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With today’s event (sat April 30), they invited a colonized Indian preacher of Christianity to speak. This is a slap in the face to people like me and all the ancestors in the spirit world. I no longer feel invited to watch.
You have to understand, Christianity was the false religion the invaders brought with them from across the sea, forced Indian people to learn and worship against our will. Deemed all our people “savages”, “heathens” and “infidels” “without god” and therefore non-human. The Roman Catholic Church used the fact that we were without “Christ” to enact the Doctrine of so called “Discovery” and deemed our true and real spiritually, devil worship and Indian nations void of “true god” and they used this great lie to claim our lands “void” or “terra nullius”. The terrorist organization from Europe, known as the colonial US “government” banned and outlawed our spiritual dances based on that false religion. They stole our children, beat and molested them in the name of so called “Christianity.” In no other name have so many people been slaughtered than in the name of so called Christ. There’s truly no close second either.
All the ancestors in the spirit world left the pow wow today. Therefore, so did I. I am ashamed for the organizers to have invited him to speak such vile, filth. They should have known how insulting so many Indian people would find that! Damn them. What’s the point? All for what? Anyone who wants to hear those colonial lies can go to any of the millions of churches spread all across colonialism and listen to that garbage all they want! They didn’t have to force that bible thumping shit on us at a pow wow. A pow wow ain’t no place for false religion! Damn them.
What? Just because they don’t teach you this in church, doesn’t mean it’s not true. It’s just the same as the foreign US terrorists calling themselves a “government” from Europe, didn’t teach you real history in school either.
That’s because cowards (your church leaders and your terrorist US so called “government” leaders, yes. I’m calling them all cowards and I’m right!) can’t face truth and reality. Not because I speak lies.
Read it for yourself. Take a print to church and confront your priest (or whatever your sermons leader is called) with it and watch him cower.
Whatever. I’m done. Watch it all you want for those interested. I guess it’s more a settler event now anyway. Decolonized Indians like me sure as hell don’t feel invited anymore. Screw it. I don’t know why they felt they needed to do that. Why? Oh well, whatever. I tried to shrug it off but I couldn’t. I know too much to do that. I know how harmful that lie of Christ is. It’s the granddaddy lie, the greedy and power mongers used to steal it all from us.
Settler colonialism is a vile, racist, dehumanizing infection. Settlers are not alone with being infected. Just like covid-19, it doesn’t discriminate.
I don’t mean to purposely offend any Christians, but you’ve got to understand my perspective. If the script were flipped, you’d be pissed too. You have to understand, I didn’t purposely watch a church sermon to offend myself. It was needlessly infiltrated in a place where I was seeking true spirituality.
Watch the livestream all weekend long my relatives, of the largest pow wow on turtle island HERE:
Good luck, young ladies! You’re all already winners. You’re all beautiful and make all our ancestors very proud.
Dance, my beautiful Indian sisters, for your communities and to be seen by your loved ones, and be seen by those who live in the spirit world.
Sing, my beautiful Indian sisters, so that you may be heard by the ancestors who guide your footsteps to walk in a good way. A way of love, honor, truth, humbleness and compassion for all.
Show Indian country and the entire world that you are strong survivors of genocide and you will not be denied humanity!
The Wabanaki Nations are here for you in the dawnland, holding up the sky. May not only my Mi’kmaq ancestors, but may all the Indian ancestors of all Indian nations, smile down upon you from the unseen world. Show the world that we are still here and we are strong! YEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYEYE!!!!!!!!..(read more at source)
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Christianity is targeted by critics of colonialism because the tenets of the religion were used to justify the actions of the colonists.
Falola cites Jan H. Boer of the Sudan United Mission as saying, "Colonialism is a form of imperialism based on a divine mandate and designed to bring liberation – spiritual, cultural, economic and political – by sharing the blessings of the Christ-inspired civilization of the West with a people suffering under satanic oppression, ignorance and disease, effected by a combination of political, economic and religious forces that cooperate under a regime seeking the benefit of both ruler and ruled."
