The United States also has a religiously sanctioned cleansing in its founding

Evidence

Certainly no one writing from the United States, founded on territory “cleansed” (with religious sanction) of its native inhabitants and built with the labor of another people seized as slaves from their ancestral homeland, could possibly claim a shred of moral superiority. Nor could anyone watching the Christian Identity movement’s instigation of racial and religious warfare find any cause for comfort. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 249

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to a friend who thinks genocide is a foreign problem detached from Western religious history.
• XREF: connects to: America’s founders created the first secular republic. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 509

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