Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Udayana on July 15, 2021, 11:06:07 AM
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1z26
"As more unmarked graves are discovered at the sites of Canada’s notorious residential schools for indigenous children, what do we know about how the children died?"
Also: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/jul/09/indigenous-children-who-died-canada-residential-schools-podcast
"Half a century ago, Barry Kennedy was taken from his family and forced into an abusive system that sought to obliterate his Indigenous heritage. Now, after the discovery of more than 1,000 bodies in unmarked graves at schools including his own, he reflects on the traditions that were erased, the friends he lost – and Canada’s new reckoning with that history. Listeners may find parts of this episode, which deals with physical and sexual abuse, distressing"
I remember having a long involved discussion on here with Jonny Canoe and Bubbles (?) on here quite a few years ago, where they were trying blame the problems of the Inuit and First Peoples on the EU. The new finds just add to the evidence that there has been nearly a century of deliberate genocide of these peoples - all under Christian, mostly Catholic, religious supervision.
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The Catholic church should be hanging its head in shame. >:(
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The Catholic church should be hanging its head in shame. >:(
I think they need to get more fire extinguishers
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I've read much over the years about the indigenous Australians whose treatment at the hands of settlers was shameful.
Mission schools throughout the world were awful places. Why white Europeans believed they had the right to impose their own values and culture on others is something I will never understand. We are in no way superior to anybody else, end of. Jesus would never have endorsed man's inhumanity to man. What was and is sometimes done in his name is blasphemy.
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The Catholic church should be hanging its head in shame. >:(
if it were only the RCCC, then, yes, single it out.
It was not.
Other Christian denominations, and some state non-religious schools, followed the state instruction as well, unfortunately.