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Christian
		Crimes against Humanity

    quote: "But
		those mine enemies, which would not that I should
reign over
		them, bring hither, and slay them before me."
   
		– Luke 19.27 *



    quote: "All
		sects of heretics are condemned and various
punishments are
		appointed for them and their accomplices."
   
		--Pope Alexander IV (1254-61)



   
		quote: Catholic extermination camps
   
		Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War
II
		were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the
		years
1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous extermination
		camps, run by
Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante
		Paveliç, a practicing
Catholic and regular visitor to the
		then pope. There were even
concentration camps exclusively for
		children! In these camps - the
most notorious was Jasenovac,
		headed by a Franciscan friar -
orthodox-Christian Serbians (and
		a substantial number of Jews) were
murdered. Like the Nazis the
		Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in
kilns, alive (the Nazis
		had victims gassed first). But most of the
victims were simply
		stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of
them being
		estimated between 300,000 and 600,000, in a rather tiny
country.
		Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities
were
		appalling enough to induce bystanders of the
		Nazi
"Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain
		about them to Hitler
(who did not listen). The pope knew about
		these events and did
    nothing to prevent them.
		[MV] 



    quote: Catholic terror in
		Vietnam
    In 1954 Vietnamese freedom fighters;
		the Viet Minh; - had finally
defeated the French colonial
		government in North Vietnam, which by
then had been supported by
		U.S. funds amounting to more than $2
billion. Although the
		victorious assured religious freedom to all
(most non-Buddhist
		Vietnamese were Catholics), due to huge
anticommunist propaganda
		campaigns many Catholics fled to the South.
With the help of
		Catholic lobbies in Washington and Cardinal Spellman,
the
		Vatican's spokesman in U.S. politics, who later on would call
		the
U.S. forces in Vietnam "Soldiers of Christ", a
		scheme was concocted to
prevent democratic elections which could
		have brought the communist
Viet Minh to power in the South as
		well, and the fanatic Catholic Ngo
Dinh Diem was made president
		of South Vietnam. [MW16ff]
    Diem saw to it
		that U.S. aid, food, technical and general
assistance was given
		to Catholics alone, Buddhist individuals and
villages were
		ignored or had to pay for the food aids which were given
to
		Catholics for free. The only religious denomination to be
		supported
was Roman Catholicism. The Vietnamese McCarthyism
		turned even more
vicious than its American counterpart. By 1956
		Diem promulgated a
presidential order which read:

   
		"Individuals considered dangerous to the national defense
		and
common security may be confined by executive order, to a
		concentration
camp."

    Supposedly
		to fight communism, thousands of Buddhist protesters
and monks
		were imprisoned in "detention camps." Out of protest
		dozens
of Buddhist teachers - male and female - and monks poured
		gasoline
over themselves and burned themselves. (Note that
		Buddhists burned
themselves: in comparison Christians tend to
		burn others). Meanwhile
some of the prison camps, which in the
		meantime were filled with
Protestant and even Catholic
		protesters as well, had turned into
no-nonsense death camps. It
		is estimated that during this period of
terror (1955-1960) at
		least 24,000 were wounded - ; mostly in street
riots ; - 80,000
		people were executed, 275,000 had been detained or
tortured, and
		about 500,000 were sent to concentration or detention
camps.
		[MW76-89].
    To support this kind of government
		in the next decade thousands of
American GI's lost their life.
		



    quote: Rwanda Massacres
   
		In 1994 in the small African country of Rwanda in just a few
months
		several hundred thousand civilians were butchered, apparently
		a
conflict of the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
   
		For quite some time I heard only rumors about Catholic
		clergy
actively involved in the 1994 Rwanda massacres. Odd
		denials of
involvement were printed in Catholic church journals,
		before even
anybody had openly accused members of the
		church.
    Then, 10/10/96, in the newscast of S2
		Aktuell, Germany - a station
not at all critical to Christianity
		- the following was stated:

    "Anglican
		as well as Catholic priests and nuns are suspect of
having
		actively participated in murders. Especially the conduct of
		a
certain Catholic priest has been occupying the public mind in
		Rwanda's
capital Kigali for months. He was minister of the
		church of the Holy
Family and allegedly murdered Tutsis in the
		most brutal manner. He is
reported to have accompanied marauding
		Hutu militia with a gun in his
cowl. In fact there has been a
		bloody slaughter of Tutsis seeking
shelter in his parish. Even
		two years after the massacres many
Catholics refuse to set foot
		on the threshold of their church, because
to them the
		participation of a certain part of the clergy in the
slaughter
		is well established. There is almost no church in Rwanda
that
		has not seen refugees - women, children, old - being
		brutally
butchered facing the crucifix.
   
		According to eyewitnesses clergymen gave away hiding Tutsis
		and
turned them over to the machetes of the Hutu militia.
   
