lament the pain and loss of innocence experienced by the more than one thousand children who were sexually abused by hundreds of Catholic priests in Pennsylvania.
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I lament the cultural genocide of tens of thousands of native children who were abused sexually, physically, emotionally and mentally by over a century of Christian missionaries, priests and pastors as they attempted to "kill the Indian to save the man."
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I lament the dehumanization of millions of African men, women and children, and their descendants, who were enslaved, raped, lynched, segregated and, to this day, massively incarcerated by a white supremacists "Christian" nation that has never abolished slavery.
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I lament the genocide of tens of millions of indigenous peoples throughout Turtle Island, Central and South America by white European nations under the heresy of the Doctrine of Discovery and, in the US, a self-proclaimed "manifest destiny".
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I lament that for nearly two thousands years the Church has been prostituting itself to Empire.
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I lament Christendom.
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And I weep that all of these things are connected.
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