Primeria Missa No Brazil Religion

Christian faith was connected with the subjection of population on both sides of Atlantic to an ideology that considered labor as God’s punishment for Adam’s sins” . You can compare this to the religious mission of Portuguese living in Brazil. There is an oil painting by Victor Meirelles call Primeria Missa no Brazil which represent that the Portuguese their personal motives and as well as their religious mission. The painting exhibits these themes as the artist illustrates that the bandeirantes and the priest are looking directly at crucifix and praying with religious devotion while the natives around seems confused and seem to demonstrate numerous reactions. There is one person with headdress is not even facing the cross but looking to the left of the crucifix while other people seems to be amazed by the appearance of the Europeans and what they are wearing and show no interest in the prayer that is being performed. This painting is an example of that
The Portuguese are in the portion of the painting while indigenous fill the area on the ground around them. To support what was shown in Meirelles’s painting, Muriel begin her essay by “that the Indians were the most profitable property in the land” this further clarify that the Portuguese had absolutely no what so ever interest in their culture or beliefs which is not surprising, since throughout the sixteen century we see a rise in the native slavery. The introduction to Catholicism to indigenous was very violent and almost erased all other religions and cultural traditions of those communities. Europeans used religion to justify their actions or perhaps it was an act of race that caused explorers to completely block out and starts to the destruction of indigenous ideologies and their faith. There were no efforts made to comprehend their cultural. It could have that they thought that their beliefs and traditions were