

I have no fucking idea, I don't read Hindi (although I've worked with it, textually). Somebody help me out here...
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It’s arresting to think of how different the history of the American settlement and expansion could have been if the other indigenous peoples had followed Pocahontas’s example. She not only recognized the superiority of the God whom the colonists worshipped over the gods of her native people, she recognized the superiority (not the perfection) of their culture and adopted its patterns and language as her own.You can just sense his blood racing at the thought. Fischer has the classic blind spot of ignorance about history, culture, and what constitutes "religion" in general even when he's thinking about his own. He has no more conception of the spiritual beliefs—much less the culture and values—of native Americans than they did of the white colonists. What he's really saying here is, "if only people who had for no rational reason stopped being themselves and become "us" it would have been so much better for us."
The rotunda of the United States Capitol since 1840 (before political correctness began radically distorting American history) has featured a huge mural by John Gadsby Chapman which pictures the Christian baptism of Pocahontas.
Early in 1617 Pocahontas and her party prepared to return to Virginia. However, she became ill while in the village at Gravesend. Pocahantas had developed a case of smallpox, an infectious and dangerous disease caused by a virus and leading to high fever. Pocahantas died from the disease and was buried in Gravesend Church.I guess the Lord decided it was her time to go. Along with millions of other native Americans, thus making the rape of the Americas much simpler than Fischer's surprisingly naïve vision of assimilation, which would have left way too many undesirable, subhuman Christians around. Disease killed off the vast majority of them. The fool hasn't even thought of this yet. Maybe he'll get around to it in his next post.
Suzanne Mettler's piece in Perspectives on Politics has many fascinating arguments about the political consequences of public ignorance about the benefits that people receive from the state. But this table is jawdropping. It shows the percentage of people who (a) benefit from various programs, and (b) claim in response to a government survey that they 'have not used a government social program.'
As bad as the Super Bowl ticket fiasco ended up being for the NFL, it could have been much, much worse. Documents released by the City of Arlington on Friday indicate a concern by at least one Arlington official that the Cowboys were willing to roll the dice and take their chances that seats not cleared by the local officials wouldn’t, you know, collapse.NBC Sports
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