Coming from the Western Hemisphere, I've seen a lot of religiosity. The USA is the land of the Freedom of Religion. It's there in the Bill of Rights as the very First Amendment. But I've had people in my life all across the board religiously. But talk about a land of double standards! They'll hang a picture of Moses in Congress, (Saw this cause, I saw Pope Francis mention it and point it out in his address) And yeah he may "make nice" with Jews and Muslims, but then he just Cannonized Junipero Serra, responsible for Californian Indigenous Genocide...he "cares" about Indigenous people, but only insomuch as we make "Good Converts" to Christianity.
So I say this "representative" of Yeshua, can just go back to Rome and "Pontificate" some more. His "Truth" is blind to Indigenous realities and peoples. We have always been seen as "part of the land", but we are Rising up! #RedTideRising #Native Lives Matter
I used to try to apply Biblical Standards to my life, but then I realized that it's like Louise Erdrich points out in her book "the Painted Drum" that book is rated R... I've tried to study with Mormons, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Lutherans and Baptists. Each of them believe something quite different from the other, and some like to "fight" the others...
I've come to the conclusion that while I'd like to believe....all evidence says that Christianity on the whole has been too diluted and diverted by contact with pre-Contact European paganism. (Hellenized, for lack of a better term.) Christianity started as a bunch of disparate groups, some more gnostic in flavor, some less so....just look at the history! Jesus chilled with Essenes and that's probably why he butted heads with the Jewish religious Establishment.
Do I really want to apply standards of genocide to my life? I don't think Jesus would want me to do that.
Red Sky Boy's take...
So I say this "representative" of Yeshua, can just go back to Rome and "Pontificate" some more. His "Truth" is blind to Indigenous realities and peoples. We have always been seen as "part of the land", but we are Rising up! #RedTideRising #Native Lives Matter
I used to try to apply Biblical Standards to my life, but then I realized that it's like Louise Erdrich points out in her book "the Painted Drum" that book is rated R... I've tried to study with Mormons, Evangelicals, Roman Catholics and Lutherans and Baptists. Each of them believe something quite different from the other, and some like to "fight" the others...
I've come to the conclusion that while I'd like to believe....all evidence says that Christianity on the whole has been too diluted and diverted by contact with pre-Contact European paganism. (Hellenized, for lack of a better term.) Christianity started as a bunch of disparate groups, some more gnostic in flavor, some less so....just look at the history! Jesus chilled with Essenes and that's probably why he butted heads with the Jewish religious Establishment.
Do I really want to apply standards of genocide to my life? I don't think Jesus would want me to do that.
#Anishinaabe Pride