The conquerors of the New World are now having to admit the reality of history:

—The conquerors of the New World are now having to admit the reality of history: tribal peoples reduced to a few survivors, civilizations extinguished, technologies – such as the stone masonry of the Incas – lost for all time, in the name of a universal religion.

Christianity became a mask for Aryanism; now the mask is being removed, and the painful choice faced, between Universalism and Particularism. When major TV documentaries, such as 500 Nations, portray the European coming to North America from the point of view of the native tribes and civilizations, it raises the problem of reconciling this conquest with the universalism which came through Christianity.

The native peoples are now recovering their dignity, their religion and their beauty, while “White Christians” are losing theirs. Now that the West has a multiracial, multicultural society, “White Christians” are not sure what to call themselves, how to think of themselves: as “Whites” (particularist) or as “Christians” (universalist).—


Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 13:17:00 UTC

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