Spanish and French explorers coming through parts of Texas and a few small colonies and missions hardly constitute Mexicans as indigenous to Texas. There was a presence I’ll admit. The real colonization is occurring before our eyes; only this time Americans have been selected to lose.
a win/ win situation comrade.
sheapdog:
I think perhaps you are missing the sarcasm in my post. The United states and its primary founders being Protestants are in many cases the first signs of Protestantism moving into unitariansm are deism, as were many of the founding founders, and the doctrine of manifest destiny, implicitly rooted in Calvinism, was used to justify the westward expansion of the United States. Yes, French and Spainish were here before the English got here and yes they founded colonies but I wonder where Alex’s criticism is of the principle of Manifest Destiny used by the U.S. policy makers to justify the expansion of the U.S. to the Pacific.
So in the context of what I wrote above and Alex’s post, one wonders what was the point of the Indian group calling for now Pope Francis to revoke the Papal statements from the 15th century which implicitly to me do not seem that differerent from the American principle of Manifest Destiny which is to me at least, rooted in Puritan Protestant christianity/Calvinism. Why did the Indians choose to ask the Pope of Rome to do this and not the leaders of Reformed Protestantism in say Geneva or somewhere in backwoods United States at the first whatever church in bubbaville MS, AL, etc.