Educators on the Fort Apache Reservation have repeatedly condemned teens for participating in a sacred dance. It follows a pattern of Christian discipline begun more than a century ago
I don't care if they participated in a satanic ritual, Christian mass or if they summoned Yog-Sothoth, that has nothing to do with school, there should be no way for people to be expelled for something like that. And to top it off, it was a fucking dance ceremony.
At the time, her private school’s teachers were mostly white people who would often discuss the satanic nature of Apache traditions
I would agree, but it also wasn't a public school. Parochial schools in some places can be lax on the "Monday through Friday" type of school and focus on the Sunday School part.
I’m so sick of Christians 😤 this is the second article I have seen this week abt ppl being labeled satanic, wtf. Satanic panic part 2 electric boogaloo? Or did the first part even end?
If you're unfamiliar, Christian religion is built on a very simple binary: "one true God" vs "everything else." There's a mess of variations but basically the devil/satin/Lucifer/whatever is the guiding had between that "everything else" whether the participants know/admit it or not. God may or may not be 3 entities depending on who you ask.
What the fuck is wrong with people. Let people practice whatever they want. I get the school is private, but it's on a Native American reservation, what do they expect?
(It's customary to get permission from tribe elders before naming military equipment after them, and in the above case there was a Lakota dedication ceremony for the UH-72A Lakota helicopter.)
When I talked to Dr Robert P Jones, the president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), a non-profit, non-partisan organization, he was dismayed that churches still teach against Indigenous tradition.
Apache members, teachers and pastors have been faithful leaders as our Wels churches strive to present God’s truth among communities with their own valued religious practices.
Referring to how white missionaries target communities of color and paint their converts as impoverished victims in need of Christianity, Jones, the Public Religion Research Institute founder, said: “I’ll put it as bluntly as I can.
He continued: “If you happen to be a Christian and of European extraction in some way, it’s a pretty powerful drug to think that your race and your religion were chosen by God and represent the pinnacle of human achievement.
The morning of Good Friday, Father John Cormack, presiding priest of St Francis of Assisi Catholic church in Fort Apache, agreed to an interview in his office.
Following a visit to the church, she got in her car to make her way back to Mesa Community College, but made one sacred stop at Oak Flat, a swath of land in the Tonto national forest of utmost sanctity.
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