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How I read the code (and RED “the code”):
:coolinoff: - phew, *well I guess it’s a good thing the Church didn’t do any of that then!
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Sometimes we can read things wrong though.
I also get the sense that someone thinks Serra was really guilty of something or other.
Genocide? If Serra had done that … he’d have had no converts.
Slavery? Rather Serra helped lift the comparatively primitive peoples into an even better life on EARTH notwithstanding that Catholicism was a vast improvement over the deluded paganism the missionaries found about in “alta California”. For example the old stereotypical “sacrificing a virgin” (girl) to appease nature or an angry deity was actually done by one to the dominant tribes in the south (LA Basin and Catalina Island).
Serra and the Catholic missionaries rather taught against murder and slavery. And in fact interceded for peace and forgiveness (with the military … against reprisals) when some of the misssionarires’ own number were killed near San Diego.
Slavery? The Indians were never slaves, but did participate in the building of the missions. They also benefitted from trade with the Spanish, whose ships brought goods from afar that greatly improved the quality of living … and bought furs and food from the natives as well.
Some devil Serra was. Left a comfortable university job in Spain to spread the word of Jesus in a hostile new world. With a motto of “always forward, never back …” he travelled relentlessly in building the chain of missions, named for Angels and Saints. Again he’d leave the comfort of an established mission to go and build more.
If Serra was a devil … Satan’s house would have been pretty divided. And old Scratch would be tearing his hair out. If demons had hair.
I wonder what the earliest DATE for making such claims against Serra might be?
Never heard any of this in my PUBLIC School’s History of California classes in the 1960s.
My husband and I are Americans that live in California. My husband is Scottish and Osage Indian. I am German, Irish, Portuguese and French. We were born in the United States of America.
We are very happy to be Americans. Thank you.
Sorry if people disagree (no I’m not), but this is cowardice and mob mentality. Any excuse to vandalize. If they did their homework they wouldn’t be doing this.