Michael Wood asserts that the indigenous peoples were not considered to be human beings and that the colonisers was shaped by "centuries of Ethnocentrism, and Christian monotheism, which espoused one truth, one time and version of reality."
During the Age of Discovery, the Catholic Church inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the Native Americans and other indigenous people.
Christian Missions to the indigenous peoples ran hand-in-hand with the colonial efforts of Catholic nations.
Christian leaders and Christian doctrines have been accused of justifying and perpetrating violence against Native Americans found in the New World.
The Native Americans only gave way to the force of the European after they were overcome with the diseases the Europeans had spread. The Evangelization of the natives in the Americas began with private colonization. The Crown tried to establish rules to protect the natives against any unjust war of conquest. The Spanish could start a war against those who rejected the kings authority and who were aware and also rejected Christianity. There was a doctrine developed that allowed the conquest of natives if they were uncivilized.
Friars and Jesuits learned native languages instead of teaching the natives Spanish because they were trying to protect them from the colonists’ negative influences. In addition, the missionaries felt it was important to show the positive aspects of the new religion to the natives after the epidemics and harsh conquest that had just occurred.
A large body of scientific work exists examining entanglements between Jesuit missions, western science emanating from Jesuit-founded universities, colonization and globalization. Since the global Jesuit network grew so large as to necessitate direct connections between branches without passing though Vatican, Jesuit order can be seen as one of the earliest examples of global organizations and globalization.
Christianity and colonialism
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In my opinon,one root of the church is colonization that type of voice has no place at our cultural events. I feel for the individuals my brother's and sisters who follow anything church not our way period.
As they have always, the church is guilty of many horrible acts committed against indigenous people.
It seems there are two issues here. One is about Christianity itself ( and what the followers of
Christianity have done ) and the other has to do with having a Christian pastor come and pray and speak at the Pow Wow. I realize the two issues do overlap, but just to add a thought….So let me ask, would a Christian pastor allow an Indigenous person to come and pray Indigenous prayers in their Church? I think the answer to that is pretty clear. So, in the same way, it seems that at a PowWow it should be prayers offered by those for whom the PowWow is meant and in the traditions being honored? . Even without all the negative history and triggering, just to consider the simple fact that there is a time and place for everything.
If someone believes in Christianity and goes to a Church, that is their personal choice. But just like everything and every place has it's purpose, a PowWow has it's own roots and purpose. It is my understanding that the purpose is for the First Nations peoples to honor and celebrate who they are.
All are welcome to come, but the voices that speak should be for the purpose of honoring the PowWow and it's own traditions. At least that is how it seems to me.
And here's another thought….if there is a Christian pastor, maybe there needs to be a Jewish Rabbi, or a Muslim or a Hindu or…………where does that road stop?
Many years ago I attended a PowWow ( I won't say where as I don't want to offend ) that had been so Christianized that it felt like milk that had been so watered down it no longer tasted like milk at all. The whole spirit of the community had been lost and I did not see a lot of happiness or spirit. It made me sad. Again, I don't say this against Christianity but that maybe milk is best to be as it is…milk. And water , water.? Let each be strong in it's own way. Anyway, others may disagree, but those are just my own thoughts.
I hope these words have not offended anyone. I simply offer these words in peace.
Us Natives have their own way!
not hollajuha way.
come'on now
dont colonize
dont turn ta the dark side.
Keep tha native spirit alive in your heart young ladies. You were here before religion….
Breaks my heart and makes me sick to hear about this happening.
At such a powerful, healing and spiritual event had to be ruined with such a disrespectful act.
