Friday, September 24, 2010

American History of Religion and the Chaos it Brings

Smithsonian article: "America's True History of Religious Tolerance"
"From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”—including the “heathen” natives already here."
Did somebody say "Heathen"?!

Via Neatorama.com
(Click the pic for the whole story!)

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