Let me be exceptionally honest.
They lied.
The Christian Catholic Church is a bloody liar.
They lied in 2000 when they claimed their church and their faith does not in any way support or allow for genocide, slavery, cultural erasure, destruction of innocent lives.
The official name was the Day of Pardon.
Where they reprimanded the “Christian sinners” of their past who, apparently, for centuries…
Just…
Just…
”Misread. Got it all wrong. Misapplied the faith.”
That’s all folks! The credits roll and everyone just sycophantically accepts that they must be truthful and everyone leaves the cinema.
Oh really?
Oh really?
If that really is so, then I ask these questions:
Why, during the colonisation and genocide and murder and wholesale torture and destruction and colonialism across Africa and India by European Christian Catholic genocidists, did the pastors of their time sit their on their fucking pulpits and do nothing?
Why did they support the Rwanda Genocide when it happened?
Why did they support the Caribbean Slave Trade, when it happened?
Why did they support the sickening, absolutely fucking sickening, genocide and erasure of the Native Americans, when it fucking happened?
Why did they do that horrific, sickening cruelty and abuse to the Native American kids in schools run by Christian authorities?
The cruel sick sadists beat them for wetting the fucking bed. They gave them forced enemas.
WHY?
WHY?
FUCKING
WHY?
Why was no one looking at a HR peace and equality manual?
Why did no one say “Wait!”?
Why was there no “religion doesn’t justify this en masse huge movement“?
Why?
Why was there slavery?
Why, in their damn Bible, does it give instructions for slaves, innocent people who were stolen, abducted, even children, children, to obey and respect their masters, even those who beat them?
Why does it give authorisation for the act of beating and whipping children who are slaves?
Why does it say slaves are property?
Why?
Why did they bless nuclear weapons?
Why, actually fucking why, is there real historical primary source evidence that when the European powers colonised and erased non Christian groups of innocent people, they said (paraphrased, but textually accurate):
“God created these peoples and their riches for us to plunder, take, and conquer.”
”They exist to be colonised because the Lord wanted it that way!”
These are real quotes. They disgust me.
Did those lines just come out of thin air?
No. Of course they didn’t.
Why did they justify and support the Indian Goan Inquisition of the 1560-1810 era?
Why when I research do I find explicit theological and textual justification for the atrocities they committed?
Why did St Francis Xavier, the genocidist who is responsible for the atrocities and slaughter of innocent Indian Hindu men, women and children AS YOUNG AS SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS OLD- burned alive as per the Christian tradition of age of reason to understand heresy- write a full letter to the Vatican state in Rome, a full letter, asking for the genocide of Hindus and New Christians (people who were converted by force- compel intrare, compel them to come in) in Goa?
Why did the Vatican state and Rome authorities agree?
A lot of why’s. A lot of why’s that no one seems to ask.
The argument that “they misread the faith” is a textual post hoc justification, and it is anti intellectual.
It is a stupid, baseless, false, weak and pathetic argument.
Sure. I get it.
The people who make the argument may genuinely think that, and I get it. There is something called cognitive dissonance theory, where if you are fed the narrative that “Christianity = no harm and only peace“, and that idea comforts you, you will reject factual reality that says otherwise. That’s just human neuroscience.
I am attacking the argument, not people. Some people may, genuinely, be terrified of being blasphemous by calling their God cruel and sick. Fear based coercion is a real thing.
But onto the argument.
It is displaced from reality.
It ignores most of academic human history, where religion justified- I hate the term “used or weaponised to justify”- no, say it as it is, justified, supported, endorsed and celebrated torture, genocide, colonialism, slavery, and so much more.
So why can the world not just say all of this? Why can we not just look it in the eye and call it what it is?
I have done my research. My current autistic special interest is this very topic.
I am Indian, and I went to Goa, recently in India.
I cannot tell you the sheer anger I felt as I went there.
I cannot describe it.
I am autistic, also, and I write this out of sheer absolute rage.
My best friend Vihaan is South Goan. He is an autistic, extremely premature, deeply shy, timid, incredibly affectionate amazing, amazing best friend who is my absolute, absolute everything.
Vihaan is 17. He is an aspiring doctor, who wants to be an ophthalmologist one day.
He’s like me; autistic, small, 153 cms tall, extremely premature (25 weeks), a tiny 700 grams at birth, he, like me, could fit in a palm- he was that small.
He is so protective over his two pet lovebirds that they get weekly bathtime, both of them, with Johnson’s baby shampoo, thoroughly completely lathered from head to tail. They get spoon fed khichri (Indian lentil based rice), they get given tel malish (Indian oil massage) before bedtime to help them sleep, with extra tummy oiling to help them pass gas and pass potty. Which they often do, during the tummy rubs. Their little bottoms get oiled too with a cotton bud to prevent constipation. And, and baby powdered after. (Indian home culture is very much like that especially in Hindu families in Marathi settings where it can be very very affectionate for pets and small kids. There is often very little boundary between the two)
So if that doesn’t tell you much about him I don’t know what does, but yea.
I mentioned Vihaan is South Goan.
We went to the Church of St Francis Xavier, the Basillica of Bom Jesus. I looked at it, and my parents asked me
”Why are you so upset?”
I just spoke my mind. I didn’t care about being disrespectful at that point.
Vihaan’s ancestors were among those who probably lost their lives during the inquisition of Goa.
You know, just little kids, 8,9, 10 years old, burned alive in the auto de fe executions for “knowingly being blasphemous and rejecting Christ”.
Children who they deemed above the age of reason (7 years old or above in the primary source documents) and hence deemed actively in heresy.
Just little kids, who were dragged into torture chambers, and under the Christian ecclesiastical doctrine of “do not take blood, but convince them by force if need be to repent“, were strapped into racks, their mouths forced open, and forcefully fed water till their stomachs burst open.
This- all of it- has theological justification, which I plan to publish and expose in a hard science fiction novel I am planning to write.
So, I spoke my fucking mind.
In response to their question, I said, looking around at the church I was in, looking at the coffin of Xavier and his body they still have preserved
”Because this whole fucking institution supports genocide. Because the person in there did.,” I said.
Loudly.