Again I'm so sorry to hear about this
We all bleed red. I only see spirits…
As a person of non indigious ancestry from aspergers spectrum community I grappled with a lot of deep internal questions as to the deep historical impact christian religious institutions have brought upon my own internal perceptions and stereotypes and how they impacted how I see the world around me (and why they may have had an impact upon what europeans label my own so called developmental disabilities as I struggled with and reflected concerns about there ethical layers (wrong structure) of course that resulted in shunning.issues when I was growing up. The deep embedded issues of the dualism perspectives they had impact upon people's exposed to them. the "Us and Them" issue. being aware of the layers that are embedded within the Actions that are known of as the "Doctrine of Discovery" that really should really in all honesty called the "Doctrine of "Dom"ination" these influence layers have even had a deep impact upon the corruption of Native stories to misrepresent the polarization of Christian concept of "Good and Evil" Example https://youtu.be/F6EJE92EwAA?t=964 The other concern reflected to me by a female elder in the Dawnland community was the "Beauty pageant being crowned a miss native "princess"angle. and its impact upon indigious personhood values.. Steven newcomb reflected the Word Colonization like many latin words contains embedded language with the word "Colon" representing the digestive tract of "body politic" being applied upon the people impacted.. very disrespectful and deeply upsetting on so many levels.. Steven newcomb reflects upon these underlying layers https://youtu.be/aRgcLfiew5I
I can understand where you are coming from. As a mixed blood who has been influenced by the US educational system, raised as a Californian, and never shown any true traditions or ways of our ancestors, I was also shown many religious paths, but never forced into any. Christianity always confused me. The Bible, being incomplete due to many sacred texts being removed and hidden, has always been confusing and hard to understand completely. That is until I found the sacred knowledge stemming from Sanskrit. Knowing this ancient sacred way, it has helped me to understand the sacrifices of Sundance as well as the beauty and message of the Bible. Without the Vedas, none of it would have made sense to me.
The way I see it now, unless you are living off the land 100% and not utilizing the colonizers ways and technologies, that is the only way to claim not to be colonized. We live in interesting times now, where the past and the futures collide. As individuals we must choose for ourselves whether or not to become colonized. Whether or not to choose to be left in the past, or to embrace the future technology. Everyone here apparently has chosen to become colonized by the white man Bill G a t e s' Microsoft technology, and Edison's phone technology which has become cell phones in everyones hands…. such an easy way to track us all with GPS. And so many are ending up Missing and Murdered now. No matter what breed of human, Alll Of OUR CHILDREN are being stolen and trafficked right now. Not just the indigenous children.
For me, it's time to stop this arguement of colonization, as we realize we have all been colonized on this entire planet by the Global Elite. They just held the World Economic Forum (if you're really paying attention) and have outlined the entire world's future for all of us. It does not matter what path you were born into. We are all being targeted by this new Great Reset and the New World Order which will include a One World Government and a One World Religion. Everyone was just assimulated into this plan by participating in their Global World Order to force us all into masks and the white man has been welcomed into the reservations with their poisoinous jabs, and now this year the GON 2022 is tricking their own people to "protect" our children by giving them the white man's jab, which has failed disatrously.
Until we all realize we are all from the same Creator, then Creator will continue to put us into these paths of destruction and turmoil.
Until then, we will continue to stay far away from true unity of the humans and we will never experience true community. And we will always fight amongst our human bothers and sisters. I'm tired of fighting my brothers and sisters.
A'ho
Haribol
I was watching pow wow live when that happened I just didn’t wanna talk in the chat… but I understand why you had left the live cause I almost did too because Christianity is a false religion and used to slaughter and enslave our people to steal our country and ways cause this whole country belongs to us including the Rez…
Our people didn’t necessarily worship a god we have ceremonies and give thanks to the earth and our ancestors.. I’ve freed myself from Christianity years ago I’m just like you I respect people who wanna be apart of Christianity but I refuse to be apart of the religion… but you also have to understand boarding schools happened and genocide happened so I guess most of them feel like they rather stick to Christianity for different reasons like they could free themselves from it but some feel trapped in it I assume like my dad said everyone is basically mentally slaves cause some people fear to give up Christianity I didn’t mean it in a rude way ik my comment probably wouldn’t matter but if anyone responds please be respectful I just feel the need to speak my opinion A’ho 🏹
Yes. That is out of place. It’s too bad when believers use a public platform to promote Church. I have been a believer for over half my life. I am an Elder in my Tribe. I respect my people’s traditional way of life. I don’t force what I believe on anyone. I still dance and participate in my language and culture. I was taught to respect everyone, (if I could). 😉
White American Christianity Needs to Be Honest About Its History of White Supremacy
Hundreds of years ago, the Church laid the foundation for the theft of the Americas, enslavement of Africans and Native Americans, and centuries of brutal colonization worldwide, with the doctrine that it was O.K. to take land and liberty from people who were not Christian.
Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence reflects the strong influence of Christianity in the American colonies, by rooting the rights it demands in our status as creatures of God. But the Declaration of Independence also describes Native Americans as “merciless Indian savages,” and the Constitution defined African-Americans as only three-fifths of a person.
https://time.com/5929478/christianity-white-supremacy/
Like what they always say "KILL THE SAVAGE SAVE THE MAN" SMH .. how can a church say that to human life .. and they talk about the Bible and if u kill u will go to hell .. they confused
In 1986, the first apology for residential schools by any institution in Canada was from the United Church of Canada in Sudbury, Ontario. At the 1986 31st General Council, the United Church of Canada responded to the request of Indigenous peoples that it apologize to them for its part in colonization and adopted the apology. Rev. Bob Smith stated:
We imposed our civilization as a condition of accepting the gospel. We tried to make you be like us and in so doing we helped to destroy the vision that made you what you were. As a result, you, and we, are poorer and the image of the Creator in us is twisted, blurred, and we are not what we are meant by God to be. We ask you to forgive us and to walk together with us in the Spirit of Christ so that our peoples may be blessed and God's creation healed.
In 1991, at the National Meeting on Indian Residential Schools in Saskatoon, Canadian bishops and leaders of religious orders that participated in the schools issued an apology stating:
We are sorry and deeply regret the pain, suffering and alienation that so many experienced. We have heard their cries of distress, feel their anguish and want to be part of the healing process…we pledge solidarity with the aboriginal peoples in their pursuit of recognition of their basic human rights… urge the federal government to assume its responsibility for its part in the Indian Residential Schools… (and) urge our faith communities to become better informed and more involved in issues important to aboriginal peoples
On September 24, 2021, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a formal apology for residential schools stating "We, the Catholic Bishops of Canada, gathered in Plenary this week, take this opportunity to affirm to you, the Indigenous Peoples of this land, that we acknowledge the suffering experienced in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools. Many Catholic religious communities and dioceses participated in this system, which led to the suppression of Indigenous languages, culture and spirituality, failing to respect the rich history, traditions and wisdom of Indigenous Peoples. We acknowledge the grave abuses that were committed by some members of our Catholic community; physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, cultural, and sexual."
On August 6, 1993, at the National Native Convocation in Minaki, Ontario. Archbishop Michael Peers apologized to residential school survivors, on behalf of the Anglican Church of Canada.
On June 9, 1994, the Presbyterian Church in Canada adopted a confession at its 120th General Assembly in Toronto on June 5, recognizing its role in residential schools and seeking forgiveness. The confession was presented on October 8 during a ceremony in Winnipeg.
We ask, also, for forgiveness from Aboriginal peoples. What we have heard we acknowledge. It is our hope that those whom we have wronged with a hurt too deep for telling will accept what we have to say. With God's guidance our Church will seek opportunities to walk with Aboriginal peoples to find healing and wholeness together as God's people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
I don't believe in a spirit named Jesus Christ. However if I did, I wouldn't believe he would view Genocide as forgivable sin. If I were Jesus, I sure as hell know I wouldn't.
I wonder if all these false Christianity faiths have forgiven Hitler the Nazis and ISIS? If Genocide is forgivable, why do they ask Indians to go first? Why haven't they publicly forgiven Hitler? You know, set the example, since they're the "Civilized" ones and all.
How dare they beg us for forgiveness. How dare they!
If I were chief of my nation, there wouldn't be a church of Christianity allowed on sacred Indian lands, out of respect and honor for the thousands of my ancestors slaughtered in the name of Christ. There sure as hell would be no preachers of Christianity invited to sacred pow wows either. Any Indian of my nation, had I my way, would need to go to settler lands and worship that false religion there.
