• Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    That’s not the worst case. The worst case is Christians using the baptism as a pretext to forcibly take the children away from their parents.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think in that case the baptism is the pretext, just a step in that genocidal process. E.g. it wasn’t the baptisms that caused the Spanish to torture native Californian peoples.

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        I think we might be having a bit of miscommunication. By ‘pretext’ I don’t mean the root cause of the action, I mean the excuse given to justify the action.