Editorial: Terra nullius & Christofacist Bryan Fischer

By Brody Levesque (Bethesda, Maryland) FEB 8 | Somedays I wish hard for a reprieve from the insanity of the American culture and society, yearning to slip back across the border to my native Ontario soil and mingle with my countrymen, who by and large are considerably more rational, forgiving, and most of all filled with a sense of simple humanity that is now so lacking in the United States' population.

To Wit: Today comes this from the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer:

International legal scholars have always recognized that sovereign control of land is legitimately transferred in at least three ways: settlement, purchase, and conquest. Europeans have to this day a legitimate claim on American soil for all three of those reasons.

They established permanent settlements on the land, moving gradually from east to west, while Indian tribes remained relentlessly nomadic.

Much of the early territory in North American that came into possession of the Europeans came into their possession when the land was purchased from local tribes, Peter Minuit’s purchase of Manhattan being merely the first.

And the Europeans proved superior in battle, taking possession of contested lands through right of conquest. So in all respects, Europeans gained rightful and legal sovereign control of American soil.

But another factor has rarely been discussed, and that is the moral factor.

In the ancient tradition of the Hebrews, God made it clear to Abraham that the land of Canaan was promised to his descendants. But he told Abraham the transfer of land to his heirs could not happen for 400 years, for one simple reason: “[T]he iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete” (Gen. 15:16).

The Amorites, or Canaanite peoples, practiced one moral abomination after another, whether it was incest, adultery, sexual immorality, homosexuality, bestiality or child sacrifice, and God finally said “Enough!”

By the time he brought the nascent nation of Israel to the borders of the land flowing with milk and honey, he had already been patient with the native tribes for 400 years, waiting for them to come to the place of repentance for their socially and spiritually degrading practices.

His patience was not rewarded, and finally the day came when the sin had reached its full measure. The slop bucket was full, and it was time to empty it out. Israel under Joshua was God’s custodian to empty the bucket and start over.

The native American tribes at the time of the European settlement and founding of the United States were, virtually without exception, steeped in the basest forms of superstition, had been guilty of savagery in warfare for hundreds of years, and practiced the most debased forms of sexuality.

Sounds to me as though Fischer is invoking the doctrine of Terra nullius, and reading it (as was often done in the 18th and 19th centuries) to mean that "barbarous" people, who didn't cultivate the land or live according to civilised laws (effectively  those who were not 'Christian') had no right to the land on which they lived.

You see its ugly face thoughout the history of colonialism and the dispossession of native peoples, from the establishment of the Spanish and British colonies in the Americas to the extremist Zionist mantra of "the Arabs did nothing with the desert but we have made it bloom."

Incredible, absolutely incredible. If one extrapolates the meaning and emphasis of Fischer's vitriol, then reasonably, a Muslim, Jew, or Buddhist would also be prevented from owning real property as well.

But let's return to his first premise shall we? He continues:

The Lewis and Clark journals record the constant warfare between the nomadic Indian tribes on the frontier, and the implacable hostility of the Sioux Indians in particular.

The journals record the morally abhorrent practice of many native American chiefs, who offered their own wives to the Corps of Discovery for their twisted sexual pleasure. (Regrettably, many members of the Corps, Lewis and Clark excepted, took advantage of these offers and contracted numerous and debilitating sexually transmitted diseases as a result.)

The native American tribes ultimately resisted the appeal of Christian Europeans to leave behind their superstition and occult practices for the light of Christianity and civilization. They in the end resisted every attempt to “Christianize the Savages of the Wilderness,” to use George Washington’s phrase.

They rejected Washington’s direct counsel to the Delaware chiefs in 1779, “You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ.”

Thomas Jefferson three times signed legislation appropriating federal tax dollars for the evangelizing of the Native American tribes. It all came to nought, as one tribe after another rejected the offer of spiritual light and advanced civilization.

Missionaries were murdered in cold blood, including Marcus Whitman, who was tomahawked to death in his own house in 1848 by the Cayuse and Umatilla Indians in what became the Oregon Territory.

God explained to the nation of Israel that because of the “abomination(s)” of the indigenous Canaanite tribes, the land had become unclean and “vomited out its inhabitants (Lev. 18:25).”

Is this to say the same holds true for native American tribes today? In many respects, the answer is of course no. But in some senses, the answer is yes. Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.

The continued presence of native American superstition was on full display at the memorial service for the victims of the Tucson shooter, when the “invocation” (such as it was) was offered by a native American who sought inspiration from the “Seven Directions,” including “Father Sky” and “Mother Earth,” rather than the God of the Bible.

Here's what's scary to me as a journalist- this clown is given a voice on 215 plus U. S. radio stations/channels which according to the Arbitron organisation, which tracks mass marketing and media results, translates into roughly 2.4 million listeners daily to his programme. Add in readership to the American Family Association's website where the above excerpted material was published in addition to his airing of the same, and the numbers go up even higher.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre has labeled these people a hate group. If you are a reasonably intelligent and compassionate human being, you can read the above or listen if you dare, to this vile hatred this man spews cloaked in Christian superiority, and you'd be hard pressed NOT to agree with the SPLC.

Here's a fact and its backed up by empirical historic evidence-  More blood has been spilled in the name of Christianity over the past few centuries then all of the blood spilled by the communists, Nazis, and other regimes combined. Pretty sobering eh?

Look carefully at Fischer's words. This man leads the fight against anyone who does not adhere strictly to his very narrow theocratic thought pattern and ideology. 

I am rendered nauseous by this vile creature. This is the face of hate folks and its coming at you in the form of so-called "Christian Family values." Gays? Lesbians? Immigrants? Non-Whites? Trans folk and Bisexuals? Oh and lest I forget, Islamic believers? ALL are targets of Fischer and people just like him who demonise, marginalise, rewrite history, all in the name of this God of theirs.

In Canada, he'd be dragged into court and sued or the Queen's Counsel would charge him for a hate crime as freedom of speech and religion does have limits especially when practise of such defiles the humanity of persons who may not subscribe to your point of view and you go after them.

There are no "Christian Values" here people! There are no "Family Values" expressed here either! Wake the hell up folks!

You Americans have a pretty big problem that is causing a chasm in your society that is going to quite literally come back to bite you all in the ass if you can't find a way to silence this type of hate speech. This is not freedom of religion, this is despicable.