Ratzi: those Indians wanted to be Catholic. Do we have some more blankets around here somewhere? May 19, 2007
Posted by Evil Bender in bigotry, wingnuts.trackback
And people wonder why I have such contempt for the man.
Pope Benedict XVI told Latin American bishops in Brazil that American Indians had been “silently longing” to become Christians 500 years ago…
Our correspondent said Pope Benedict also made no mention of the violent history that followed or the documented decimation of native cultures in favour of the Christian model Conquistadores and other Europeans colonisers.
Violence in the name of other peoples’ gods, not okay. Violence in the name of one’s own god, perfectly acceptable.
Maybe he was having a flashback to his Hitler Youth days?
This reminds me of one of my pet peeves: misuse of “decimate.” What the Church did to the indigenous peoples in the Americas was much, much worse than decimation, which simply means “killing every tenth person.” Know your Latin, people. :-)
Oh, feh. Decimate, devastate, decapitate — what’s the difference?
*weeps for humanity*
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