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 extinction from illness. He said that they could be Christians but he claimed that Indians had a very little heart and bad luck because of their nationality. 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. I think their bad luck comes from their customs. We can see their bad luck brings them the illness. They have little hearts because they do not know anything about Christian religion. They are credulous people.
             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 possib
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