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Catholicism was also a major force behind revolutionary energy in Latin America. Growing up feeling guilty about how selfish you are and looking up to a guy who sacrificed his life for others adds an element to the culture that can often lead to wanting to go out of your way to make the world better for those less fortunate.
The vatican and catholic power structure was always allied with reactionaries in both europe and latin america, and helped latin american countries hunt down and kill leftists, including liberation theology priests. The last pope, pope Francis, even helped imprison and kill several during the argentian junta.
Highly recommend reading Paul L Williams - Operation Gladio, because it gets into this history, especially the cold-warrior alliance of the CIA / NATO, the catholic church, fascist lodges and stay-behind units in Europe and SA, and the mob. The vatican played a large role in many of anti-communist atrocities of the 20th century.
If we go further back in history, there's also the "Doctrine of Discovery" - the Catholic church would respond and grant a Catholic colonizer "rights" to colonize an area and eradicate indigenous populations, by issuing the Inter Caetera decree.
Definitely. Christianity was an extremely powerful tool to "pacify" populations, and columbus pretty much inaugurated the era of Christian colonialism.
"If they can't pacify you with the bible, then they use the gun".