Christian Colonialism Then and Now Kills People and Our Planet Christian missionaries throughout the
Christian Colonialism Then and Now Kills People and Our Planet Christian missionaries throughout the United States worked vigorously to convert.
August 12, 2021
by Warren Blumenfeld
Outside the Bible Church in Wilson County, Tennessee, the pastor posted a large white sign stuck on the lawn with bold black letters announcing:
Kindly Remove Them or Stay in your car.
We Celebrate FAITH over FEAR.
On its website:
We would like to welcome you to our church. We accept everyone just as they are, but we love you too much to let you stay that way. Come and grow with us as we seek Gods will and show His love. Pastor Greg and Taisha
My response to Pastor Greg and Taisha:
By your non-mask (possibly non-vaccine) policy, they come to you living but [you] love [them] too much to let them stay that way [alive]. You are complicit in genocide. Shame on you!!!! Warren Blumenfeld
I certainly felt no surprise by the statement that they were not going to let people stay that way since the entire history of the Christian church is based on changing people to be like, act like, believe like, and live like its concept of reality the one and only possible reality. This has been the very basis of religious colonialism, and particularly Christian colonialism on each of the populated continents.
Christian Colonialism:
The verb to colonize can be described as the process of appropriating a place or domain to establish political and economic control. Throughout history, nations have invaded not only their neighbors lands, but also territories clear across the globe for their own use.
During the practice, the dominant nation attempts to colonize not only indigenous peoples domains (territorial imperialism), but also their minds, their customs, their language, in fact, their very way of life. In countries with a historical legacy of colonization, and even in those without this history, members of dominant groups have accumulated unearned privileges not accorded to others.
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In 1790, the newly constituted United States Congress passed the Naturalization Act, which excluded all nonwhites from citizenship, including Asians, enslaved Africans, and Native Americans, the later whom they defined in oxymoronic terms as domestic foreigners, even though they had inhabited this land for thousands of years. The Congress did not grant Native Americans rights of citizenship until 1924 with the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, though Asians continued to be denied naturalized citizenship status.
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(130,746 posts)which excluded all nonwhites from citizenship, including Asians, enslaved Africans, and Native Americans, the later whom they defined in oxymoronic terms as domestic foreigners, even though they had inhabited this land for thousands of years. The Congress did not grant Native Americans rights of citizenship until 1924 with the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act, though Asians continued to be denied naturalized citizenship status.