I will always consider an Indian Christian my equal, the same as I do settler Christians. I simply consider those Indian's spirits lost. Colonized. I too was once lost. I have set my spirit free. It is enteral and it does not require your Jesus's saving. I know this to be true because in the spirit world, there lives no greater spirit than mine, just as there lives no lesser spirits than my own. I see and feel the spirit world, the same as I do the human world, there is only equality. I know these truths because the trees tell me so. I know these truths because the wind tells me so. I know these truths because the lakes, ponds and rivers tell me so. I know these truths because mother earth tells me no lies, unlike humankind.
"kill the Indian in the child."
Attempts to assimilate Indigenous peoples were rooted in imperial colonialism centred around European worldviews and cultural practices, and a concept of land ownership based on the discovery doctrine.
"Underlying these arguments was the belief that the colonizers were bringing civilization to savage people who could never civilize themselves … a belief of racial and cultural superiority."
Students in the residential school system were faced with a multitude of abuses by teachers and administrators, including sexual and physical assault. They suffered from malnourishment and harsh discipline that would not have been tolerated in any other Canadian school system.
Corporal punishment was often justified by a belief that it was the only way to save souls or punish and deter runaways – whose injuries or death sustained in their efforts to return home would become the legal responsibility of the school. Overcrowding, poor sanitation, inadequate heating, and a lack of medical care led to high rates of influenza and tuberculosis; in one school, the death rate reached 69 percent. Federal policies that tied funding to enrollment numbers led to sick children being enrolled to boost numbers, thus introducing and spreading disease. The problem of unhealthy children was further exacerbated by the conditions of the schools themselves – overcrowding and poor ventilation, water quality and sewage systems.
Residential school deaths were common and have been linked to poorly constructed and maintained facilities.
Research by the TRC revealed that at least 3,201 students had died, mostly from disease. TRC chair Justice Murray Sinclair has suggested that the number of deaths may exceed 6,000.
The 1906 Annual Report of the Department of Indian Affairs, submitted by chief medical officer Peter Bryce, highlighted that the "Indian population of Canada has a mortality rate of more than double that of the whole population, and in some provinces
more than three times".
Survivors of residential schools and their families have been found to suffer from historical trauma with a lasting and adverse effect on the transmission of Indigenous culture between generations. A 2010 study led by Gwen Reimer explained historic trauma, passed on intergenerationally, as the process through which "cumulative stress and grief experienced by Aboriginal communities is translated into a collective experience of cultural disruption and a collective memory of powerlessness and loss". This trauma has been used to explain the persistent negative social and cultural impacts of colonial rule and residential schools, including the prevalence of sexual abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, lateral violence, mental illness and suicide among Indigenous peoples.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples. Attendance was mandatory from 1894 to 1947. The network was funded by the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches.
The school system was created to isolate Indigenous children from the influence of their own native culture and religion in order to assimilate them into the dominant Canadian culture. Over the course of the system's more than hundred-year existence, around 150,000 children were placed in residential schools nationally. By the 1930s about 30 percent of Indigenous children were believed to be attending residential schools. The number of school-related deaths remains unknown due to incomplete records. Estimates range from 3,200 to over 30,000.
The residential school system harmed Indigenous children significantly by removing them from their families, depriving them of their ancestral languages, and exposing many of them to physical and sexual abuse. Students were also subjected to forced enfranchisement as "assimilated" citizens that removed their legal identity as Indians. Disconnected from their families and culture and forced to speak English or French, students who attended the residential school system often graduated being unable to fit into their communities but remaining subject to racist attitudes in mainstream Canadian society. The system ultimately proved successful in disrupting the transmission of Indigenous practices and beliefs across generations. The legacy of the system has been linked to an increased prevalence of post-traumatic stress, alcoholism, substance abuse, suicide, and intergenerational trauma which persist within Indigenous communities today.
