Why do Christians use censorship to defend their religious beliefs?
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Because they don't wish to face the actual past and it's rather ghastly realities. Manifest Destiny, for one. You can also look at the history of Utah and the Mormons. Mountain Meadows Massacre, for one. Trail of Tears. Slavery. The treatment of Asians. You can go look up the Hells Canyon Massacre, where 30 plus Chinese miners were slaughtered, and the killers, who were known, got off virtually scot-free. That's in Oregon. You know, 'liberal heaven'? Yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hells_Canyon_massacr...
Also, in America, the Tulsa Riots. The history of boarding schools for Native American children, who were stripped of their culture, language and families by 'good' Christians, and often forcibly kept in near or actual slavery. See Mormons for this one, too. That's up until recently.
"These early Christian Puritans thought that by colonizing the West Coast, they would bring their Christian values and ideals to the ‘uncivilized’ native residents. In actuality, what they brought instead was death, disease, and many other hardships focused mainly on the Native American ‘savages’ that inhabited much of this area during that time. Manifest destiny was far too often used as a tool of justification for cruelty and unethical treatment of the ‘godless’ Native Americans. These natives were thought of as inferior beings because of their lack of organized religion and primitive lifestyles." David G. MacCaffee
Plus, see David Barton and others trying desperately to turn America into some sort of hallowed Christian stomping ground where only good things happened because Christians showed up to gently and kindly show the people already living there the True Way...vomit vomit. You'll see people on here trying to say America was established as a Christian nation. Um, no. No. That speaks to justifying and whitewashing and reworking history. By Christians for those Christians that rework history group of Christians approve of.
Plus they don't wish to lose their power and privilege, while crying and screaming all over global media what victims they are or how they're the 'real' victims here.
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