God...fact or fiction? ( Archived) (926)

"God answers us" ??

Maria !! You got a brain (from God or from nature, as you like) why are you not using it ?

You have "no doughts" (?)..."no donuts" (?)...or doubts ?

YOU never really used the brain that was given to YOU !

So why do you have it ? To follow silly ideas ? To let it get impressed by strange feelings in church ? No, you have it to use it for YOURSELF.

What you call the truth is just a day-dream and if you go on like this you will become just another victim of those preachers.

Thanks Ray, some truth for sure.....

Nevertheless, the story of the encounter between European settlers and America’s native population does not make for pleasant reading. Among early accounts, perhaps the most famous is Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor (1888), a doleful recitation of forced removals, killings, and callous disregard. Jackson’s book, which clearly captured some essential elements of what happened, also set a pattern of exaggeration and one-sided indictment that has persisted to this day.

Thus, according to Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, the reduction of the North American Indian population from an estimated 12 million in 1500 to barely 237,000 in 1900 represents a "vast genocide . . . , the most sustained on record." By the end of the 19th century, writes David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, native Americans had undergone the "worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people." In the judgment of Lenore A. Stiffarm and Phil Lane, Jr., "there can be no more monumental example of sustained genocide—certainly none involving a 'race' of people as broad and complex as this—anywhere in the annals of human history."

Let's not dispute on the numbers....the fact is sad enough !

And on top, the Europeans are to blame, as there were no other Americans beside those poor "Indians".

Which leads us to the conclusion that the US were not built on christian believes but on European wars of conquest !

Sorry gnomie, you're mixing up truth and belief !

The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with FACT or REALITY in particular !

Though the term has no single definition about which the majority of professional philosophers and scholars agree, it is mostly based on FACTS and not stories !!