In 2021, thousands of unmarked graves were discovered on the grounds of former residential schools, and are continuing to be searched.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
The sexual abuse of indigenous children in boarding schools was set in the hands of those running and in charge of these programs. These adults who were their teachers, nuns, and priests performed these acts upon their students. They were touched and molested to be used as pleasure for these mentors who were supposed to educate them. Also used as objects and sexually abusing these students forming rotations to switch in and out whenever done sexually tormenting the next. These adults also used sexual abuse as a form of embarrassment towards each other. Tracing the Path of Violence Several students experienced an assault that, “can only be described as unconscionable, it was a violation not only of a child’s body but an assault on their spirit.” This act created a silent majority among the children who were victims in silence. This recurred throughout the boarding schools across the nation in different scenarios. Such as boys being sexually assaulted on their 13th birthdays to girls being forcibly taken at night by the priest to be used as objects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools
"A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one. In a sense, I agree with the sentiment, but only in this: that all the Indian there is in the race should be dead." – Richard Henry Pratt
Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families to attend these boarding schools to face stripping of their traditions by going through refinement and civilization. These schools stood as mental exhaustion for these students having to adapt to European ways in such a short time period while being so used to the way they were raised traditionally and culturally. These kids were sent to boarding school at such a young age that sparked high suicide rates. This also increased substance abuse within these students as they suffered severe disorders such as depression and PTSD posing as the main disorders several endured, increasing the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. The trauma they faced only advanced their severe depression causing suicidal thoughts and survivors were left vulnerable to serious PTSD.
American Indian boarding schools, also known more recently as American Indian Residential Schools, were established in the United States from the mid 17th to the early 20th centuries with a primary objective of "civilizing" or assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture. In the process, these schools denigrated Native American culture and made children give up their languages and religion. At the same time the schools provided a basic Western education. These boarding schools were first established by Christian missionaries of various denominations.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries especially, the government paid religious orders to provide basic education to Native American children on reservations, and later established its own schools on reservations.
Children were typically immersed in European-American culture. Schools forced removal of indigenous cultural signifiers: cutting the children's hair, having them wear American-style uniforms, forbidding them from speaking their indigenous languages, and replacing their tribal names with English-language names (saints names under some religious orders) for use at the schools, as part of assimilation and to "Christianize" them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools
U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries, according to researchers. Native American and Alaskan Native children were regularly severed from their tribal families, customs, language and religion and brought to the schools in a push to assimilate and Christianize them.
In Canada, where more than 150,000 Indigenous children attended residential schools over more than a century, a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission identified 3,201 deaths amid poor conditions.
The Jesuit-affiliated America Magazine is urging U.S. Catholic bishops not to repeat their mishandling of cases of child sex abuse by priests.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/churches-reckon-with-traumatic-legacy-of-boarding-schools
My Indian brothers, sisters and honorable two spirit relatives, set your spirits free once more. Let no church bind and own your spirit. For no human has any authority to grant you entrance to a place called heaven. You are already all granted access to the spirit world, directly from the great mystery. No further testing do Indian people require. Let your church be the air, the trees, the waters, the rocks and the grasses once more. Set your spirit free. Walk with me in love and truth, my relatives. Those before us are always here, walking with us. If we listen and connect, we will all live clean, healthy life's free from harmful drugs and other self inflicted harms, for this is the way of our ancestors.
I welcome my equal Christian settler relatives to recognize these truths. Accept them as you equally accept that Christ is your passage onto the world of spirits.
Msit No'Kmaq – All My Relations
The Doctrine of Discovery established a spiritual, political, and legal justification for colonization and seizure of land not inhabited by Christians.
https://upstanderproject.org/learn/guides-and-resources/first-light/doctrine-of-discovery
What? You didn't really still believe that "thanksgiving myth" enacted by DIS-honest Abe, did you? Terrorists organizations are not truth tellers. They're weak cowards. Yup. Truth bomb. I just called the US "government" weak cowards. Sure they can kill in mass but you still think that's "strong"? Killing isn't strength. It's uncivilized, weakness. Speaking and sharing truth as I do, this is true strength. The US "government" are no match for people like me. They can kill my body, at most. My spirit is eternal and I return stronger each time I return from the spirit world. I render them powerless cowards with my love and my truth. This is because I do not walk alone. I walk with the ancestors in the spirit world, rejecting hate, false religion, fraudulent genocidal based nations.
