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To: dleeper47

One of the chief reasons the Pilgrims didn’t starve is because the Indian Squanto took pity on them as fellow Christians and showed them how to survive. That was an act of pure altruism, something the free market doesn’t recognize and ultimately tries to beat out of us. Yes, Squanto was a Christian — Catholic, in fact, having been baptized by Spanish friars. Pilgrims didn’t bring the Gospel to “indian savages”; Catholic missionaries did. If the fine Calvinist pilgrims had known Squanto was Catholic, he’d have been lucky to have escaped with his life. And yes, the pilgrims would probably have starved and there’d be no football tomorrow.


4 posted on 11/26/2014 7:20:41 AM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus
If the fine Calvinist pilgrims had known Squanto was Catholic, he’d have been lucky to have escaped with his life. And yes, the pilgrims would probably have starved and there’d be no football tomorrow.

Just so we are clear, if the Catholics were in the majority or felt threatened, and Squanto was a Protestant, they would have probably killed him.

Doubt me???

The Killing of the Huguenots by the Catholic Church



If you are going to make an inflammatory statement, better make sure that you have checked your own history.
10 posted on 11/26/2014 8:24:50 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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