For all of those out there (including many people I know) who yearn evangelicals to bring back closer ties to the church in Rome, here is the latest 'gaffe' by the new Pope on his visit to Rome:
From BBC news:
"Indigenous leaders in Brazil have reacted angrily to Pope Benedict's comments that their predecessors had willingly converted to Christianity.
One Amazon Indian leader, Jecinaldo Satere Mawe, said the Pope's remarks had been arrogant and disrespectful.
Pope Benedict XVI told Latin American bishops in Brazil that American Indians had been "silently longing" to become Christians 500 years ago."
The Pope had said the Christianisation of the region had not involved an alienation of the pre-Colombian cultures. Pope Benedict also made no mention of the violent history that followed or the documented decimation of native cultures in favour of the Christian model Conquistadores and other Europeans colonisers."
This revision of history has to go right along side fundamentalists in America who paint rosy pictures of America's founding fathers, while neglecting the social injustices that occurred under their watch. Pope Benedict is supposed to be a learned scholar, so how can he actual believe what he is saying? And this begs the question, 'If he is soooo wrong about this view of history, what else is wrong about?'
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