All Indians are just as powerful as I am. Some have just forgotten, or lost their way, this is the only difference. I am here to remind them all. Who our ancestors were. Who we still truly are.
According to the view of many historians, the Constantinian shift turned Christianity from a persecuted into a persecuting religion.
Miroslav Volf has identified the intervention of a "new creation", as in the Second Coming, as a particular aspect of Christianity that generates violence. Writing about the latter, Volf says: "Beginning at least with Constantine's conversion, the followers of the Crucified have perpetrated gruesome acts of violence under the sign of the cross. Over the centuries, the seasons of Lent and Holy Week were, for the Jews, times of fear and trepidation. Muslims also associate the cross with violence; crusaders' rampages were undertaken under the sign of the cross."
The statement attributed to Jesus "I come not to bring peace, but to bring a sword" has been interpreted by some as a call to arms for Christians.
The bloody history of the tradition has provided disturbing images and violent conflict is vividly portrayed in the Bible. This history and these biblical images have provided the raw material for theologically justifying the violence of contemporary Christian groups. For example, attacks on abortion clinics have been viewed not only as assaults on a practice that Christians regard as immoral, but also as skirmishes in a grand confrontation between forces of evil and good that has social and political implications."
In 1095, at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II declared that some wars could be deemed as not only a bellum iustum ("just war"), but could, in certain cases, rise to the level of a bellum sacrum (holy war). Jill Claster, dean of New York University College of Arts and Science, characterizes this as a "remarkable transformation in the ideology of war", shifting the justification of war from being not only "just" but "spiritually beneficial".
The Spanish Inquisition is often cited in popular literature and history as an example of Catholic intolerance and repression. The total number of people who were processed by the Inquisition throughout its history was approximately 150,000; applying the percentages of executions that appeared in the trials of 1560–1700—about 2%—the approximate total would be about 3,000 of them were put to death. However, the actual death toll was probably higher, according to the data which Dedieu and García Cárcel provided to the tribunals of Toledo and Valencia, respectively.
In the Portuguese Inquisition, the major targets were people who had converted from Judaism to Catholicism, the Conversos, also known as New Christians or Marranos, because they were suspected of secretly practising Judaism. Many of these people were originally Spanish Jews, who had left Spain for Portugal.
Based on the records that survive, H. P. Salomon and Rabbi Isaac S.D. Sassoon state that between the Inquisition's beginning in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, some 16,202 persons were brought to trial by the Inquisition. Of this number, 57 of them were sentenced to death and executed, and another 64 were burned in effigy (this sentence was imposed on those persons who had either fled or died in prison; in the latter case, the executed person's remains and the effigy were both placed in a coffin and burned at the same time). Others were subjected to lesser punishments or penance, but the fate of many of those who were tried by the Inquisition is unknown.
During the second half of the 16th century, the Roman Inquisition was responsible for prosecuting individuals who were accused of committing a wide range of crimes which were related to religious doctrine, alternative religious doctrine or alternative religious beliefs. Out of 51,000–75,000 cases which were judged by the Inquisition in Italy after 1542, around 1,250 of them resulted in death sentences.
The period of witch trials in Early Modern Europe was a widespread moral panic caused by the belief that malevolent Satanic witches were operating as an organized threat to Christendom from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
Many people faced capital punishment if they were convicted of witchcraft during this period, either by being burned at the stake, hanged on the gallows, or beheaded. Similarly, in the New England Colonies, people convicted of witchcraft were hanged (See Salem witch trials). The scholarly consensus on the total number of executions for witchcraft ranges from 40,000 to 60,000.
The legal basis for some inquisitorial activity came from Pope Innocent IV's papal bull Ad extirpanda of 1252, which explicitly authorized (and defined the appropriate circumstances for) the use of torture by the Inquisition for eliciting confessions from heretics.
When a suspect was convicted of unrepentant heresy, the inquisitorial tribunal was required by law to hand the person over to the secular authorities for final sentencing, at which point a magistrate would determine the penalty, which was usually burning at the stake although the penalty varied based on local law.
Over the centuries, these attitudes were reinforced by Christian preaching, art and popular teaching, all of which expressed contempt for Jews.
