Early missionaries sought to convert and change the culture of indigenous people. Later, Christians and Catholics realized that stripping indigenous people of their culture did not lead to satisfying spiritual relationships. For example, consider a Christian missionary who demands that a man of several wives give up all wives except one. The rejectied wives become homeless and penniless. They are confused as to why a loving God would want them to be alone and rejected when they had simply followed their cultural norms and were very happy doing so. The disruption created great confusion and misunderstanding of the attributes of God.
•They were granted religious freedom (good) •they didn’t know how to farm the land (bad) There’s more but those are two huge ones from when the pilgrims arrived and created the mayflower compact
