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It's amazing to me that for the last couple days Canadians have been mourning the state sponsored massacre of 215 children, yet then turn around and still say "We don't need a right to free speech or to bear arms. The government knows what's best for you and your children. The Police are your friends. Trust the state. Vote for more state power." It wasn't some priests showing up to reserves and stripping children away from their parents. It was the RCMP. Ordered to do so by the Federal government. That's what the state enforcers do, they follow the orders of the state. They're not magical ethical arbiters trained in philosophy of right and wrong, they're thugs who do whatever is told to them by the ones who pay their salary.
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According to all records, slavery and cannibalism were rampant at the time. “Maquinna is notable also for having kept European slaves on a number of occasions. The most detailed account is told in the writings of John R. Jewitt, one of two slaves kept for several years after the crew of the ship Boston was massacred by Maquinna and his men. A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound: with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives is one of the first published glimpses into the social and cultural life of the Pacific Northwest peoples. Jewitt refers to Maquinna throughout as "king" and those beneath him as "chiefs". Maquinna required Jewitt to learn the Nuu-chah-nulth language, and told him that the ship Boston was taken in response to several depredations committed by earlier American and Spanish visitors. Jewitt was rescued in 1805 by Samuel Hill, captain of the brig Lydia.”
Check out the cannibalistic details at https://i.imgur.com/InzlPVI.png
The Narrative also describes an earlier, less fortunate, group of European slaves who were eventually sentenced to death by Maquinna after they attempted to escape to the lands of the Tla-o-qui-aht (Clayoquot) whose chief was Maquinna's rival, Wickaninnish. The one slave who had not tried to escape was eventually sold to Chief Wickaninnish and reportedly died shortly after hearing of the taking of the Boston.
- It's true. It's true that people were buried outside of an institution, just like it's true of any prison, asylum, etc. in all of western history. 215 isn’t that many over 90+ years of operation when you take into account typical child mortality of the time.
You seem to be forgetting:
Mongols
Mamluks
Ottomans
Japanese
Persians
Just to name a few. And then there is the case of:
The Muslim Conquest
The Arab Slave Trade
African Slavery
Aztec Slavery
Slavery in Asia
Every sufficiently large group of people has the potential to commit great crimes. You are not helping anyone by presenting this kind of black and white narrative.
While the new atheists complain about the evil done by religious people, the same atheists are suspiciously silent about the evil done by their fellow atheists. If we’re looking at raw numbers, the impact of evil done by atheists in just a few decades of the twentieth century dwarfs anything done by theists in the last 500 years. Yet the new atheists say little about it. An older atheist did. Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously said “God is dead. . . . And we have killed him,” died in 1900. But he predicted that killing belief in God in the 1800s would result in the mass killing of human beings in the 1900s. His prophecy couldn’t have been more accurate. Over just a few decades, Stalin, Hitler, and Mao together murdered as many as 100 million people. By contrast, over a 500 year period, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and witch burnings together were responsible for about 200,000 deaths. That’s far less than 1 percent of the atheist totals. (Don’t get me wrong—it’s still terrible. But it’s nothing like the havoc imposed by unbelievers.)”
Religious wars are almost invariably fought not because of religion, but nationality. Look at the 30 years war. That was supposedly a catholic-protestant war, but in reality, France, a Catholic nation, fought against the catholic habsburg empires. The ottomans spent more time fighting the persians than the Europeans, despite the persians and ottomans being Muslim and the Europeans being infidels. Hell, even Britain and France made an alliance with the Muslim ottomans against the Christian Russians. Religion isn't the reason wars happen.
The NSDAP was Catholic, the USSR was atheistic from the middle down but Jewish at the top. The CCP is the truly atheistic engine of genocide, but I'm not sure what atheism supplanted in China. Confucianism presumably? I don't think that was the God which Nietzshe was referencing.