		In connection with these events again and again two
		Benedictine
nuns are mentioned, both of whom have fled into a
		Belgian monastery in
the meantime to avoid prosecution.
		According to survivors one of them
called the
   
		Hutu killers and led them to several thousand people who had
sought
		shelter in her monastery. By force the doomed were driven out
of
		the churchyard and were murdered in the presence of the nun
		right
in front of the gate. The other one is also reported to
		have directly
cooperated with the murderers of the Hutu militia.
		In her case again
witnesses report that she watched the
		slaughtering of people in cold
blood and without showing
		response. She is even accused of having
procured some petrol
		used by the killers to set on
    fire and burn
		their victims alive..." [S2]

    More
		recently the BBC aired:

    Priests get death
		sentence for Rwandan genocide
    BBC NEWS April
		19, 1998

    A court in Rwanda has sentenced
		two Roman Catholic priests to
death for their role in the
		genocide of 1994, in which up to a million
Tutsis and moderate
		Hutus were killed. Pope John Paul said the priests
must be made
		to account for their actions. Different sections of the
Rwandan
		church have been widely accused of playing an active role in
the
		genocide of 1994...



A Large dated compilation of
		Christian Crimes since its advent:

As soon as Christianity
		became legal in the Roman Empire by imperial
edict (315), more
		and more pagan temples were destroyed by Christian
mob. Pagan
		priests were killed.

Between 315 and 6th century thousands
		of pagan believers were slain.

		Examples of destroyed
		Temples: the Sanctuary of Aesculap in Aegaea,
the Temple of
		Aphrodite in Golgatha, Aphaka in Lebanon, the
		Heliopolis.

Christian priests such as Mark of Arethusa or
		Cyrill of Heliopolis
were famous as "temple destroyer."
		[DA468]

Pagan services became punishable by death in 356.
		[DA468]

Christian Emperor Theodosius (408-450) even had
		children executed,
because they had been playing with remains of
		pagan statues. [DA469]
According to Christian chroniclers he
		"followed meticulously all
Christian teachings..."

In
		6th century pagans were declared void of all rights.

In the
		early fourth century the philosopher Sopatros was executed
		on
demand of Christian authorities. [DA466]

		The world
		famous female philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria was torn to
pieces
		with glass fragments by a hysterical Christian mob led by
		a
Christian minister named Peter, in a church, in
		415.
[DO19-25]

Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500
		Saxons, unwilling to
convert to Christianity, beheaded.
		[DO30]

Peasants of Steding (Germany) unwilling to pay
		suffocating church
taxes: between 5,000 and 11,000 men, women
		and children slain
5/27/1234 near Altenesch/Germany.
		[WW223]

15th century Poland: 1019 churches and 17987
		villages plundered by
Knights of the Order. Number of victims
		unknown. [DO30]

16th and 17th century Ireland. English
		troops "pacified and civilized"
Ireland, where only
		Gaelic "wild Irish", "unreasonable beasts
		lived
without any knowledge of God or good manners, in common of
		their
goods, cattle, women, children and every other thing."
		One of the more
successful soldiers, a certain Humphrey Gilbert,
		half-brother of Sir
Walter Raleigh, ordered that "the
		heddes of all those (of what sort
soever thei were) which were
		killed in the daie, should be cutte off
from their bodies... and
		should bee laied on the ground by eche side
of the waie",
		which effort to civilize the Irish indeed caused "greate
terrour
		to the people when thei sawe the heddes of their dedde
fathers,
		brothers, children, kinsfolke, and freinds on the grounde".
Tens
		of thousands of Gaelic Irish fell victim to the carnage. [SH99,
		225]

First Crusade: 1095 on command of pope Urban II.
		[WW11-41]

Semlin/Hungary 6/24/96 thousands slain.
		Wieselburg/Hungary 6/12/96
thousands. [WW23]

9/9/96-9/26/96
		Nikaia, Xerigordon (then Turkish), thousands
respectively.
		[WW25-27]

Until January 1098 a total of 40 capital cities
		and 200 castles
conquered (number of slain unknown)
		[WW30]

After 6/3/98 Antiochia (then Turkish) conquered,
		between 10,000 and
60,000 slain. 6/28/98 100,000 Turks (incl.
		women and children) killed.
[WW32-35]
Here the Christians
		"did no other harm to the women found in [the
enemy's]
		tents - save that they ran their lances through their
bellies,"
		according to Christian chronicler Fulcher of Chartres.
		[EC60]

Marra (Maraat an-numan) 12/11/98 thousands killed.
		Because of the
subsequent famine "the already stinking
		corpses of the enemies were
eaten by the Christians" said
		chronicler Albert Aquensis. [WW36]

Jerusalem conquered
		7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (Jewish,
Muslim, men, women,
		children). [WW37-40]
In the words of one witness: "there
		[in front of Solomon's temple] was
such a carnage that our
		people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of
our foes",
		and after that "happily and crying for joy our people
marched
		to our Saviour's tomb, to honour it and to pay off our debt
		of
gratitude."

