And this prejudice was quickly and probably unconsciously incorporated into Joseph's text of the Book of Mormon.
You're problem here is that your have not a shred of documentary evidence to support this claim. Its an assumption, and nothing more. Joseph, in fact, called and ordained several black males to the high Priesthood when he was alive.
(hint: you don't understand the body of church teaching on the subject)
Not sure whose comments you are addressing here, but as I did a cursory glance of the topic and noticed I was the only one to invoke the term "genocide", perhaps you are vaguely addressing mine. Then again, maybe not. Maybe you are having a conversation with yourself, in which case, I should leave the two of you alone.
I could care less to whom it is aimed.
Not sure who has committed the transgression you've just described, on this thread. When I used the term "genocide", I meant the actual, wanton, deliberate annihilation of another race. Sadly, time and again, condoned by God, as even a brief glance through the Old Testament will prove, and still more often, justified by followers of a God, using scriptural references.
Yes, and so?
Now, I speak German, and yet I am not quite sure to what you are referring when you invoke the term "Kulturkampf". Perhaps you could clarify. I do not need a definition, I need a context for its usage. I am a little mystified as to what you are referring to in your statement.
Yes, I'm sure you are.
Kulturkampf means of course, culture war, but the specific manner in which this is used, in English speaking countries at least, usually carries connotations of secular ideological warfare against the presence of religion in those societies. I use it also as a generic term for the overall cultural struggle that began in late sixties and continues today.
Point being...? The wars that Indians waged among themselves in no way mirrored the savage and brutish acts that they later learned from European settlers. Typically, they raided other tribes for the purpose of capturing slaves for their tribe. They did not murder and destroy in their "wars". The journals of both John Winthrop and William Bradford are most enlightening in this regard. The natives of this continent were quite taken aback by the White method warfare.
You're mind, has been raped. This is ahistorical, PC mythology, and your have swallowed it whole. Amerindians fought genocidal wars for many centuries among themselves, which included the obliteration of entire tribes well before Columbus ever set foot here. Many entire Indian cultures, such as the Apache, to name but one, were based to a great degree on war, conquest, the glory of battle, and a cult of bravey or, what me might call machismo.
Scalping, regardless of the PC myths we were all taught in public school, was a known practices among various tribes (whites picked it up from them, and then spread it to other tribes, in a kind of refertilization). Ritual cannibalism was well represented among Amerindians, as was human sacrifice, mastery of the most horrific torture of thir enemies, and slavery.
Yes lurker, for the serious minded, the myth of the peaceful, gentle ecosavage is long dead, never existed, and we bid it good riddance. Whatever Europeans brought to America that was less then noble, the Amerindians had already been well acquainted with for thousands of years. European treatment of the Indian was very bad, in many cases. Indian treatment of whites and other Indians, was, in many cases, bery bad. There was good and bad on both sides. Cultural clashes are like that, not so simple as interested ideologues would like to have it.
The one thing European treatment of the Indian was not was unique or especially depraved.
Get over this? My, it is so tiresome that nearly ninety percent of Natives along the Eastern seaboard were wiped out as a result of Pilgrim settlers, with their smallpox, and their syphilis, and their their pitting tribe against tribe.
Please, this is getting tedious. Again, the Indians had been fighting and conquering and killing each other for thousands of years with gusto, and didn't need Whites to teach them anything about it. The smallpox epidemic was an accident of biology, not something carried out by whites against them. It could very well have gone the other way, but it didn't.
That, of course, in no way takes into account the horrific annihilation of the Indian tribes in the south or west of this continent, although sadly, the stories are much the same. Frankly, I don't want to get over it, because I fear that it will turn me into something inhuman.
Oh
please spare me...
"The Israelites killed millions too! So did the Romans! And what about Ghengis Khan? So it's okay!"
Yup. I've got a real live LIBERAL here. Classic mind set, classic argument structure. No, i
ts not OK. There, do your feel better now? All I'm saying is that war and conquest have been the norm throughout all of human existence and the north and south Amerindians were as much a part of this as any other people. The European attitude toward them was
nothing unusual for the times.Thanks, I think I'll just plug along reading primary sources where possible and forming my own conclusions, if the alternative is to "just get over" something.
Just be very careful regarding which "primary sources:" you use.
Yes, but they would not become white and delightsome, contrary to Mormon thought. Instead, we humans will all look like Halle Berry one day. Not a bad prospect for our species.
It would be an even better prospect for you to stop wasting your life and mind of ideological comic book history written by people whose purpose is not to educate but to indoctrinate.
Or would you rather be a duck?