Am I a real Christian?

Originally posted by galveston75
Yeah Ron, just get out your guns and kill them all. Right? Of course you would have.......

Perhaps it was good for us that there were no JWs at that time.

Originally posted by RJHinds
Well my honest answer is that if he had been a Jehovah's Witness that more white settlers would have been scalped and murdered by the Indians, because he would not have tried to stop or fought against them.

Hardly because the Native Americans would not have felt threatened. I am pleased to say that we have some beautiful blackfoot brothers and sisters who praise the father of the celestial lights, Jehovah himself.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Hardly because the Native Americans would not have felt threatened. I am pleased to say that we have some beautiful blackfoot brothers and sisters who praise the father of the celestial lights, Jehovah himself.

Well, we might have felt the Native Americans should not have felt threatened because some white skin settlers had moved into land they used for hunting, but apparently they did because they began murdering and scalping those settlers and burning down their log cabins.

-Removed-

Nevertheless, you could answer the question in the spirit I intended it, so that I could more closely understand your position.

Originally posted by RJHinds
Well, we might have felt the Native Americans should not have felt threatened because some white skin settlers had moved into land they used for hunting, but apparently they did because they began murdering and scalping those settlers and burning down their log cabins.

Because the white man had this idea of "Manifest Destiny", regardless of who was living here at the time. The white man appropriated land, killed off the bison for sport, stripped the land for gold and did not understand the treaty the Native American had forged with the Creator to respect Nature. They had come to murder the Sioux, the Cheyenne and the Lakota (and all the rest of the tribes) because they coveted what they had. This was a sin even by the white man's own standards, yet this did not stop them. The People were righteously defending themselves.

Edit: I don't go down to the reservations anymore. I used to go there to witness for Christ, but I cannot stomach seeing a once proud people living in squalor on small sections of land the white man considers useless. It is disgusting what we have done to these people. It is unconscionable and immensely sad to see, it makes me want to vomit to see how the government forces these people to live as not even third-class citizens in what is essentially bondage.

Originally posted by Suzianne
Because the white man had this idea of "Manifest Destiny", regardless of who was living here at the time. The white man appropriated land, killed off the bison for sport, stripped the land for gold and did not understand the treaty the Native American had forged with the Creator to respect Nature. They had come to murder the Sioux, the Cheyenne and the La ...[text shortened]... 's own standards, yet this did not stop them. The People were righteously defending themselves.

But the Indians started the killing and scalping and the white man retaliated by killing and scalping.

Originally posted by RJHinds
But the Indians started the killing and scalping and the white man retaliated by killing and scalping.

This is not true.

Originally posted by Suzianne
This is not true.

You must have been taught a revisionist's history. Does it really make sense to you that the white man would really start killing and scalping the Indians first? What other historical evidence is there that white men from Europe were in the habit of scalping their enemies?