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Date Posted: 09:48:41 05/27/06 Sat
Author: Dolora Zajick
Subject: Interestising discoveries, speculations and beliefs
In reply to: Dolora Zajick 's message, "Re: SPIRITUALITY vs. RELIGION" on 23:58:13 05/26/06 Fri

Interesting discoveries:
According to genetic migration studies, all caucasions and mogoloids, including Native Americans can trace their lineage to one man who lived somewhere near what is now modern Iran. This means we are brothers.

Also according to the same studies, all human beings can be traced back to one man and one woman who lived in Africa, but they lived thousands of years apart. This means we are all one family.

Adam comes from the word Adama, which comes from the Sumerian word Adapa which in ancient Sumerian means "red clay" According to the Sumerians the first man was fashioned of red clay and had dark red skin. Sumer was the first human civilization in what is now Iraq.

Migrations took thousands and thousands of years. All one had to do was move over a few miles or even acres, or seek food sources to move a population, but to that population, they will always have been in the same basic place. That is why many people will believe that they and their anscestors have always been in the same place.

Fundamentalist beliefs and scientific beliefs will always clash. The Catholics have an interesting perspective on this. It was interesting that they did not dispute the evolution by stating that "Intelligent design" did not belong in a science class, that they were separate issues, and used the famous Galileo incident as an example of what faith is not when the church insisted that the world was flat.

St, Francis, a Catholic saint saw the face of God in the twittering of birds and the waves of water, and Black Elk saw in a sacred manner, the oneness of all things and understood the true meaning of Communion.

Personally, I find no conflict with Christianity or Lakota ways, nor do I find conflict with science and faith, because science discovers what God created and burns away the dogma, and both religions when approached correctly honor the creator and teach humankind to love one another and to act with compassion.
A church or religious group is like a family with people of different ages. The young will have a literal belief and act because of the law. The more mature will understand the metaphorical and symbolic truth. The more advanced will translate that message into active acts of compassion. They become as children again, able to see God in everything he created, but without the dogma and will understand the meaning of Isaiah when he said that that the lion would lie down with the lamb on His holy mountain, and that there would be no need of the law because it would be written on their hearts.
To take away what is meaningful to someone is a crime, and that was the worst crime that was perpetrated against Native Americans. When their children were ripped away from their families and forced into boarding homes and Native Americans were forced into Christianity it forced them into either abandoning what they felt was sacred, or defending what they believed was sacred. I don't believe that punishing people because they are worshipping the Creator is quite what Jesus had in mind, and it gave Jesus a bad name. They had no right to force that on Native Americans.

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