Christianity left an indelible print on the lives of Native Americans. Since the first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, the visitors sought to "civilize" Indians by telling them of God and Jesus. Later, in the nineteenth century, the U.S. government decided to assimilate the Native peoples by neatly dividing them into reservations & assigning the reservations to various Christian missionaries,a behavior hardly understandable to the Indian peoples. Since none of their perhaps six hundred tribal traditions emphasized conversion and proselytization, it was unclear to them why the Christians wanted everyone to worship the same way they did. To many, this time was a Holocaust robbing them their tribal tongues & traditions and replacing them with empty promises of a God of love who punished with a sharp whip.
Humm the more things change the more they remain the same.
Oil.But of course. Chritianity. Even moreso but on a grander scale.
2006-10-15 11:16:24 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Kennyp...humm if the question 'makes little sense', the 'little sense is because you are not at a high enough level to answer it.
2006-10-15 13:29:04 · update #1
Of course they want to poison your country with Christianity. Christians are charged to spread their word like a plague, infecting everyone's mind with the idea that God created you just as you are but refuses to love you until you conform to man's idea of what God finds acceptable. Christians want to spread a message of love that contains subliminal messages of separation and hate. The USA is already full of this theological poison, and you can see what it has done to us, and the rest of the world.
2006-10-15 11:33:38 · answer #1 · answered by Bastet's kitten 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We as a nation undoubtedly treated the Native Americans shabbily. Also, some of the early Catholic missionaries promulgated their beliefs in an altogether too aggressive manner.
As to your question as to whether Christians have a secret desire to convert Muslims, I believe it is no secret. When you have a wonderful faith as I believe I do as a Christian, you want to convert others.
Conversion, however, must be an individual matter and an entirely voluntary action.
2006-10-15 11:26:01 · answer #2 · answered by Serendipity 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
(I presume naive) Questions like this imply that you don't know history. Christianity have been in the Middle East long before Islam was even founded. I don't know if they (Elite American Christians) have a desire to invoke and even so I don't think they will succeed. These Christians are Arab speaking (depending on the country), they are Maronite's, Orthodox, Catholics, etc. and won't be tempted to join right-wing, new born Protestants (the so-called Elite American Christians).
2006-10-15 11:39:08 · answer #3 · answered by Yuri 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This right wing conspiracy started with Jesus and hasn't stopped yet.. but nothing secret about it, in plain sight in the Bible
Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
2006-10-15 11:26:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope not me, i could die for him, in spite of each little thing he did it for me. It is quite not long in the past we are persecuted top here interior the forged ol' u . s . a .. The disrespect of Christians is extremely obvious top here on YA! it quite is going to ensue quickly adequate. i'm not finding forward to it, yet i'm going to stand up for God no count how undesirable it could get. Its not common being a believer on the instant. With all of the classes in technology supposedly obvious that there isn't any God. Being categorised ignorant and delusional, because of the fact I carry on the brink of a concept that's not tangible. Even for human beings that have intelligence that surpasses the worry-unfastened. dwelling a Christian existence is likewise not common in recent times with all of the enticements available, and maximum of human beings are straddling the fence between God and the international. that's not common to stick the classes of Jesus Christ, yet I even have made a option to stay with Christ and as not common because it quite is, i won't enable bypass of that.
2016-11-23 13:26:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, when it would be so much more effective to send missionaries over and do it peacefully.
The war in Iraq is not a religious war. It is motivated by greed for oil and geopolitical advantage. It is fueled by hate, ignorance, and pride.
2006-10-15 11:19:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was always an objective of the Christians to spread the Word everywhere, right or left.
2006-10-15 11:20:31 · answer #7 · answered by phaig93 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The vast Right Wing Conspiracy (of which I am a member) is always looking for oil fields to plunder, widows to rape, and babies to devour.
2006-10-15 11:18:43 · answer #8 · answered by Dysthymia 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The answer is NO. Your question makes little sense.
2006-10-15 11:19:23 · answer #9 · answered by Kennyp 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Of COURSE they do!
2006-10-15 11:30:03 · answer #10 · answered by Ana 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