Religion In The Comics - 049

[Cartoonist]

Here are some excerpts from a great newspaper strip from the 30's. It featured historical biographies and stories of nation building. Several years worth can be found here:
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=58434



I love that bit about burning the old wooden idols. A 10th century ISIS.




Incredible arrogance! Naming the land, and thenceforth the people after a European. That they still call themselves Phillipinos is an injustice waiting to be righted..

[mr blur]

1. "Incredible arrogance" is right.

"Authentic" Polish history began with Jebus worship?

[onager]

2. How we and Jebus beat the heathen natives...

American Soldiers in the Philippines Write Home about the War

Fred D. Sweet, of the Utah Light Battery: "The scene reminded me of the shooting of jack-rabbits in Utah, only the rabbits sometimes got away, but the insurgents did not."

Leonard F. Adams, of Ozark, in the Washington Regiment: "I don’t know how many men, women, and children the Tennessee boys did kill. They would not take any prisoners..."

Theodore Conley, of a Kansas Regiment: "Talk about dead Indians! Why, they are lying everywhere. The trenches are full of them...

There is not a feature of the whole miserable business that a patriotic American citizen, one who loves to read of the brave deeds of the American colonists in the splendid struggle for American independence, can look upon with complacency, much less with pride. This war is reversing history. It places the American people and the government of the United States in the position occupied by Great Britain in 1776. It is an utterly causeless and defenseless war, and it should be abandoned by this government without delay. The longer it is continued, the greater crime it becomes—a crime against human liberty as well as against Christianity and civilization...Those not killed in the trenches were killed when they tried to come out..."

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/58/

And the author forgot to mention one thing those "stalwart Malays" brought to the Philippines: Islam, the first monotheistic religion to invade the Islands.

[edhopper]

3. "Crude images of their barbaric gods."

Did any of them read the Old Testament for barbaric?

And today the Philippines whole heartedly embrace the oppressive religion of their conquerors.

Has some of the strictest abortion laws on the planet.

The present Constitution of the Philippines, adopted in 1987, pronounces as among the policies of the State that "[The State] shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_the_Philippines