Facebook reminded of 2019 reading memory - Jerry Mander's
"In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations"
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"In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations"
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"European doubts about the peoplehood of Indians extend back to the murderous explorations of Hernando Cortez in the mid 1500s, among the Indians of Central America and Mexico"
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"The fate of the Indians became the subject of fierce disagreements within the Catholic Church"
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"The argument became focused in the historic sixteenth-century debates between Spanish scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda and Dominican friar Bartolome de las Casas, as to whether Indians had souls and ought to be saved for the Church, or whether they should be slaughtered..."
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"or made into Slaves. Sepulveda argued the Aristotelian viewpoint that some people are born to slavery. De las Casas, who had traveled in Mexico with Cortez, and had been impressed with the Indians, was horrified at the invaders' brutality"
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"He argued that murder and slavery contradicted the gospels. Pope Pius V finally sided with de las Casas in 1566, ruling that lndians should be converted rather than killed"
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"Apparently no consideration was given to permitting Indians to live as they had before the Spanish invasion"
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"By the eighteenth century, the case for Indian inferiority was no longer predicated on the issue of souls, but on the fact that Indians had no concept of private property: .."
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"..their religions were based on nature, they lived by subsistence economics, and they believed that rocks, trees, and the earth were alive"
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"Such beliefs were held to be prima facie evidence that Indians were less evolved than Europeans and that they stood against the tide of history. That viewpoint has not fundamentally changed for the last 300 years"
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So many kind hearted heathen brethren of mine here hold the same views about their ancestors from India just like how Europeans then thought of Native Americans.
Very unfortunate that our memories and practices linger. We should've just become like them.We didn't evolve.
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Very unfortunate that our memories and practices linger. We should've just become like them.We didn't evolve.
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@SubramaniReddy3 this tweet is dedicated to you 😀
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