Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
On Spiritual Genocide
So: at a recent meeting with Indigenous Canadian leaders, the pope apologized for some of the unspeakable things that some representatives of the Church perpetrated on Indigenous children at residential schools.
Well, isn't that big of him?
Note what he did not apologize for: the spiritual genocide that the Church has, throughout the centuries, perpetrated upon the First Nations of America.
He didn't apologize for it, because he can't. The church that he heads owes its very existence to spiritual genocide. Like Islam, the world's other major imperialist religion, the existence of Christianity as a mass phenomenon has been historically premised on the spiritual genocide of Indigenous peoples.
In this, as in so many other things, pagans stand with the First Nations of the Americas. We must, because we've been there too.
“Pope Apologizes to First Nations of Europe for Church's Spiritual Genocide.”
Now there's a headline you won't be seeing anytime soon.
Above:
Drum circle in St. Peter's Square
Vatican City
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/01/1090213962/pope-francis-apology-indigenous-people-canada
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