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In my essay I compare and contrast the different ideas of de Vaca and Handsome Lake about Christianity. Both of them used Christianity in their writings as an element, however they had different viewpoints on it. De Vaca used it to treat people in a bad way like he sees them as miserable people, but Handsome Lake used it to treat people (Indians) in a better way. And I will try to prove these things in my essay. De Vaca behaved toward Indians very badly. When we read his text about "Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca" we can clearly understand his bad pattern of behavior and also we understand that he was always in war with Indians. The Christians destroyed the Indians land and burned their houses. He thought that this war was necessary."Through the mercy of God, the wind did not blow from the north in all this time, otherwise I should have died."He believes in Christianity and he has strong religious beliefs. First of all he believes in God and he is thankful to Christianity and the protection of people by God in every conditions. He unfortunately thought that only with Christianity that things would reach in its best. In the book we can easily see that he saved all tribe from death. He prevented one tribe's extin
Although this is similarity between them there is a striking contrast. He even said that people (white men) should behave more honest and be reliably toward the Indians. For example if any one chance to fall sick in the desert and cannot keep up with the rest, the Indians leave him to perish, unless it be a son or a brother. He did strange hand gestures in shape of the Christian cross and made believed Indians that he in fact cured them with these gestures and with the sacred help of the Christianity. He addresses all of these to white men and including he accepts that they (the white men) were the people who dragged Indians into their tricky life. He used it again for making people believe that he cured Indians by these Christian cross like hand gestures and great power of the Christianity. He also talks about the religion, he stresses out that how bad the religion spread out. Soon, Cabeza de Vaca lived with, fought with, traded with, preached to, was a slave for, healed and observed native people. They live in tribes, they own land, they hunt and do agriculture in order to survive. Cabeza de Vaca used Christianity in a bad way even Indians told that 'the real Christians apparently lied and for this reason they thought that they could not possibly be the Christians. "For we appeared out of sunrise, they out of sunset; we cured the sick, while they killed even the healthy; we went naked and barefoot, while they wore clothes, and rode horseback and stuck people with lances; we asked for nothing and gave away all we were given, while they never gave anybody anything and had no other aim than to steal. In contrast Handsome Lake argued that white men were the people who persuaded Indians to go along in a dishonest way.
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