Aboriginals in Brazil deeply offended by Pope Benedict's recent statements on "Immaculate Genocide"

Regardless, this is no excuse for the genocide colonialism simply because the subject population has learned, (out of necessity) to live with the damage done to their particular cultures. 

The blending of religious and spiritual traditions upon conquest is nothing new nor limited to the Americas.  Alexander of Macedonia was accused by his men of doing just that.  Diaspora African spiritual traditions have to a degree been virtually ruined by enforced contact with European Christianity to the point were the deities subsituted by Catholic saints are still used despite the fact that everyone involved knows mentally, if not emotionally, that the European faces they pray to are not the African Orishas they front for.  That is the deepness of the colonialised mind.  The self is submerged in favour of the colonial master.

Did American Indians sacrifice humans?  Probably.  So did the many other early civilisations.  Christians still practise mock cannibalism during the sacrament.  Europe burned women at the stake out of religious piety, had China invaded under the pretext of "bringing culture" to the European Christians and raised punative human immolation as a legitimate symptom of inhumanity, how would Europe responded?

I concur with point B, but that does not in any way dismiss the wholesale crimminality that occured as has since the intial invasion.  But you are quite correct in your analysis of Southern American syncreticised spirituality.

Growing up in NYC one learns quite early about the European Holocaust, in fact it is the only Holocaust discussed, and many of us were struck by Elie Wiesel's proclimation that the concentration camps were proof that "God does not exist."

For a Jew to say this about this 6000 year old tradition is damming.  But given the circumstances, how could anyone not undergoing similar conditions question that statement?  His comments were bourne of his own personal experience.

I would prefer that such circumstances never appear again in the history of this planet.  But I believe that my dream, if one could call it that, will never come to fruition if the world as a whole does not begin to care about it's own survival.

Thank you all for reading. 

Do you understand that your argument is no better than the position put forth by H. Himmler during the Nuremburg Trials when he and teh rest of the Nazi's in the dock  claimed to be in actuality, Zionists.   In other words, despite the immense damage that was done in thier name at thier own hands, they were doing it all for the benefit of the European Jewish population.  I doubt if world Jewry agrees with that assessment.  Or the Homosexuals, Poles, Rom, Greeks, Russians, North Africans, Turks or developmentally disabled and dissendent Germans whose murders still do not recieve mention apart for the Semitic pogrom.  The United States called what you are defending "Manifest Destiny," Kipling was more honest, he simply called it what it is, European ethno-cultural superiority.

"But they want to keep their "cultural" habits when it is good for them,
like rape women, kill babies that they do not want, to murder anyone
they want with the excuse that it is part of their "culture". I think
that even cannibalism will be allowed regarding to their culture." 

Are you claiming that Western culture has never raped women, killed children, or murdered people wholsale as intrinsic parts of their respective cultures?  You are ignoring the records collected by the Spanish, French and British themselves on how brutally they regarded and treated American Aboriginals.  Examine Christopher Columbus' own diaries or his critic Father Las Casas who charged the Spanish Crown with Indigenous ethnocide.

You also must have missed the European tribal wars of WW1 and WW2, the European Holocaust and the Spanish Inquisition.  Cannibalism?  British Naval Law allowed for cannibalism in extreme cases and Catholics perform ritual cannibalisation of a representation of Jesus the Christ at religious services.  And if one reviews Vietnam, Algeria, the Congo, Aparthied South Africa, Rhodesia, East Timor, the former Eastern Bloc and Northern Ireland in search of that mythical Europocentric Utopia, you will find nothing but deceit, half-truths and massive amounts of propaganda.

No nation has a right to invade other countries and either enslave or exterminate the Indigenous population either morally or by way of international understandings that go back centuries before Europe could read and write.  As I said above, excuses for White power do nothing but prove that such a power exists by being denied by perpetrator and victim alike. 

"And c´mon, western culture is superior, because it created the
possibility of individuality. A man can stand against what he consider
not right because of it." 

You must be unaware of the fact that the originality you speak of is a direct result of European contact with North American Aboriginals.  In teh writings of Thomas Jefferson and especially  Benjamin Franklin, the concept of individual freedom and the right of dissent was learned from studying the then 6000 year old Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy which according to B. Franklin was the political basis for the United States Federal Government. 

Europe had no concept of the individual except among rare cases and even then only from the upper-classes.  To go against the socio-politcal grain was social suicide for the lucky and certain death or imprisonment for the usual unfortunate soul.  Freedom in Europe only existed for those who could afford it.

Also, you act as if the Brazilian government did the Aboriginals a favour by "giving" then tracts of territory that is rountinely violated in favour of mulitnational business concerns.  It was their land in th first place or are you forgetting about the invasion of the nation by Portugal and the barbaric importaion of Africans?  Where is the enlightenment you speak of in these cases, and since Brazil is modeled precisely on that Western paradigm, why is the Brazilian poor so expansive?  Why is the government in the position of making deals with gangs to maintain social order in the ghettoes?   

So, who's the savage? - The Angryindian