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Old 11-05-2007, 04:29 PM   #74 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fxashun View Post
You are calling the genocide of the Indians something done in the name of "Christianity"? You have got to be kidding me.


No Fx, I am not kidding you.

Here read these bits on the topic of how Christianity addressed the Native Americans.

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From the book : Flyboys.
p. 12, cont.

"Alexis de Tocqueville, the perspective chronicler of early America, noted that he often heard fine Christian Americans casually discuss the extermination of Indians:

'This world here belongs to us, they add. God, in refusing the first inhabitants the capacity to become civilized, has destined them in advance to inevitable destruction. The true owners of this continent are those who know how to take advantage of its riches. Satisfied with this reasoning, the American goes to the church, where he hears a minister of the Gospel repeat to him that men are brothers and that the Ethernal Being, who made them all in the same mould, has imposed on them the duty to help one another.'"

p. 13, cont.

Teddy (Roosevelt), like so many of his countrymen, found nothing wrong in even the most barbaric American actions. In December of 1864, an audience in a Denver theater applauded wildly as on stage an ordained Methodist minister displayed the results of the latest encounter between the civilized races and the Others. The minister's name was John Chivington - Preacher John. Preacher John was a volunteer in the cavalry. Days earlier, he had led an attacking party to Sand Creek, Colorado, where they had surprised and massacred at least 150 Indian children, women, and old men. The braves had been away hunting.

What elicited the roars of approval from the Denver theater audience was not just Preacher John's tale of "victory" but the grisly evidence. A pile of hacked Indian penises brought laughter. Applause greeted American soldiers who displayed hats over which they had stretched the vaginal skin of Indian women.

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Teddy Roosevelt not only approved of this atrocity, he thought it was one of the single great moments in American history. About the Sand Creek massacre he said, "In spite of certain most objectionable details... it was on the whole as righteous and beneficial a deed as ever took place on the frontier."
Almost the entire West was ethnically cleansed of Indians in the same manner..."

** ** I took the liberty to search for the critical text and copy and paste from Bartcop Reader: Student Travel Services, Family Travel rather than to type it all from my son's book...

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