I reacted the same way I did when a friend pointed out that Judas had the hardest job of all the Apostles, that in fact he may have drawn the short straw. Disbelief until I thought about it.
(Because someone had to betray Jesus to play out the plot. If Jesus isn't betrayed, with all that follows, no Christianity.)
Understandably the US does not like to deal with it's checkered past. We love to talk about saving the French, Brits, and so on, don't like to acknowledge our own genocide. "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" is a true and tragic tale.
We came to the idea that slavery was bad and made it illegal some 40 years after the Brits, and only after a long, long history of promoting it. And as a tactic to help win a war. And still segregation was institutionalized for another 100 years.
We are now in a period of gratituous wars, one in Vietnam for regional hegemony and the others in Iraq and Afghanistan in a thinly-disguised ideological struggle against Islam. I realize it's the Muslim extremists our Christian extremist government is fighting, and helping make Islamic extremism the norm.
That Thanksgiving may be celebrating the wrong thing is a novel idea. I suspect not. My picture of Thanksgiving shows stereotypical Pilgrims and stereotypical Native Americans sharing a feast which was the product of cooperation between the two cultures. Nothing nefarious in that, it didn't turn bad until later.
Great, thought-provoking post. Thanks.
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Huh. An interesting thought.
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