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First, am aware that your source is the Catholic priest Las Casas - I will assume he existed.
Bartolome de Las Casas was born in Seville, Spain, in 1474. In 1502 he went to Cuba, and for his military services there was given an Encomienda, an estate that included the services of the Indians living on it. In about 1513 he was ordained priest (probably the first ordination in the Americas), and in 1514 he renounced all claim on his Indian serfs. During the following seven years he made several voyages to Spain to find support for a series of new towns in which Spaniard and Indian would live together in peace and equality. In 1523 he became a Dominican friar and disappeared for a time from public controversy. In 1540 he returned to Spain and was a force behind the passage in 1542 of laws prohibiting Indian slavery and safeguarding the rights of the Indians. He was made Bishop of Chiapas in Guatemala, and returned to the Americas in 1544 to implement the new laws, but he met considerable resistance, and in 1547 he returned to Spain, where he devoted the rest of his life to speaking and writing on behalf of the Indians. He is chiefly remembered for his Brief Report on the Destruction of the Indians (or Tears of the Indians), a fervid and perhaps exaggerated account of the atrocities of the Spanish conquerors against the Indians. The book was widely read and widely translated, and the English version was used to stir up English feeling against the Spanish as a cruel race whom England ought to beware of, and whose colonies in the Americas would be better off in English hands. Las Casas is widely admired as an early pioneer of social justice, and widely denounced as an irresponsible pamphleteer and spreader of slanders. He died in Madrid on 17 July (or perhaps 31 July) 1566, and is remembered as a national hero in Cuba and Nicaragua. An extract from Tears of the Indians follows.
Now Christ wanted his gospel to be preached with enticements, gentleness, and all meekness, and pagans to be led to the truth not by armed forces but by holy examples, Christian conduct, and the word of God, so that no opportunity would be offered for blaspheming the sacred name or hating the true religion because of the conduct of the preachers. For this is nothing else than making the coming and passion of Christ useless, as long as the truth of the gospel is hated before it is either understood or heard, or as long as innumerable human beings are slaughtered in a war waged on the pretext of preaching the gospel and spreading religion.
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That is the only source there is, afaik, and it was one letter and I am surprised it existed or does it still exist today?
Bartolome de Las Casas was the most persistent defender of the Indians during the early years of the Spanish conquest of America. Starting out as a conquistador with his own encomienda, Las Casas later became a Dominican friar who passionately spoke out against the brutal treatment of the Indians.
In several books and in speeches before the Council of the Indies, Las Casas described in graphic detail how the Spanish moved into an unconquered territory and terrorized Indian people
But the latest Eichmann revelations suggest that Pope Pius XII's moral stature – and qualification for sainthood – should be judged on its conduct in the aftermath of Nazism's defeat. Once the evil of the Holocaust was revealed for all to see, the Holy See should have been at the forefront of the campaign to bring the war criminals to trial.
In fact history's most savage mass murderers – Adolf Eichmann, Dr Josef Mengele, better known as Auschwitz's 'Angel of Death', Franz Stangl, commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp – escaped justice down the 'ratline' that ran straight through the Vatican state in Rome.
Senior members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy – marinaded in virulent Judeophobia and obsessed by Bolshevism – organised the escape of thousands of the most debauched, cruel monsters to a peaceful, prosperous retirement in Catholic South America. blogs.telegraph.co.uk...
windword
reply to post by Harvin
Look. Nazi collusion is only one of the more recent scandals that the Vatican has had to deal with.
My point is, the Vatican has been up to its proverbial neck nefarious dealing with governments and corruption since its inception. You can't get peaches from a lemon tree.
edit on 10-4-2014 by windword because: (no reason given)
adjensen
I think that we handled the issue last night, with all issues fairly addressed.
If you're not happy, sorry, but I think that I handled the scandal of Indian Residential Schools, which is really all that matters, fairly well in my introduction. Yes, NRE brought the focus back to said schools, but it wasn't me that put the focus on Kevin Annett, his ridiculous show trials and the ITCCS.
In the future, let's try and focus on the real victims, not narcissists like Kevin Annett.
This is just more of Kevin Annett's nonsense and needs to go to the Hoax Bin, ASAP.
OP, you've been duped -- there is nothing behind this but a crackpot who is disdained even by the people he claims to be supporting. - See more at: www.abovetopsecret.com...
My objective WAS to discuss the victims, and the information in the article.
I had never heard of Kevin Annett before reading this. Why would I focus on him, if I had never heard of him?
Why do I have to keep pointing out that the title of this thread is "Historic Breaking News: Canada, Vatican & Crown GUILTY of Genocide"? It is not "Tragedy at Indian Residential Schools".
windword
reply to post by adjensen
I think the point of thread is that Canada,The Vatican & The Crown ARE guilty of genocide. I also think we mostly all agree with Annett's conclusions, and wish that more was being done to bring the perpetrators to justice, or at least to the court of public shame.
In the meantime, it seems that you're more interested in distracting us from the atrocities by attacking and mocking the messenger.
In the meantime, it seems that you're more interested in distracting us from the atrocities by attacking and mocking the messenger.
And I already explained that I used that title because it was the title of the article from my source. I was told we are supposed to use the same title in our threads.
They have officially admitted it.
Canada, the British Crown and the Vatican stand guilty as charged.
But previously “segregated” statistics of the deaths of residential school children made public last Friday by different provinces indicate that “tens of thousands” of these children died in the facilities
shocking new evidence showing that a Vatican and Church of England child sacrifice cult known as the Ninth Circle operated at the same schools for over a century, including at the Mohawk residential school in Brantford, Ontario. (www.itccs.org, March 29, 2014)
because they've said that Annett does not represent them and they're not backing these "show trials"
nowhere in this thread will you find me dismissing