To: michael97123 who wrote (252378 ) 12/26/2007 6:46:16 PM From: one_less Respond to The conquest of Canaan aint over till you say its over… but lest we get too warm and cozy about the concept, let’s review some recent history."I shall need...the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old, from their native land and planted them in a country flowing with all the necessities and comforts of life." Ruffians committed against Native Americans. He poured out his moral outrage on European Christians, including the English colonists. In his sermon "A Caution Against Bigotry," Wesley doesn't gloss over anything:“Even in cruelty and bloodshed, how little have the Christians come behind them! And not the Spaniards or the Portuguese alone, butchering thousands in South America; not the Dutch only in the East Indies, or the French in North America, following the Spaniards step by step: our own countrymen, too, have wantoned in blood, and exterminated whole nations; plainly proving thereby what spirit it is that dwells and works in the children of disobedience .” 9 million Americans, slaughtering one another , brother unto brother.
