[lbo-talk] labels (was: Arguments for a Secular America (Was : 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge)

Chris Doss itschris13 at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 6 08:00:26 PDT 2003



>From: Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at dodo.com.au>


>True as far as it goes. But the missionaries did not just coincidentally
>arrive with the colonial authorities. The colonial authorities needed to
>eliminate the independent culture of the local population, whose cultures
>of course were conveyed in their religion. The tried and true way of
>destroying a local culture was to impose a different religion, conveying
>different cultural values, on the local population.

Cue to Luke: Set up democratic missionary schools throughout the world!

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