Ryan M. Reeve (PhD Cambridge) is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Twitter: / ryanmreeves Instagram: / ryreeves4
Non-resistance to disease and its destructive consequences is still a problem today for isolated peoples. According to the charity, ""Survival International," measles is wreaking havoc amongst the Yanomami people of the Venezuela-Brazil border and the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. It is not just a terrible fact of history, but something that still goes on today.
Ryan Reeves, how do you feel about the catholic presence in Jamestown, discovered by the jamestown rediscovery group last year. They are saying there was cannibalism and have found catholic reliquaries and rosary. The archaeology project has a youtube channel.
Haven't looked into it personally but it sounds interesting. Likely the evidence will still be inconclusive (and what we had already was contradictory to any single narrative to explain it). I'll check it out, though!
I wonder how much difference it made that the western hemispheric settlements had colonial governors instead of hereditary barons/counts/earls/dukes. People with landed titles seemed to feel entitled to decree the religion of their regions and subjects for some reason, rather than going along with religious diversity.
Don't you think it's likely that if America hadn't separated from Britain, their lobbying power and provision of cotton would be such that Britain would not have abolised slavery so early? So, Revolutionary and Civil War averted, but enslaved peoples remaining enslaved until much much later.
ENTIRELY shaped by race and slavery? That is a bit much. As for the slave trade, much of it was domestic. For example, wiki reports that only 2,500 slaves were imported to the US after 1825. About 400,000 slaves were shipped to the USA in total, but the slave population in 1860 was almost 4 million. The vast majority of slaves in 1860 had not been shipped to America, they had been born in the USA.
Key word for me is 'shaped'. I do not mean by this 'determined' or something to suggest race and slavery are all we talk about. But it is very much part of every systemic context in modern America, sometimes greater, sometimes lesser.
+Troy Dellinger // Other countries, yes overall. Other religions, no. They were all Protestant, just the image we often have is that they were all English puritans, when a number of other Protestants were the initial settlers. In modern lanugage, we might say it was founded by different 'denominations', but of course that is not what they would have said.
Thanks for your response. I've been watching your lectures cause I was just interested in learning some things about the churches past. That just confuses me a little bit because I thought that the American colonies on the east coast were all founded by England.
There are no gaps. Native Americans have been silenced and misrepresented in your texts, but the people remember how horrid and despicable these witches behaved after being cleansed of caked on feces, mended from their ills, and feed. A people ( who had God's laws written on their hearts, though they had not heard the word) and never caused you any offense were Holocausted for a resource and land grab.
Perhaps your glasses are a little off sir, as I see no curve of the horizon. Now I don't mean to be snide by saying that, but with each day more people are coming to understand that scripture plainly sets out a flat Earth cosmological viewpoint. In addition to that, people are testing the flat Earth theory and proving it to themselves and thereby growing closer to the Father by way of understanding that we can only know his creation through his teaching, not through the myopic viewpoint of scientific wizardry.
