On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 02:49:23 p.m. CDT, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: Justin Trudeau and the powers that be in Ottawa must have heard the constant and strident complaints of Eddie D’Sa in London England and to placate him they have named Canada’s first female and Indigenous Governor-General.
So, like the famous corrupted quote of James Baldwin “When the White Man Came to Africa he had the bible and the black man had the lands. Now we have the bible and he has the lands,” Trudeau has the Canadian land and they have the title of Governor-General. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mary-simon-governor-general-trudeau-payette-1.6092335 ---------------------------------------- Roland, Baldwin's 'quote' is actually only what he heard in his travels. He noted the following about 70 years ago in, "Letter from a region in my mind." Some of his observations may be valuable to those who have never questioned their beliefs. Baldwin's thoughts on the clergy and church may also have some bearing on why the Christian abuse and killing took place in Canada - directed primary towards children. Mervyn "The Africans put it another way: When the white man came to Africa, the white man had the Bible and the African had the land, but now it is the white man who is being, reluctantly and bloodily, separated from the land, and the African who is still attempting to digest or to vomit up the Bible. The struggle, therefore, that now begins in the world is extremely complex, involving the historical role of Christianity in the realm of power—that is, politics—and in the realm of morals. In the realm of power, Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty—necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels. This particular true faith, moreover, is more deeply concerned about the soul than it is about the body, to which fact the flesh (and the corpses) of countless infidels bears witness. It goes without saying, then, that whoever questions the authority of the true faith also contests the right of the nations that hold this faith to rule over him—contests, in short, their title to his land. The spreading of the Gospel, regardless of the motives or the integrity or the heroism of some of the missionaries, was an absolutely indispensable justification for the planting of the flag. Priests and nuns and schoolteachers helped to protect and sanctify the power that was so ruthlessly being used by people who were indeed seeking a city, but not one in the heavens, and one to be made, very definitely, by captive hands. The Christian church itself—again, as distinguished from some of its ministers—sanctified and rejoiced in the conquests of the flag, and encouraged, if it did not formulate, the belief that conquest, with the resulting relative well-being of the Western populations, was proof of the favor of God. God had come a long way from the desert—but then so had Allah, though in a very different direction. God, going north, and rising on the wings of power, had become white, and Allah, out of power, and on the dark side of Heaven, had become—for all practical purposes, anyway—black. Thus, in the realm of morals the role of Christianity has been, at best, ambivalent. Even leaving out of account the remarkable arrogance that assumed that the ways and morals of others were inferior to those of Christians, and that they therefore had every right, and could use any means, to change them, the collision between cultures—and the schizophrenia in the mind of Christendom—had rendered the domain of morals as chartless as the sea once was, and as treacherous as the sea still is. It is not too much to say that whoever wishes to become a truly moral human being (and let us not ask whether or not this is possible; I think we must believe that it is possible) must first divorce himself from all the prohibitions, crimes, and hypocrisies of the Christian church. If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him."
