Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Western Christianity has no old testament/original instructions of its various peoples. It has universalized and appropriated the Hebrew teachings/history and bastardized them with interpretive violence. They are the empty souls Ray Aldred has spoken of, cut loose from the earth and wandering about homeless. They have become wendigo and now exist by consuming souls. This is why they appropriate Indigenous identity and culture - because they see/feel themselves bereft of their own. When white people say they have no culture, it is true!

White/Euro Christians must own their own histories as peoples and their connections to their homelands. They must embrace the embarrassment of their incestuous kings, outrageous wars, and indignities enacted upon others. They must embrace their mother the earth that is both stained with the blood of their sins, ravaged by their wendigo existence, and who now lovingly embraces their ancestors and in gracious generosity continues to feed them.

The shedding of blood forges ties that will draw the protagonists together for reckoning again some day. Violence and war turns the faces of opponents toward one another and all the efforts to deny the existence of the other only serve to impel them together in a great resolution, drawing irresistibly to intimacy demanded by consequence.