Christian missionaries have never gone on mission to accept people. They go on mission to convert, absorb, and indoctrinate people, and then exclude those who refuse. Look at what the Spanish missionaries did in California to the natives… they either got with the program and became good Christians, or got clapped. Sure, it’s less violent today, but still highly exclusionary.
The Spanish and Portugese were notorious for this in the early Modern period. As soon as they had a little taste of success taking out the Moors they were all about spreading Catholicism by the sword.
Christian missionaries have never gone on mission to accept people. They go on mission to convert, absorb, and indoctrinate people, and then exclude those who refuse. Look at what the Spanish missionaries did in California to the natives… they either got with the program and became good Christians, or got clapped. Sure, it’s less violent today, but still highly exclusionary.
The Spanish and Portugese were notorious for this in the early Modern period. As soon as they had a little taste of success taking out the Moors they were all about spreading Catholicism by the sword.