12 December 2006

Converting the Godless in the sixteenth century

"Once when I asked a chieftain in a certain province if he was a Christian, he said "I am not quite one but I am making a beginning." I asked him what he knew of being Christian and he said, "I know how to swear to God, and play cards a bit, and I am beginning to steal."

Fray Domingo Santo Tomás - Arte de la Lengua General del Perú

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