Modern antisemitism has primarily been described as hatred against Jews as a race, a form of racism, rather than hatred against Jews as a religious group, because its modern expression is rooted in 18th century racial theories, while anti-Judaism is described as hostility towards the Jewish religion, a sentiment which is rooted in but more extreme than criticism of Judaism as a religion, but in Western Christianity, anti-Judaism was transformed into antisemitism during the 12th century.
Christianity and violence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence
The Nyarubuye massacre is the name which is given to the killing of an estimated 20,000 civilians on April 15, 1994 at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarubuye_massacre
Accepting the Unacceptable: Christian Churches and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
https://www.e-ir.info/2020/08/09/accepting-the-unacceptable-christian-churches-and-the-1994-rwandan-genocide/
I dance and go to powwows but I also go to church, I accept both as is. I don’t make conflict with either of them. I enjoy both with my whole heart. I get trashed on bc of it but I really love powwow💕💕💕
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Crowning of Miss Indian World 2022-2023 Saturday, April 30th 7:00pm – I'm assuming that's 7pm there in the ancestral territories of the Navajo, Apache, Pueblo, UTE and a few other nations, also (disrespectfully) known as colonial "New Mexico, USA" by the settlers and their foreign government from Europe.
I call it disrespectfully re-named by colonizers because it's neither new nor Mexico, is it? It's been home to these nations and others since time immemorial. Provided to them directly from the great mystery in the spirit world. No humans hold any authority to remove their stewardship. It's been entrusted to them for thousands of years.
Could you imagine China invading the US, pushing you out of "New Mexico" on "US reservations", deeming you "American savages" Deeming your religion of Christianity, the devils worship and then renaming your colony a China phrase? Worst still, they force China citizenship upon you and your children without your consent and then tell you, "you lost the war, get over it". How would that make you feel? Genocide and land theft is not "war." There are no victors to Genocide. No one is winning. In settler colonialism, we all fail. This is because Genocide is a failure of humanity itself. Nothing "good" comes from it. Especially not the "USA" – A nation always at war. Especially not the "USA" – A nation that continues to be at Genocide with it's neighbors, the Indian Nations, treating us as their "dependent nations." That mindset if the mindset of folks like Adolf Hitler. Where do you think he got the idea from? Yes, he admired the genocide of the American Indians by the US terrorist organization, who claim to be a "government".
So then we're all left asking ourselves a very important question; Who was worse, the ancestors who invaded, colonized, dehumanized and slaughtered Indians, or their descendants who continue to normalize it today. The ones who look away, and continue to benefit from all the riches and the rewards that all the current Indian lands of Turtle Island are providing them?
If you're new here. This is the type of channel this is. It's a channel of decolonization. I am here to help you see the evil injustice of what is settler colonialism, The United Sates of America, Canada and other nations, their very selves. I am someone who helps remove boiling frogs from the water, helps you to cool off, then toss you back into the hot water so that you may feel it and realize it's hot! Better jump out before you are cooked alive.
You'll have to be a fellow Indian to understand or a VERY, VERY, brave settler, as I help you face the truth about the USA and nations like it, formed from mass genocide. Most folks can't handle these truths. If you can, subscribe and I'll show you far more as you watch my videos. Things your corrupt, colonial governments didn't teach you in school. I will ALWAYS provide a source, either upon posted or requested. I will tell you this however; If you simply google anything I have to say, you'll be able to verify the things I have to say are truthful.
Often, I will then state my opinion below a fact I post to show my Indian perspective, which is basically just the reality, with the corrupt US "govs" propaganda stripped from it. "Left" or "right" colonial BS concerns me not. You'll have to leave that garbage behind if you want to learn the truth. That type of division isn't how we gather and communicate in Indian country. In Indian country, we're all on the same side. This side is neither your right nor your left. That mentality is corruption of the Iroquois, that the foreign terrorist organization claim to copy. They couldn't form their own government, so tried to copy one from Indians. They sure as hell got that wrong too, let me tell you.
one word – Vibrant
I definitely forgot what I was doing for a second. 🙂
Very cool.