THE FINAL LECTURE I WILL BRING FROM PROFESSOR EAKIN ON "THE CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS"
FIRST BACK TO POINT 51. BUT WHEN THE PRIESTS DISCOVER THIS [PRETENDING TO BE CATHOLIC BUT PRACTICING OLD NATIVE PAGAN RELIGION] THE ACTION IS FEROCIOUS.
52. FULL QUOTE FROM PROFESSOR EAKIN:
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"ONE EXAMPLE OF THIS: DIEGO de LANDA (1524-1579) - A BISHOP, DISCOVERS IN 1562 THAT SOME OF THE UKATEC MAYA, WHO HAVE "CONVERTED" [SUPPOSEDLY] MAYBE ENGAGING IN MUMAN SACRIFICE IN SECRET. HE INVOKES AN INQUISITION, AN OFFICIAL INQUISITION, IN WHICH THEY BEGIN TO INTERROGATE INDIANS IN THE REGION. EVENTUALLY NEARLY 5,000 INDIANS ARE INTERROGATED AND TORTURED! AND WHAT THEY UNCOVER IS A SORDID STORY OF THE INDIANS ENGAGING IN HUMAN SACRIFICE. BUT AS HISTORIANS SAY, WE CAN'T BE SURE IF THIS REALLY WAS GOING ON, BECAUSE THE INDIANS ARE TELLING THEM UNDER TORTURE. THEY ARE HANGING THEM WITH THEIR ARMS BEHIND THEM, TIES BY THE WRISTS, WITH WEIGHTS ON THEIR FEET. IT'S A BRUTAL INQUISITION, BUT IT SHOWS HOW DISILLUSIONED THE FRANCISCANS ARE. AFTER TWO DECADES OF CONVERSION WHICH THEY BELIEVED THEY HAD BROUGHT THOUSANDS OF THE MAYA; THEY DISCOVER IN FACT, THAT THIS HAS ALL BEEN A GAME.
AND INGA CLENDINNEN (1984) IN HER BOOK AMBIVALENT CONQUEST, HAS A BRILLIANT RECONSTRUCTION OF THIS.
OVER A PERIOD OF 3 MONTHS, NEARLY 200 INDIANS ARE KILLED, UNDER TORTURE; ANOTHER TWO DOZEN COMMIT SUICIDE, PROBABLY TO AVOID THE TORTURE.
SO IN THE ZEAL OF ROOTING OUT THIS HERESY, WHAT WE ARE ABLE TO SEE, BECAUSE IT IS SO WELL DOCUMENTED, IS IN FACT, SOME GLIMPSE OF THE INDIAN PERSPECTIVE AS TO WHAT'S TAKING SHAPE HERE. A BLENDING TAKES SHAPE. WHAT SHE SAW AT THE END OF HER BOOK, DESPITE THE STRUGGLE, BY THE END OF THE 16TH CENTURY AND BEGINNING OF THE 17TH CENTURY, WHAT YOU HAVE IS WHO ARE SPEAKING, AND THE LANGUAGE THEY ARE USING, IS A BLEND OF PRE-COLUMBIAN AND THE CHRISTIAN LANGUAGE.
SO THIS IS FOLK CATHOLICISM.
AFRICAN PEOPLE BRING WITH THEM INTO THE NEW WORLD MANY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS - ANIMISM, ISLAM, CHRISTIANITY. ISLAM HAD SPREAD ACROSS NORTH AFRICA AND DOWN THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA......
AFRICANS HAD BEEN STRIPPED OF ALL THEIR MATERIAL GOODS, BUT IN THIS MIDDLE PASSAGE THEY STILL HAVE ALL THIS CULTURE IN THEIR HEADS. AND THEY ATTEMPT TO RE-CREATE IT THIS ON THIS SIDE OF THE ATLANTIC.......THEY HOLD ON TO THEIR CULTURE."
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53. A BLENDING OF NATIVE RELIGIONS AND CHRISTIANITY.
54. THERE ARE ABOUT 16 DEITIES WHO EVENTUALLY MERGE WITH THE SAINTS, IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH; THE VIRGIN MARY; AND JESUS.
55. PROFESSOR EAKIN GIVES EXAMPLES.
56. A BLENDING WITH CATHOLICISM.
57. A SECRET UNDERWORLD OF THE OUT AND OUT PAGAN RELIGIONS CONTINUES, UNTIL MORE MODERN TIMES WHERE IT IS NOW OPEN AND FREE.
58. SOME OF THE PAGAN RELIGIONS ARE LIKE SOME OF THE PENTECOSTAL GROUPS - DANCE, TRANSE, BEING TAKEN OVER, IN A STATE OF UN-CONTROL; SPEAKING IN TONGUES; AN OUT OF MIND POSSESSION; THEN THEY COME BACK TO REALITY, THE NATURAL WORLD, THEN A COMMUNAL MEAL.
59. EVENTUALLY OLD RELIGIONS BLEND WITH ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
60. SO NEW RELIGIONS ARE FORMED - NO LONGER JUST NATIVE INDIAN, NO LONGER JUST AFRICAN, BUT A FORMING OF NEW AMERICAN RELIGIONS. FORMER NATIVE RELIGIONS INFLUENCED BY CHRISTIANITY.
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SO WE SEE THE MOTHER CHURCH OF ROME, WITH EVENTUALLY HER DAUGHTER PROTESTANT CHURCHES, COMBINING WITH NATIVE RELIGIONS AT TIMES, TO FORM NEW RELIGIONS.
IT IS BABYLON MYSTERY RELIGION, AND AS THE BOOK OF REVELATION SAYS, BABYLON MYSTERY RELIGION IS FILLED FULL WITH THE BLOOD OF THE SAINTS [AND OTHERS IT CALLED "HERETICS"] - NOT IN THE LEAST FEARING TO HOLD BACK, TO TORTURE AND KILL, THOSE WHO WOULD NOT FULLLY COMPLY TO THE THEOLOGY IT SET DOWN.
THERE IS YET TO COME ON THIS EARTH, WELL IN THE WESTERN WORLD, A TIME WHEN THE MOTHER CHURCH WILL AGAIN INSTITUTE PERSECUTION, TORTURE, AND DEATH, UPON THOSE WHO WILL NOT BOW THE KNEE TO ITS THEOLOGY. THERE IS YET TO BE A PERSECUTION ON THE TRUE CHURCH OF GOD.
ALL END TIME PROPHECY IS COVERED ON THIS WEBSITE.
Keith Hunt