Pope Francis Silly in the US: #2 : Brutal Colonialist Made a Saint

[Yorktown]

First time ever anyone is made a 'saint' by a Pope on US soil: Junipero Serra.

The -rather transparent- reason why: demographics. Pandering to the RCC hispanics.

But was Junipero Serra really such a good guy?

Ran forced labor camps:

One way to answer the question of whether Junipero Serra was really good for the Native Americans he purported to serve was how natives were treated on the missions themselves. ..The contemporary picture of the missions is less a "bucolic arcadia" than a feudal labor camp, with natives beaten if they violated Catholic teachings or didn't work hard enough.

Was hellbent on erasing the local culture

And that is at the heart of contemporary opposition to Junipero Serra: .. that he helped to erase and destroy their culture.

Some critics call this "cultural genocide." .. Serra was interested in assimilating natives into "civilization." And for native groups, and many other contemporary progressives, it's a cultural imperialism that doesn't deserve to be honored.

But hey, who cares?
What counts in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church is that he did it the Catholic way:

It's usually a bad idea for non-Catholics to assume that Catholic saints were good people by non-Catholic standards. (Mother Teresa's .. advocacy against condoms at the height of the AIDS epidemic).

Pope Francis isn't an American progressive; he is a Catholic pope. And it's not surprising that he believes the "saving" of Native American souls was a good thing in and of itself.

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/24/9391995/junipero-serra-saint-pope-francis

[rug]

1. Do you find brutal colonialism silly?

[Warren Stupidity]

2. I posted about this psychopath Serra earlier.

But it is all ok because hey Frank is changing everything!

[Yorktown]

3. sorry about that. I'm just running the laundry list..

.. of all the nonsense Francis did or said while in the US.

Hoping it won't rehash some other OP, but I'm trying to be exhaustive.


Francis was pretty efficient with his nonsense/day ratio in the US.

[Cartoonist]

4. The Pope is deaf

Native American groups communicated their objections. Frank turned a deaf ear.

[Yorktown]

5. He couldn't care less

It doesn't matter what you really do in the RCC apparently,

as long as you do it by the book.


Mother Theresa is probably the most disgusting example of such fraud in the XXth century.

[niyad]

7. whenever I hear anyone praising her, I want to throw up.

[niyad]

6. people have been protesting the possiblity of that murdering serra being canonized for years now.

apparently pope photo op doesn't care about the truth.

[Yorktown]

8. pope photo op doesn't care about the truth?

You are shattering my immense respect for the man and his institution.

Are you trying to say the RCC could be a big team of snake oil salesmen?


When Francis looks so personable and likeable?

[niyad]

9. amazing, is it not?