Protestant Church Apologizes for Massacring Native Americans

As a Protestant they can count me out of the collective guiltfest. They have no more right to apologize for me than they do to assume I was somehow an active and willing participant in whatever the hell they are apologizing for.

What is the point? Who cares and why does it matter? What is the desired objective?

Damn. Damn. Damn.

I apologize to the animal kingdom for liking my steak so rare it will moo.

Whoever wrote that headline had hierarchy brainlock.

It’s one fairly obscure denomination in New York City, succumbing to PC. I’ve heard of Dutch Reformed, had ancestors from Pennsylvania who belonged to that church in the early 1700’s. But, I’ve never heard of the Collegiate church, and I’ve been “Protestant” all my life.

Far more of my ancestry were Moravian, Protestant as well. Persecuted themselves, in German-speaking lands, forced into hiding on the estate of a sympathetic Count, von Zinnzindorf. In NC and GA, they built numerous missions to the Cherokee, fought their removal, and when that was lost, accompanied them, tried to aid them on the Trail Of Tears, and had an advance party set up a new misson in Oklahoma, to minister to them upon arrival.

And, I’ve got some amount of native ancestry as well, myself. It’s dehumanizing and dishonest to say anything other than that they gave as good as they got. Centuries ago, people from another land invaded and took over, just as they did themselves, centuries before that. It’s the way of the world. Get over it already. This nation has bent over backwards trying to make amends and accomodate. Be thankful. Shut up already, imho, of course.

This is “apology” is just sheer, namby-pamby, feel good capitulation to the groupthink that will eventually destroy our country.

Whoever wrote that headline had hierarchy brainlock.

It’s one fairly obscure denomination in New York City, succumbing to PC. I’ve heard of Dutch Reformed, had ancestors from Pennsylvania who belonged to that church in the early 1700’s. But, I’ve never heard of the Collegiate church, and I’ve been “Protestant” all my life.

Far more of my ancestry were Moravian, Protestant as well. Persecuted themselves, in German-speaking lands, forced into hiding on the estate of a sympathetic Count, von Zinnzindorf. In NC and GA, they built numerous missions to the Cherokee, fought their removal, and when that was lost, accompanied them, tried to aid them on the Trail Of Tears, and had an advance party set up a new misson in Oklahoma, to minister to them upon arrival.

And, I’ve got some amount of native ancestry as well, myself. It’s dehumanizing and dishonest to say anything other than that they gave as good as they got. Centuries ago, people from another land invaded and took over, just as they did themselves, centuries before that. It’s the way of the world. Get over it already. This nation has bent over backwards trying to make amends and accomodate. Be thankful. Shut up already, imho, of course.

This is “apology” is just sheer, namby-pamby, feel good capitulation to the groupthink that will eventually destroy our country.

I suspicion you are right -

I made no reference to ethnicity in my response.

I have both American Indian and European ancestry. One of my European ancestors was burned at the stake about six hundred years ago for practicing medicine. No race has a monopoly on brutality.