Is this still the 19th century?

Pharyngula 2024-07-02

Summary:

One hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, pious Christian churches would gather donations to fund missionary work — they’d send people to Africa or to Indian reservations to ‘enlighten’ the heathen, which often meant chastising native peoples for living life without proper obedience to Christian authorities. These frequently had horrible consequences. Here in the […]

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PZ Myers

Date tagged:

07/02/2024, 09:30

Date published:

07/02/2024, 09:09