We always like to call Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Castro, Mugabe, al Qaeda and the Taliban as mass murderers but, oh no, never ourselves. We are always angels and have God on our side, so what we do is just fine!
Colonialism and subjugation, imperialism and domination of others, of strangers, of foreigners. And, this carry on went on for centuries, all over the world; and was official government policy and was widely accepted as very proper, civilised behaviour. Even accepted by the Church and virtually all individual Christians and who went in on the coat tails of the explorers, traders and the armed forces to make Christians of the heathen natives. This behaviour of domination and empire building all too soon led to the pernicious and murderous slave trade - again, with the Church fully implicated in this crime against humanity. Astonishing!
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