Christianity

[politicus]

Christianity destroyed our Indigenous (Aboriginal) culture, tradition and way of life.... especially shamanism. Inuit shamanism was disappeared in over 100 years ago because they converted into Baptism (Christianity) in missionary back then. And they force Aboriginal children to speak English and believe in god in the horrific residential school. Genocide

Its interesting with the difference between the missionaries to the Inuits in Northern Canada and Greenland in this regard. In Greenland it was the missionaries that created Greenlandic as a written language to teach the Bible and Christian prayers and this secured the status of Greenlandic as a literary language and the preservation of Inuit myths and tales with the literary renaissance from the 1850s onwards and created standard Greenlandic as a medium of communication between groups with very different dialects.

The repression of Shamanism was of course the same, but in Greenland Christianity became an essential part of (West) Greenlandic identity from the late 1700s and onwards and their close relationship with Jiisusinguaq ("Sweet Jesus" - all though literarely just little Jesus) was central when nationalism started to take off among the educated elite from the mid 1800s onwards. It was only in the 1970s that the heathen heritage became important to national identity (for some) when young radical students reintroduced it. Even today their special relationship with Jesus is important to Greenlanders and there is at least one picture of Jiisusinguaq in 87% of all Greenlandic homes outside Nuuk according to a survey (and about 2/3 in Nuuk).

[politicus]

In any case, most Christians don't follow their religion literally either. If they did, they would be stoning gays in the street. Another thing the eastern religions are superior at. Much less stoning to death of undesirable groups.

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[politicus]

In any case, most Christians don't follow their religion literally either. If they did, they would be stoning gays in the street. Another thing the eastern religions are superior at. Much less stoning to death of undesirable groups.

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Yeah, because as we all know, the bible is very gay friendly.

1. "Let he who is pure throw the first stone".

2. OT clearly condemns same sex intercourse, but the extent to which OT law apply for Christians would always be a matter of interpretation, since NT contradicts itself on this issue. No literal reading of the Bible could in itself solve this issue.

3. There are only two seemingly anti-gay passages in NT (Paul, not Jesus). If you go to the original wording one of them is about boy prostitution and the other one is part of a condemnation of orgies and not necessarily relevant in other contexts.

So while the Bible is not exactly gay friendly, a literal reading of the Bible would not in itself give one reason to stone gays or hate them. There are obviously plenty of people willing to use the Bible as pretext for their homophobia, but that is another matter.

And even if you consider homosexualty a sin, executing people because of their sins would of course always contradict the Bible.