Pantheism And The Protestant Reformation
After Christopher Columbus and his crew landed in the American Indies, many other explorers and conquistadors landed in the new continent in search of goods and territory. This new territory was already occupied by the ‘Indians’, who had an already established society. Even though the conquistadors were predominantly Catholic, they got into a new religion, that which the ‘Indians’ were part of. Europeans did not join this religion, but now had knowledge about it. Taking all this new information back to Europe might have influenced how some people see religion. Although the Indians were polytheistic, they did not have to pay for their admission to heaven nor they were summoned by a higher religious authority (Hunt