Originally published in iampeacemaker, July 2, 2023
I am saddened but understand why many Indigenous people in Canada stand up for themselves by choosing not to celebrate Canada Day,
Edit: or Thanksgiving for that matter.
Canada has to continue to make up for the mistakes and institutionalized dogmas of colonialism and the victimization/genocide of Indigenous people here who have always had breathtakingly beautiful cultures, practices, and beliefs.
But please, people, think about no longer attaching blame to Canada. Below are my reasons why.
Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island, what we now know as the North America, were victims of colonialism and cultural genocide.
Colonialism was a Roman practice, carried on by the Anglican and Roman Catholic Church pressing the countries of Kings they “crowned” to discover new lands, regardless of whether they were already inhabited.
They wanted new church members, and ownership of the land. They committed cultural genocide, not only handing out to Indigenous people disease-infested blankets…
… but then for 160 years forcefully breaking families apart and sending children to Residential Schools, where they were not allowed to celebrate their ancestors, cut their hair short, take away their clothes, many kids were abused and many murdered too.
This was done by someone claiming to be a moral authority.
I am not declaring war on the Roman Catholic Church… but it’s finally time for the truth to be recognized.
Christopher Columbus, the Italian conquistador, who, with Spanish ships and financed by Catholic Monarchs… “discovered?” North America?
How history has been re-written!
Portugal, Spain, France, and England, all have something in common.
What remained of the Holy Roman Empire after the rise of Europe, was an incredibly wealthy patriarchy based within the heart of the Vatican.
The Roman Catholic Church still today practices conquest-like dogmas and traditions by glorifying war-like uniforms on the present-day Knights of Columbus, and portrays them as evangelists of Roman Catholicism.
King Henry VIII may have issued a revolt against the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and renamed it the Church of England, a.k.a. Anglican… but world conquest remained their shared method of “evangelization”, aka colonialism, straight through the western “wilderness”, already inhabited by Indigenous people, Viking settlers, and others peoples as well.
The attempted genocide of the Indigenous peoples were a result of Rome’s “evangelization”.
The Indigenous people here were warm and peaceful for the most part… and still are.
The hesitancy of the remaining Indigenous population to trust the government of Canada is fully understandable.
The current Canadian government is listening, and trying to make it right… even though they were literally along for the ride, and it was not their fault.
Untold millions of slaughters of Jews, allied gentiles, the bloody march of the Crusades across Europe and into Jerusalem, all marked the rise of the Roman Catholic Church.
Catholic parish members and Anglicans that remain do not deserve blame either, at all. They do not share this information with parishioners.
Being raised Roman Catholic myself, I know of many devout priests, deacons, and religious brothers and sisters who truly do love and honor our Creator Jehovah, Yeshua as they know Him, and the Holy Spirit of Life and Love, with their whole hearts, dedicating their lives to goodness and light.
I’m not saying all of their teachers were bad. Some were Holy and good, many Catholics were martyred for doing good.
Their drive to enforce the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church was a result of the deception of their own unquestionably Vatican-backed established leaders.
Their efforts to maintain the monopoly over true knowledge that was removed, kept, or changed from the King James Version of the Holy Bible, resulted in a terrible imbalance of power, allowing Rome to continue conquesting, even after the alleged fall of Rome in Europe.
New World Prophecy.
The Hebrew prophets even 2800 years ago prophesied that the coming Messiah would save His chosen people from oppression and take their land back.
However, Yeshua was captured by Romans and disturbingly flayed publicly then nailed to a beam.
Any people who wanted to uphold Yeshua’s name after that were also killed in like fashion. Almost all evidence of this was destroyed by the obliteration of Jerusalem in 70 CE.
Their promised land was “gifted” back to them after World War II, though persecution continued.
The Soviet Communists detained many more Jews of eastern Europe, repeatedly torturing and beating untold more, to force Atheism down their throats.
In the late 1980s, with the destruction of the East German Wall, US President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II were instrumental in the Jews’ peaceful release, allowing them to return to their ancestral land… undoubtedly incredibly traumatized… no wonder some turn to militancy, much to the glory of their enemies who would hold anything against them.
They are incessantly badgered by those who feel they have no right to that land, where they continue to fight today, TO AVOID BEING ANNIHALATED.
Their right to exist is incessantly mis-represented resulting in the continuing wars of the Middle East.
The Indigenous and Metis example in Turtle Island were conquered and colonized just like Judea was. There’s the connection.
During the establishment of the country of Canada, most of the new settlers faced poverty and hunger, they needed medical care and help learning how to survive here.
Many were given medical treatment by the friendly native peoples. Treaties were forged between Indigenous nation governments and colonial governments, then encroached upon by those in power to the extreme, the government-endorsed Roman Catholic Residential Schools, and loss of rights to their lands that were supposed to remain protected by treaty.
Residential School survivors and generations reeling from the trauma, tens of thousands and more innocent children martyred for their heritage and buried in unmarked graves, most of today’s surviving native people remain peaceful as they fight to protect their land, much of the time, using diplomacy and peaceful protest.
The natives welcomed and assisted Canada’s settlers. The Indigenous and Metis people here should be held up high and honored for continuing to exemplify peace and forgiveness in the wake of their own persecution.
Most of the native people that I meet here are proud to be Canadians, even as they continue to fight peacefully for their treaties and land rights. What an example of good inclusive people!
Canada is a nation promoting peace and Human Rights that offers solace to persecuted people around the globe. Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindu, and coexisting Atheists are ALL welcome here, where they are protected by law-keepers and our Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We are proud of our diversity, we choose our lifestyles and religion, and are still willing to dedicate our lives to fight oppression and provide living examples of peace, diversity, coexistence, humanitarianism, and neighborly love.
I hope that Rome’s days of conquest are over. They have to be, at least in Canada. They have asked forgiveness of the Indigenous Nations for the offences of the Residential Schools. We desperately need our Indigenous people to exemplify grace in their example.
Whatever our faith or creed, we must accept and love our diversity, care for our neighbors, and support each other within our communities, locally, and globally, championing the human rights and freedoms of ALL people.
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Strength To Love
Peace, and wholeness,
Elaine
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