Hot Take From TheAmericanConservative.com : Forced Family Separations and Abuses By Christians Are Justified As Long As it leads to Baptisms and Converts.

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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-meaning-of-the-native-graves/ 

To put the article in Context, There is a scandal in Canada that's been ongoing for a number of years where it's being uncovered how the Catholic Church and Canadian Government organized 'residential schools', to where they would forcibly remove young children from the families of Canada's Native populations and place them in these schools to be converted to Christianity and Western culture, with the aim of destroying the native people's population and culture. These Residential schools were run by the Catholic church, but were severely underfunded and many native children suffered in the schools due to a lack of food, poor medical care, and abuses from the staff, including both physical and sexual abuses. A lot of Children died, many were never re-united with their families, and they are now finding a lot of unmarked child graves on the properties of these schools. There is a lot more to this story, but this is a quick summary. 

 

The Esteemed Editor at the American Conservative decided it was a good idea to write an article 'DEFENDING' these residential schools and that action's taken by the Canadian gov and catholic Church were morally justified because it led to the conversion (forced as it may be) of many native children to Christianity, and helped stomp out their culture's pagan religion. He states the abuses from the schools were unfortunate, but that Christian's are called to minister to the entire world and to convert people all over, and so it is religiously justified and indeed a Christian act itself to do whatever is necessary to convert people to Christ, even if it includes abuse and the use of force to do so. He uses a few Bible verses to back his point up. 

Here's a quote from the article summing it up:

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Whatever good was present at the Ossossané ossuary—where those who had not yet encountered the fullness of Truth honored their dead as best they knew how—is increased a thousandfold in the cemeteries of the residential schools, where baptized Christians were given Christian burials. Whatever natural good was present in the piety and community of the pagan past is an infinitesimal fraction of the grace rendered unto those pagans’ descendants who have been received into the Church of Christ. Whatever sacrifices were exacted in pursuit of that grace—the suffocation of a noble pagan culture; an increase in disease and bodily death due to government negligence; even the sundering of natural families—is worth it.

 

You'd think this was written as a satire piece by an angry athiest or far left progressive who was trying to make Christians/conservatives look as degusting and unprincipled as possible, but nope this is the real deal written by a hard core Conservative "Christian" in a Bi-monthly Conservative magazine that's been around since 2002.

 

The Websites leader was once quoted as saying they want The American Conservative to become the "Atlantic of the right wing"...good luck with that. 

 

Edited July 14, 2021 by CoffeeTiger

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Forced conversions.  Wow, there is so much I could say, but what else would I expect from the Western Church, both Roman and Protestant, than to continue their fear mongering rather than loving. 

I am so thankful I am Orthodox.

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Reminds me of the Spanish conquistadors - convert and accept Christ, or die by the sword.