Hi Friends
There was a rather disturbing report on APTN the other night over a Cree community in northern Quebec banning a sweat lodge and endorsing Christianity over Native spiritualism.
This was reminiscent of the mosque at ground zero controversy for me. I characterize it more as a tempest in a tea pot. But then I am not of any religious persuasion.
The usually, accepting Aboriginal communities from coast to coast, weighed in with what I can only describe as the usual intolerance of any other religious community.
read the comments as well...
To me this was more of a condemnation of Native spirituality than anything else I have ever heard, done by various First Nations' citizens and directed at other members of a First Nation community. We are no better than the haters from other religious factions within the global communities. For better or worse,... we are the same.
We share many of the same traits as the people we profess to be trying not, to emulate.
Our politicians lie to us. Our men abuse our women, our children are beaten and abused by their own parents, and our elders are every bit as ignored and shuttled off to homes as often as any others.
What is the ultimate lesson here? Have we attained equality, and is this the equality we want?
Now I could mention, "Stockholm syndrome" as a possible excuse, or call for an out right ban on religious practices, or even bully others into adopting my philosophies...but then I am left with another conundrum...exactly how many wrongs does it take, to make a right?
The fact that this story was in the news on Martin Luther King day was not lost on me, and in the words of another famous King I respectfully ask...
"Can't we all just get along?"
Rodney King ( L.A riots May 1992)
Regards Debra
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