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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Humble Appologies ! Are they enough ?



Pope Franciskus is in Bolivia, visiting one of the poorest countries in South America and on this occasion he spoke to a large crowd in Santa Cruz and said:

I am telling you humbly and with deep regret that many serious sins have been committed on the Aborigines of your country, in the name of the Lord.“

It seems to me that now, that he is in South America, he might also stop over in North America where he could offer these same „humble appologies“, since North American natives were killed by the thousands, in many cases because they would not swear off their Gods and refused to accept the God of Love, Jesus.

At the beginning of the 17th Century a colourful – in the worst sense – group of pirates and slave traders along with some honest-men settlers landed on the East Coast of North America.
This motley crew of adventurers was accompanied and in many cases lead by Christian Clergy.
Christian soldiers savaged the land and killed and raped its natives and all this savagery was sanctioned by „Holy Mother Church“ !

Not since the murderous crusades, when Pope Urban II organized the invasion of the Muslim world, was the killing of an indigenous population performed in such a systematic manner.

As a side light it may also be interesting to note that Evo Morales, communist President of Bolivia, presented the Pope with a telling memento of his visit: A cross formed of a „hammer and sickle“.

Doesn't it just all jive ?

Asks
Bertstravels.


July 2015

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