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Las Casas vehemently opposed the notion that the gospel could be spread through slaughter or compulsion of any kind. While others claimed that the Indians were a lesser race, he affirmed their full humanity, and ... their entitlement to all human rights. For his writings on human equality and his defense of the right to religious freedom, Las Casas deserves to be remembered as a political philosopher of extreme significance in the history of ideas.
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Las Casas was almost as well-known a writer as he was an activist humanitarian. His most celebrated work was the magisterial three-volume Hístory of the Indies; among other writings were The Only Way to Bring People to Relígion and Treatises, Letters and Memoirs.
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Las Casas's theological insights went far beyond a simple affirmation of the Indians' human dignity. Identifying the Indians with the poor, in the gospel sense, he argued that in their sufferings they represented the crucified Christ. He wrote, "I leave in the Indies Jesus Christ, our God, scourged and afflicted and beaten and crucified not once, but thousands of times."
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Westward Look Resort is another historical venture in Casas Adobes. Westward Look began nearly a century ago as a dude ranch in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. The resort continues to attract tourists from around the country as a rustic getaway.
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This experience launched Las Casas on his lifelong crusade against mistreatment of Indians, as exemplified by two institutions known as the encomienda and the repartimiento. The former referred to lands "commended" to settlers and the latter to the requirement that Indians work these lands for little or no pay and frequently under the lash.
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