{"id":2346,"date":"2012-10-29T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/10\/a-note-to-catholics-2.html"},"modified":"2012-10-29T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:33:00","slug":"a-note-to-catholics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2012\/10\/a-note-to-catholics-2.html","title":{"rendered":"A Note to Catholics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Trying to tie the horrors of Western Civilization to those rascally Protestants flies about as far as a 500 pound iron weight. \u00a0As many times as I\u2019ve read Catholics trying to insist the days of Catholic exploration were verily filled with joy and harmony and the chanting of John Lennon songs, truth is the entire period was complex, with all sides having their hands in the cookie jars of\u00a0indefensible\u00a0atrocities. \u00a0And yes, that includes the American Indians. \u00a0In our modern culture, emphasizing the complete\u00a0openness\u00a0and tolerance of all immigrants who yearn for a better life, I find it hard to believe we still have some who dismiss the endless numbers of innocent men, women, and children from Europe who died horribly at the hands of native Indians who knew full well what they were doing. <\/p>\n

Fact is, all sides have their skeletons to hang in the closet. \u00a0Catholics who attempt to rewrite the narrative to suggest that it was only when Protestants, with their\u00a0heretical\u00a0ways and bad breath, came on the scene that things fell apart, are\u00a0spitting\u00a0into the wind. \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because\u00a0it isn\u2019t just Protestants and scholars who have a \u00a0modicum of honesty about their research who know it\u2019s B.S. \u00a0It\u2019s also many within the vary Native American tribes that are equally skeptical, because they see one white European as the same as another, and don\u2019t dismiss the atrocities laid at the foot of the Catholic Church<\/a> any more than they dismiss those committed by any others from Europe. \u00a0FWIW, they also remember atrocities committed by other Indian tribes, but you\u2019d be hard pressed to find a PC Multi-Culturally\u00a0sensitive Euro-American who could ever admit to such nuanced\u00a0details\u00a0from that period in history.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trying to tie the horrors of Western Civilization to those rascally Protestants flies about as far as a 500 pound iron weight. \u00a0As many times as I\u2019ve read Catholics trying to insist the days of Catholic exploration were verily filled with joy and harmony and the chanting of John Lennon songs, truth is the entire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nA Note to Catholics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Trying to tie the horrors of Western Civilization to those rascally Protestants flies about as far as a 500 pound iron weight.  As many times as I've\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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