From: mcclary@netcom.com (Michael McClary)
Subject: Re: Who's next?  Mormons and Jews?
Organization: Committee to commemorate the WACO Ghetto Uprising
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In article <1r0mtoINNa59@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM> dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM writes:
>Gordon Storga writes:
>
>>Gentleman, are we also forgetting the near genocide of the Native American
>>for the barbaric act of being "heathen" (i.e. a non-Christian) by a
>>predominantly Christian government.  That's a little over 200 years as I
>>recall.  I'd say that for the most part it was religious persecution
>>(their religion dictated their lifestyle).
>
>This is a stretch.  In fact, a great many of the persecuted Indians were
>Christian, a great many.  It would be simpler to state the obvious, that
>white people wanted land the Indians dominated or threatened.  I really
>don't think the government cared a hill of beans about the Indians' religion.

My Native American Girlfriend asks: "If the government really doesn't
'care a hill of beans' about our religion, how come they're still
busting us for it in Oregon, Washington, and a few other places?
You'd be a Christian, too, if the U.S. Army marched you into church
at gunpoint."
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