The war between Christianity and the Indigenous people of the western hemisphere has been one of the world's longest wars. Beginning with the enslavement of the first Indigenous members of the western hemisphere to the imprisonment of the Indigenous children of Canada.
In the process of this proselytizing, the Church, any church, has destroyed the core value system of the American Indian. Hoping to replicate that system with the word of God as envisioned by the church leaders. But the church has bastardized the word of God and it's original purpose by imposing their own morals and values as the covenant.
Christopher Columbus's goal was not to advocate for religion, it was to find silk from China. He did not enable Christianity but rather induced the slave trade by abducting the Taino natives.
In John Hagee's book "Jerusalem Countdown," (A Prelude to War), (2006,2007), he interviews Bridgette Gabriel about the population explosion among the Muslims and "...terrorists breeding terrorists..." in the middle east and the world. Citing the Muslim's multiple wives protocol as the reason for the explosion and the problem it creates for Christian survival.
This same type of antagonistic Christian thinking in the western hemisphere was one impetus for a widespread pogrom of sterilization among Native women. Where mass assimilation and cultural indoctrination did not work in the "civilizing" of the Native populations, genetic annihilation and female sterilization became the Christian duty.
As one of the largest corporations in the world during the 15th century the Church had to expand it's reign and thereby increase their resources, and silver and gold was always a power base for the church.
The exploitation of the New World afforded the church an opportunity to expand it's power base and increase it's influence over the monarchy in charge. The monarchy in turn believed in the holy blessings of the church as they became the frontrunners for a new world order. "With God on Our side" became the ulterior mantra of the day, while the administrators dribbled a saliva of greed and gluttony.
New World documents such as the Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and the Magna Carta became the tools of legitimacy in the church's headlong foray into it's evangelical work with the heathen, savage races of sub-human's, who obviously were in dire need of Jesus Christ and God Almighty.
The existentialist spirituality of the Indigenous communities of the western hemisphere have always been innate. They make up the longest and most enduring of spiritual realms of the world. They still exist. They are pre-Columbian and post-Wounded Knee.
The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 reaffirmed this existence.
When the Jesuits and other evangelists made virgin contact with the Indigenous populace the assumption was that there was a sub-human race that had populated this wilderness and their way of life must be eradicated physically and spiritually.
And eradicate they did, by fire, gun, cross, water, oil, disease, slavery, rape, pedophilia, forced labor and by eating the spirits of the true Indigenous people's of the western hemisphere.
And they are still eating.
But we are still here.
