>>14277800In between the many wars against Christianity, particularly the Catholic Church, the historiographic confrontations by the enemies of religion have concentrated in two fronts: First, the omission and alteration of historical facts; and second more common front, the themes that purposefully replaced the intelligible with the sensible and awoke many passions based on falsehoods, which we know as the Black Legend. These falsehoods were projections by non-Western European powers (like the Anglos, Dutch, protestants, and others) against Hispanics and the first globalization that united the Occident and the Orient, the latter of which was presided by the Ming Empire. In the case of Brazil, not only did the false scheme of slavery triumphed, but also the French anti-Western figure of the “noble savage” which articulated that the native peoples before Hispanic contact lived well and in harmony with nature.
It took the protestantized Thirteen colonies more than a century to create their first hospitals, after the arrival of their first settlers, a fact that shows a certain contempt for charity. This is a stark and dark contrast with Brazil, where the Santas Casas appeared shortly after Portuguese arrival. For example, the Santa Casa of Olinda was founded in 1539, just four years after the city was founded. The predominant architectural style was Georgian, which did not have the beauty or splendor of Portuguese and Spanish colonial baroque. There is no historic city in the Thirteen Colonies with remarkable beauty or the level of Ouro Preto or Cusco. In a unique and herculean manner, Hispanics have struggled permanently against the Black Legend, and are forced to difficultly explain the diffusion of cultures and technologies (like Spanish). It is imperative to value the accomplishments of Hispanic nations, which protestant nations have a vested interest in continuing to dilute and shroud, because it was their doing.
