Lecturer urges Indians to set aside culture biasFor many American Indians, the word "Christianity" is loaded with what Richard Twiss calls "colonial baggage."
Twiss, a member of the Rosebud Lakota/Sioux tribe and 32-year follower of Christ, said some link it to such sore spots as "manifest destiny" and the notion of "chosenness."Drumming okay for Indians?
"Native Christians were taught by early missionaries that native drumming was pagan," said Twiss, president and co-founder of Wiconi International, a Christian ministry that works with American Indian communities.
"Jesus never addresses architectural forms or musical forms or languages as being good or bad. It's about allegiance--to whom do you serve."Jesus was an Indian?
He said his notion of Christ is that of an "aboriginal," with dark hair and skin.
"Christianity has its roots in the history of a tribal people," he said.Comment: Christian Americans still think they're God's gift to the world. They've made this evident in their dealings with everyone from Indians to Iraqis.
Is that a biased viewpoint? No. It's not biased if it's true.
For more on the subject, see
America's Exceptional Values.
8 comments:
Writerfella here --
EuroMan's Christian religion is as much an alien on the shores of the NovaMundian continents as is EuroMan himself. A philosophy that allows its adherents to pursue genocide in its name and THEN forgives those adherents post-genocide simply is insanity made flesh...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Writerfella here --
POSTSCRIPTUM --
Not to mention that Christianity arose at the dawn of the ascension of the astrological sign Pisces (hence the symbol of The Fish) and that it now is the dawn of the ascension of the sign Aquarius. Karl Jung observed that a new world philosophy has been born at each of the past such Zodiacal ascensions and so a new philosophy is being created that will replace Christianity in the very near future. That would mean the current Christian fascination with "The Rapture" and the end of the world, may be in reality a precognitive sensing that THEIR world is coming to an end...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Right, and since I'm an Aquarius, this is my age.
Writerfella here --
Being a Gemini (and as explained earlier as two-spirited, therefore), writerfella must ask: how old is your age in Aquarius? MUST be on the cusp of middle age, without that much spring being left in the chicken...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
Can't you tell my age from my cultural references? Remember F Troop...Wyatt Wingfoot...and The Go-Go Gophers?
I'm almost half a century old, alas. I think I passed the cusp of middle age about a decade ago.
Writerfella here --
Maybe the cusp, or even the bicuspid, you know, long in the tooth...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
You can't stereotype a whole group of people like that. No group of people should have to be subject to stereotypes, whether it be judging their heritage or their religion.
I didn't say all Christian Americans think they're God's gift to the world. The statement is a generalization and I claim it's generally true. Can you prove me wrong?
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