(from wanderer :: worshipper :: lover of leaving)

The voice of an Aboriginal leader ...

"A central agent in the colonization of this hemisphere has been the Christian church. Whatever the church likes to believe its intentions were or are in making us the object of its missionary endeavours, history shows the missionary system to be colonialism in the name of Christ. The foundation of colonial Christianity rests on its power to monopolize definitions: who is godless, godly, and most godly, all stemming from Christianity’s definition of the essential nature of God ...

"For five hundred years the missionaries have been trying to save us. Look at the water, look at the sky, look at all the hungry children, look at all the machines of war. Brothers and sisters, it is now time for us to save the missionaries; it is time for us to return the sharing." (William Baldridge, "Reclaiming our Histories," Native and Christian).