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Pope Francis is nothing if not consistent. He never seems to miss an opportunity to garland the Left’s latest preoccupations and fantasies with the aura of sanctity and pretend that they’re the simple Christian faith that all believers must accept. It consequently came as no surprise Thursday when the Vatican, according to the Associated Press, “responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the ‘Doctrine of Discovery,’” a long-forgotten relic of the fifteenth century that has somehow come to the attention of the woke and duly enraged them.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Actually, on this one, I’m w/ the pope. While it may well be fashionable to be woke and condemn all colonialism, on the other end, you have all the colonization and massacres of every native population justified on the pretext of ending human sacrifice. While that may have been true about the Aztecs and Incas, it’s been extrapolated to cover all native populations in the continent, which is a major stretch. And there’s no denying that the same ideology that wiped out the Aztec, Inca and other civilizations was the one that sentenced the entire Calvinist population of Holland to death under the Spanish Inquisition
As for the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’, there too, I agree w/ the pope, even if it means agreeing w/ the woke crowd. It’s like the answer to the question of whether a tree that falls in a forest makes a sound if nobody is there to hear it. As to the question of whether the Catholic Church is representative of all Christianity, the conquests of everything from Mexico to Argentina were all done in the name of the Catholic church, and the division of Latin America b/w Spain and Portugal was done by the pope: that’s what determined the borders of Brazil w/ the rest of its neighbors. The only Protestant presence in the Americas, south of the US, was in Guyana, Suriname and various West Indies islands colonized by the Brits and the Dutch, making their participation in any atrocities statistically insignificant
Cotrim says
It seems that Popes are not infallible, perfects. Of course, they are not infallible or perfect, they are only men. Human. Full of flaws, like all of us.