Catastrophe
"The
conquest of the New World set off two vast demographic
catastrophes, unparalled in history: the
virtual destruction of the indigenous population of the
Western hemisphere, and the devastation of Africa as
the slave trade rapidly expanded to serve the needs
of the
conquerors, and the continent itself was subjugated."
– Noam Chomsky (Year 501, p5)
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Loving enemies, Christian-style. |
Reformation,
Counter-Reformation, murder upon murder, war upon
war. Gangster popes, intolerant reformers, roasted Jews,
tortured heretics and burned witches – what a jolly
time was had by all. |
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Land clearance,
in the name of Jesus.
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Christian
knights brought savagery and racism to a whole new
world. Miniscule
in number, the Spanish adventurers, equipped with superior
firepower and infected with deadly European diseases,
descended on an unsuspecting native world. Every genocidal
step was sanctioned and blessed by Holy Mother Church.
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Locked and loaded. |
Buccaneers,
Bigots, Slavers and Traders
Gentle
Jesus arrived in England's North American colonies with
a well-armed military escort. Clinging
to the edge of a vast continent a motley crew of venture
capitalists,
criminals and self-righteous fanatics established a precarious
existence in the new world. |
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Stiffed-collared
Brits couldn't hold back those avaricious Yankees. Hallelujah! |
A
stolen land, worked by an enslaved labour force, cultivating
drug
crops, could not fail to enrich the colonial elite.
Breaking
free politically from Old World monarchies the New Republic
beckoned Europe's huddled masses, yearning for liberty – and a quick
buck.
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De Camptown ladies
sing this song, Doo-da, Doo-da De |
Christianity
– in fact all three monotheistic religions – have a history
steeped in condoning, justifying and practicing slavery.
The British primed the pump of the Industrial Revolution with
the slave trade. The American Republic built the foundations
of its economy on the institution of slavery. Jesus was with
them all the way. |
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Family
values – drudgery
and faith. |
God-fearing folk, driven by a dream of vast personal wealth,
with an unrestrained willingness to eradicate anything and
anyone standing in the
way, required an entrepreneurial recasting of the Palestinian
pageant.
Jesus
had to become All-American. The slicksters saw their opportunity,
fabricating a convenience Christianity,
packaged in multifarious varieties.
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Are you rapture ready? |
In
choreographed extravaganzas rationality and judgement fall
victim to mass hysteria. Whipping up the
Jesus frenzy are
a bunch of crooks and hucksters, womanising egotists and
dangerous megalomaniacs. |
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21st century
Jesus drives an SUV. Warming the Earth up a little?
Man, it's ALL gonna burn! |
Grown
into a world power, without precedent either for its wealth
or military prowess, the US of A, strives to remake
the world in its own likeness. The Bush Dynasty, encouraged
by the Christian Right – Israel alliance, is on a Mission.
God help us.
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