Christian Identity thieves

                                              The Silent Christian Crime

In a recent study I saw it stated that 80% of the world population is some denomination of Christian. The Vatican City in Rome its own micro country is a testament to the far reaching ever present church. In America and most civilized countries freedom of religion is one of the most important corner stone’s of a progressive society.

So it makes me profoundly sad that something horrible is happening to are world and no one is talking about it. In fact when you first read what it is that I find so horrible you may need to take a second to understand why I am saying this.

Christian Missionaries.

Of all the varieties of religion Christianity is possibly the most aggressive in their need to convert and spread. Almost every American has had there door knocked on by Jehovah Witnesses and the Church of Later Day Saint trying to spread there less popular version of the “Good word”, and were is the harm in that you might think?

The answer is on the boarders the fringes of well developed countries. They go to these indigenous people and offer them things they have never seen before and most alluringly the ease of labor. Running water, heated homes, telephone, medicine all these modern luxuries, But its never free it’s usually not until it’s to late that they realize what they have lost for these things.

There cultural identity is being stolen for fast food and a welfare dependency. Who they are is being fundamentally changed. Not by the slow integration of free thought that creates a natural amalgam of who you are and were you came from, But in a brutally quick why that leaves them unprepared to face the new world they have been injected into.

Perhaps you are having trouble seeing the implications. After all what could be so bad about this? So let me explain to you what this has done to me personally.

My great grand mother was an Americanized Native American and met her husband a immigrant who changed his last name to sound more English. They had children and raised them in the only way available. When my mother was born they named her a word from my great grandmother’s language meaning flower.

There was only one problem her name was wrong. By losing her Cultural heritage at a young age and having to learn English so she could communicate with the under educated English she lived with my great grand mother accepted there word for her people she believed her people were call black foot a (sub tribe of Cherokee) because they were the most populate tribe in the area at that time. So what was wrong with my mother’s name? It’s not Cherokee its Lakota and until I was looking up Native American names I didn’t know the difference either. I hadn’t felt up to tackling the trouble of a second almost extinct language.  And here I had spent all this time learning as much as I could about black foot culture and history only to learn it’s not a part of who I am.

As a homosexual I have felt apart of a largely Christianized America and not until I fond the mystery of my mothers name did I learn of the Lakota belief in “Two spirits” a term that covers most of the L.G.B.T community today. Were who I was born as is not vilified with more anger and more financial backing then people use to go after killers, but instead is seen as a blessing marking some one as being able to see more of the world to be wiser then most because they stand between the masculine and famine being a person of two spirits. How much pain and struggle could I have done with out if I hadn’t lost this part of were I came from?

The oral histories folklore spiritual beliefs and traditional practices are the first victims to go when a missionary converts people. Hundreds of tribes and thousands of years of lore lost for ever as heresy. Then the physical objects ancestor shields and totems passed down for years carrying the story of there family’s and the names of the ancestors are burned to show that they are faithful to god and not attached to heathen objects of “Magic”.

The quest to become one people should not coast us the knowledge of were we came from. The last time knowledge was controlled it was called the DARK AGES. So I ask you readers don’t send money to these history killers. If god wants them he can call them him self. Let a child pick up his fathers spear to hunt and stop for a brief moment to ask his ancestors to bless him while he attempts to feed his family. Instead of taking away his knowledge of how to take care of himself and replace it with third world poverty and no option other then to put his hand out.