Religion as a tool of commerce and
elite is well established in oppressive doctrine called Manifest Destiny as well as more recent Rerum Novarum. It makes me chuckle to see complaint of Roger Williams who founded Rhode Island to get ‘away from’ kind of thing Indians suffered under - far, far and indeed farthest imaginable ‘away from’ from is what we all should strive to allow. It raises mercantile progress above all else and Yanomami in Brazil are being genocidally dealt with under this doctrine to this very day. Here is a little from a book titled Manifest Destiny and words of Roger Williams to see if you can find humor in situation. “… primary test for full citizenship became membership in Puritan church. Within these limits—and they were narrow, for Puritans did not tolerate differences of religious opinion—Massachusetts practiced self-government free from outside control… More important, such access gave energetic Puritan merchants an opportunity to join in profitable trade which grew up between America, West Indies and Great Britain. {Which included slavery and other immoral rip-offs of natives who had helped them.}
Not everyone found tight Puritan rule of Massachusetts to his liking. Roger Williams was one of those who resisted strict standards of religious orthodoxy for citizenship… After a bitter dispute with ruling oligarchy {Eastern Establishment of today.} in Massachusetts, Williams was forced to flee and he organized a new colony at Providence, Rhode Island. In 1644 Williams obtained a charter for colony of Rhode Island, The new colony’s liberality was well described in vigorous seventeenth-century prose of Williams himself: ‘We have long drunk cup of as great liberties as any people we can hear of under whole of heaven. We have not only been long free… from iron yoke of wolfish bishops, and Popish ceremonies… We have not felt new chains of Presbyterian tyrants, nor in this colony have we been consumed with over-zealous fire of (so-called) godly Christian Magistrates.’” (3)
I will stifle my disgust at way power-mongers indulge ego and immoral duplicity in their constant need to dominate.
“In order to properly grasp spirit in which this book is written, it is necessary to remember that though it is not altogether an Indian story, it has an Indian background. The considering attitude towards all nature which appears throughout work, is best explained by a quotation from John G. Guilford’s Story of Seminole War.
“‘The meaning of sovereignty is not very clear to primitive peoples, especially to Indian. He rarely dominated things around him; he was a part of nature and not its boss.’ Hewitt says of Indian:’
‘In his own country… he is a harmonious element in a landscape that is incomparable in its nobility of colour and mass and feeling of Unchangeable. He never dominates it as does European his environment, but belongs there as do mesas, skies, sunshine, spaces and other living creatures. He takes his part in it with clouds, winds, rocks, plants, birds and beasts, with drum beat and chant and symbolic gesture, keeping time with seasons, moving in orderly procession with nature, holding to unity of life in all things, seeking no superior place for himself but merely a state of harmony with all created things… most rhythmic life… that is lived among races of men.’ This viewpoint is not peculiar to people of native blood but it is often found in those other races who have resided for many years in wilderness.” (4)
The behind scenes brokers of power like Pierre Dupont de Nemours and Eli Lilly or Rothschilds and Rockefellers of Merovingians are seen as supporters of much of alternative history and humanistic efforts made in various times or eras of our history. Dupont arranged Armistice to satisfy his relative King George who some say financed US War of Independence and needed to get his debt repaid. My brother Russ tells me Queen’s Rangers who became Queen’s York Rangers he was part of in Toronto. They felt they could have beaten Washington’s army who they outnumbered even without British troops. Then we saw Duponts start armaments industry in America and rest, as they say, is history. This is what Manifest Destiny is really all about and it has little to do with theological ideology of Divine Providence and ascending nature of man’s evolution. You might know Sam Houston retired to live with Cherokee after his stint in halls of political intrigue. Here are some things you might feel deserve consideration.
"Texas hero and governor Sam Houston reportedly was a member of Knights {In my travels only overt and openly seen storefront KKK operation I saw was in Houston's suburb when I called on manager of Mickey Gilley's bar.} at time but resigned when Knights turned their attention from invasion of Mexico to secessionist movement.
It was in cause of Southern secession that Bickley proved more successful, as KGC came to form nucleus of Southern military. According to writer Ollinger Crenshaw, 'The Southern press received plans of order with enthusiasm and many newspapers became its exponents... The Vicksburg 'Sun' said Knights of Golden Circle gave South a military organization capable of defending her rights at home and abroad.'
