Re: More expressions of love from the religion of Peace
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Hizztory teacher
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Date: June 26, 2016 06:30AM
Muslims may be bad but they got nothing on us Christians. Just one example of Christian violence,
"Cultural clashes between Christian-European settlers and Natives lasted for over four hundred years – small battles, large scale wars and forced labor systems on large estates, also known as encomiendas – took a large toll on the Native American population.
Throughout the Northeast, proclamations to create ‘redskins’, or scalps of Native Americans, were common during war and peace times. According to the 1775 Phips Proclamation in Massachusetts, King George II of Britain called for “subjects to embrace all opportunities of pursuing, captivating, killing and destroying all and every of the aforesaid Indians.”
Colonists were paid for each Penobscot Native American they killed – fifty pounds for adult male scalps, twenty-five for adult female scalps, and twenty for scalps of boys and girls under age twelve. These proclamations explicitly display the Christian settlers’ “intent to kill”, a major indicator of genocidal acts."