RE: America a christian nation?
June 17, 2014 at 6:24 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2014 at 6:27 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(June 17, 2014 at 6:13 pm)ShaMan Wrote:(June 17, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Native-americans were horribly treated... much as indigenous peoples everywhere were treated by conquering powers.Agreed.
(June 17, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: That said, I don't think their folklore is any more reliable than any other and oral or written does not matter. Such tales serve the needs of the authors.All emotion and personal experience aside. I've personally read manuscripts from the past 1,100 years (13 generations) of my direct forefathers, and without exception the accounts are perfectly matched without fault or alteration. The same cannot be said for most other traditions, and especially Christianity.
I'm not looking for debate, nor do I ask for sympathy. My purpose here is a peaceful one, and if my presentation of what my people call history is offensive, then perhaps the dissidence lies deeper.
I'm saying that I trust my fathers more than I trust their arbiters, and for well documented historical reasons.
You understand the only writting in the Americas 1100 years ago belong to the Maya in Yucatan, right? Nothing whatsoever had been shown to have been written about natives Americans north of Mexico until roughly 500 years ago, and then by the unreliable christians, right?
If you have Native American writting from North America dating back 1100 years, by all means present it and have its age authenticated. You personally will go down in history if you succeed in producing native north american writting 1,100 years old.