We have learned that throughout history Europeans have promoted false stories to show European exceptionalism and native ferocity, thus giving the world the imagination of colonization as a just cause . Witgen showed the natives as equal to the Europeans. He also provided examples of how Europeans were forced to work with natives based on basic native rules at many stages of early America. A good example of a European justification for the conquest of the natives was religion. The Jesuits, for example, felt that it was their God-given mission to civilize these inferior natives. As stated in this quote: "For the Jesuits the horrors of the natives' suffering seemed to be equaled by their own horror at finding themselves charged with the task of converting such a barbarous people to Christianity and a civilized life." In this case the Jesuits use religion as a means of justification for colonization. In this case, gender is used through religion to show power over a supposedly weaker people. As we know in Christianity, God is the father and the priests represent God on earth. So, in the name of God, father and creator of all peoples, these Jesuits are civilizing the Native Americans, doing them the honorable service of bringing them salvation. At least that was the idea. Gender plays a huge role in religion, because God is said to have taken the form of a male human. Consequently all this