has  "copies" of the notes\nthat J Smith made from the "golden plates"   and its just\na mess of scribbles......codebreakers  who have lookes\nat that  say that there is no code there to translate.  Its\njust gibberish.\n   Plus  there is no archeological evidence of the so-called\ncivilization  of the 10 lost tribes here in the Americas.....A \ngreat civilization  always leaves some evidence of its\nbeing,  it can never be totally erased.
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If I understand correctly there was a policy of convert or die.  Brings alot of converts.
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IF Jesus was married, he would have only had one wife.  He was supposed to be Jewish, not Mormon.
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Yes, those evil missionaries like Mother Theresa who did nothing else.  Or all the Irish missionaries who did 'nothing' at all those leper colonies in Africa.  Or all the missionaries in our inner cities soup kitchens and shelters doing 'nothing'.
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try wikipedia.com or search for San Gabriel Arcangel mission on yahoo and google.
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Before Christ there no Christians. The people were Jews, pagans and various Abrahamic based religions
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Spanish Missionaries lead by Father Junipero Serra were the first Europeans on the west coast of what is now the United States.  From their base in Mexico they set out establishing a chain of missions.  The locations the missionaries chose were often close to reliable water sources and arable land.  The missions atracted settlers and evolved into present day cities and towns.\n\nThe Mission Basilica San Diego = San Diego\n\nSanta Barbara, CA has a mission, so does San Lius Obispo, and San Francsico.
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Yeah, they could have. Any religion could have. It's just a matter of time. Although I can't see no buddhists bombing towers... :) I am no buddhist.
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Given the following:\n\nA) Non-Catholics were not only seen as heretics, but because church and state were so intertwined, they were also traitors, and\n\nB) People tend to be as harsh and hostile as their environment, and\n\nC) the lack of any real technology made theirs a harsh environment with high mortality rates, and\n\nD) being basically ignorant of any realistic concept of how the universe works, and\n\nE) fearing that divine displeasure would result in the destruction of the realm,\n\nit therefore followed that anyone who rocked the boat was a definite threat to the "natural" order of life.\n\nSo, one removes the threat. It's a matter of survival.\n\nLook at it from THEIR viewpoint. Given what I said, they were actually being rather kind. They gave those accused a chance to recant and save their souls at least. By their lights that was Christian.\n\nDo not judge the past by the mores of the present.\n\nWere it to happen today we would be incensed. I know this because the Muslim fundamentalists are busy doing the same thing, with one exception. They kill you without a trial. And look how we responded to the news that a perfectly nice young man was to be killed for becoming a Christian. We're NOT medievals anymore. Muslim fundamentalists may be, but we're not. We've grown up beyond being scared of the dark.\n\nBTW, it wasn't, strictly speaking, merely Catholic involvement. It was Catholic inspired and Crown ordered. The Inquisition was carried out by members of the clergy, but always under orders from the king.
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doing violence in the name of God  outside the will of God probably qualified as a type of Idoloty... something many need to repent of .. but htis question is not specific enough\n\ndepends...  did they repent... do they have saving faith or a cold religiousity withough love for thier neighbor  Killed is not the same as murder...  self defence would not be.. killing someone just  to make a statement  would be murder\n\nIf I give my body to be burned and have not love it profits me NOTHING 1 Corinthians 13  so I would say if the motive is a bitterness below the surface toward non muslims... definately outside the will of God and probably idoloty\n\n.. on the other hand there can forgivness from even murder through Jesus...."the blood of Jesus (the redeemer from the cross) speaks better than the blood of Abel (a murdered person)  Hebrews\n\nI guess they would have to turn to the Messiah Jesus, glorifying God by leaning on his work on the cross  believing for eternal life
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these urls should help you:\n\nhttp://gocalifornia.about.com/cs/missioncalifornia/a/gabrielhist.htm\nhttp://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/sangabriel.html
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Go to this site for the mission's history.\n\nhttp://www.californiamissions.com/morehistory/sangabriel.html
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Charles Manson was not executed because during his stay in prison California decided not to execute people.  I believe they have changed the law again, but he is grandfathered in now.  I don't believe any of the Manson family was executed.  Maybe Tex Watson was.
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Yup, you got it, homey! \n\nAnd those same conquistadores and their ilk circumnavigated the globe and hit the Philippines, too! Same-o, same-o. \n\nThus, in the process, the Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade began as they sacked, raped and pillaged all the natural resources of these countries FIVE CENTURIES AGO[!] and they brought back the treasures to Europe and Rome.\n\nBut, as an aside, it never ceases to amaze me how some of their 'faithful' UP TO NOW continue to be IN DENIAL and keep on protecting all the atrocities perpetrated by the Mother Church since the start of the Crusades. They don't realize that the Church's own HISTORY has nothing to do with FAITH at all!\n\nYet somehow they prefer to remain in darkness... until they open their eyes and begin to see.\n\nPeace be with you!
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The Spaniards felt it was their moral obligation to convert "the heathens".  So they worked really hard to not only colonize these countries, but to convert everyone.  To my understanding, it was a pretty violent thing and people didn't necessarily choose Catholicism.  The natives were very resistent and they tried to maintain their original religions by hiding symbols of their religion, etc. in churches.  This explains why the Catholicism in Latin America is a little bit different than Catholicism in other countries...it's a sort of mix of native religions and Spanish Catholicism, called "sincretismo".