Vine Deloria, Jr, a leading Native American scholar

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Interesting article.

http://www.goddiscussion.com/37825/christianity-as-an-american-weapon-native-america-and-religion/

It is worthy to take a look at what colonialism has done at home because American colonialism of Native America has used Christianity as a weapon to subjugate the Native American community quite purposefully.

The issue with Christianity and colonialism as laid out in "God is Red" is that the main weakness of the United States is Christianity's intolerance and inability to respect those who are different from white America

. . . Deloria notes is a major idea in Christianity–that Christianity sees itself as the superior religion, and as long as this idea of superiority persists in Christianity, religious colonialism will never end–it will simply assume different forms. The current form, according to Deloria, is the rise of Christian fundamentalism.
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I guess I need to read the whole book because they forgot to excerpt the part where Deloria says that Christianity is the friend of the Native American.

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1. I guess you didn't notice tbat Deloria identifies colonialism

as the primary evil.

I can hardly wait till you get to the part where Deloria espouses creationism.

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2. Irrelevant

To quote you.

[okasha]

3. Nope. Basic.

Does this mean I'm all grown up now?

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4. Nope. You're still in kindergarten

Christianity sees itself as the superior religion, and as long as this idea of superiority persists in Christianity, religious colonialism will never end.
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If you can't learn from Vine Deloria, Jr, then there is obviously nothing I can teach you.

[mr blur]

5. No, you have a long, long way to go. But don't worry, if you ever get there -

maybe some of your colleagues here will have made it too.

That'll be nice, won't it? An adventure for all of you.