MDMD: Jesuits in China and North America

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Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> Following on my last post comparing  Jesuits and English missionaries in
> North America, it also appears that the Jesuits did a similar kind of
> re-interpreation of the native American spiritual traditions they
> encountered, telling their Christian story in ways the native would find
> familiar. It's also true that many of those they "converted" did so only in
> the most ambiguous terms, often for purely economic gains. The Indian
> tribes appear to have engaged in a fairly subtle realpolitik of playing the
> French against the English to their own advantage, a strategy that
> succeeded but unfortunately only up to a point.

 There is no corner of the globe where they have not been, no language
they have failed to learn, no art or science they have failed to master
and influence profoundly (the record of their achievements in the arts
and sciences has been distorted and erased by both the RC Church and the
enemies of the RC Church) there is no form of torture and death unknown
to the order. In history and to this day, Jesuits are being hanged,
burned, crucified, drawn and quartered, disemboweled, flayed, eaten,
beheaded, and drowned. In four hundred years the Jesuits gave the Church
thirty-eight canonized Saints, 134 holy men blessed, 36 venerables, 115
servants of God, 243 martyrs--that is, they died for their beliefs. Like
Cherrycoke, they have lived and adapted to N.A. Indian life, the
Chinese, in all of India, all of Europe, and most of Africa. They are
The Pope's Men and the enemy of the Pope. So I don't believe Dixon's
astonishment at the massacre. Don't believe Mason's outrage. They have
known massacre. What are these people about? Oh come now, are we to
believe that a couple of smart men like Dixon and Mason don't know
anything about the English crimes the Irish wenches with brogues as
thick as Oatmeal know of? 


http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/texts/glen_on_indians.html