Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Jesus Loves The Racist Fucking Murderers

A partial list of atrocities. (More.)

Fort Caroline Massacre (1565): The first real contact between Europeans in what would become America took place in Florida, near modern Jacksonville, where hundreds of French Huguenots, the real first "Pilgrims," were massacred by the Spanish who founded St. Augustine for this purpose. The Spanish Admiral who led this search and destroy mission hung some of the survivors with a sign above them reading, "I do this not as to Frenchmen but as to Lutherans," by which he meant "Protestants" or actually "heretics."

The Mystic Massacre: During the Pequot War of 1637, hundreds of women, children and mostly old men were killed or burned to death in a Puritan attack on a Pequot Indian village. Governor William Bradford would later write that "horrible was the stincke and [scent] thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them...."

The Boston Martyrs: On October 27, 1659, two Quakers, Marmaduke Stephenson and William Robinson, were executed in Boston, the Puritans' "shining city upon a hill," under a 1658 law banning the Society of Friends as a "cursed sect." In June 1660, Mary Dyer was executed and a fourth "Friend" was hung in 1661.


"Church and Slave State": Abolitionism had its roots in Christianity. But so did American slavery, which cited biblical justifications for the "peculiar institution." In the 19th century, this divide led to splits within three Protestant denominations that divided North and South: the Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians. (In 1995, the Southern Baptist Convention apologized for its racist past and support of slavery, 140 years after the split.)

Of course, this is a mere handful of the landmarks in this so-called "Christian Nation." We haven't even gotten to the Mormons and the violence that confronted them in the early 19th century.


Hey, don't act as if the fucking Mormies weren't violent assholes too.

4 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Hey, don't act as if the fucking Mormies weren't violent assholes too.

You stole my comment! Have you been taking lessons from fish?
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M. Bouffant said...

Intellectual Property Editor Excuses:

We couldn't help ourself.

It wasn't nailed down; we took it.

Can we put this behind us & move on?

Smut Clyde said...

None of this stuff about founding a nation on slavery, genocide and ethnic cleansing can possibly be true, for I regularly hear about America recently losing its innocence (nearly 5 million Ghits!), implying that it was previously innocent.

M. Bouffant said...

"Who, Us?" Editor Claims:

Butter wouldn't melt in the national mouth.