The Archbishop of Tyre, eye-witness,
		wrote: "It was impossible to look
upon the vast numbers of
		the slain without horror; everywhere lay
fragments of human
		bodies, and the very ground was covered with the
blood of the
		slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless bodies
and
		mutilated limbs strewn in all directions that roused the horror
		of
all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful was it to gaze
		upon the
victors themselves, dripping with blood from head to
		foot, an ominous
sight which brought terror to all who met them.
		It is reported that
within the Temple enclosure alone about ten
		thousand infidels
perished." [TG79]

Christian
		chronicler Eckehard of Aura noted that "even the
		following
summer in all of Palestine the air was polluted by the
		stench of
decomposition". One million victims of the first
		crusade alone. [WW41]

Battle of Askalon, 8/12/1099. 200,000 heathens slaughtered "in the
name of Our Lord Jesus
		Christ". [WW45]

Fourth crusade: 4/12/1204 Constantinople sacked, number of victims
unknown, numerous
		thousands, many of them Christian. [WW141-148]

Rest of
		Crusades in less detail: until the fall of Akkon 1291 probably
20
		million victims (in the Holy land and Arab/Turkish areas
		alone).
[WW224]

Already in 385 C.E. the first Christians,
		the Spanish Priscillianus
and six followers, were beheaded for
		heresy in Trier/Germany [DO26]

Manichaean heresy: a
		crypto-Christian sect decent enough to practice
birth control
		(and thus not as irresponsible as faithful Catholics)
was
		exterminated in huge campaigns all over the Roman empire
		between
372 C.E. and 444 C.E. Numerous thousands of victims.
		[NC]

Albigensians: the first Crusade intended to slay other
		Christians. [DO29]
The Albigensians (Cathars) viewed themselves
		as good Christians, but
would not accept Roman Catholic rule,
		and taxes, and prohibition of
birth control. [NC]
Begin of
		violence: on command of pope Innocent III (the greatest
single
		mass murderer prior to the Nazi era) in 1209. Beziérs
		(today
France) 7/22/1209 destroyed, all the inhabitants were
		slaughtered.
Number of victims (including Catholics refusing to
		turn over their heretic
neighbors and friends) estimated between
		20,000-70,000. [WW179-181]
Carcassonne 8/15/1209, thousands
		slain. Other cities followed. [WW181]

Subsequent 20 years of
		war until nearly all Cathars (probably half the
population of
		the Languedoc, today southern France) were
		exterminated.
[WW183]

After the war ended (1229) the
		Inquisition was founded 1232 to search
and destroy
		surviving/hiding heretics. Last Cathars burned at the
stake
		1324.
[WW183]

Estimated one million victims (Cathar
		heresy alone), [WW183]

Other heresies: Waldensians,
		Paulikians, Runcarians, Josephites, and
many others. Most of
		these sects exterminated, (I believe some
Waldensians live
		today, yet they had to endure 600 years of
persecution) I
		estimate at least hundred thousand victims (including
the
		Spanish inquisition but excluding victims in the New
		World).

Spanish Inquisitor Torquemada, a former Dominican
		friar, allegedly was
responsible for 10,220 burnings.
		[DO28]

John Huss, a critic of papal infallibility and
		indulgences, was burned
at the stake in 1415.
		[LI475-522]

Michael Sattler, leader of a baptist community,
		was burned at the
stake in Rottenburg, Germany, May 20, 1527.
		Several days later his
wife and other follwers were also
		executed. [KM]

University professor B.Hubmaier burned at the
		stake 1538 in Vienna. [DO59]


Giordano Bruno, Dominican
		monk, after having been incarcerated for
seven years, was burned
		at the stake for heresy on the Campo dei Fiori
(Rome) on
		2/17/1600.

Thomas Aikenhead, a twenty-year-old scottish
		student of Edinburgh
University, was hanged for atheism and
		blasphemy.

>From the beginning of Christianity to 1484
		probably more than several
thousand.

In the era of witch
		hunting (1484-1750) according to modern scholars
several hundred
		thousand (about 80% female) burned at the stake or
		hanged.
[WV]

15th century: Crusades against Hussites,
		thousands slain. [DO30]

1538 pope Paul III declared Crusade
		against apostate England and all
English as slaves of Church
		(fortunately had not power to go into
action). [DO31]

1568
		Spanish Inquisition Tribunal ordered extermination of 3
		million
rebels in (then Spanish) Netherlands. [DO31]
Between
		5000 and 6000 Protestants were drowned by Spanish Catholic
Troops,
		"a disaster the burghers of Emden first realized when
		several
thousand broad-brimmed Dutch hats floated by."
		[SH216]

1572 In France about 20,000 Huguenots were killed on
		command of pope
Pius V. Until 17th century 200,000 flee.
		[DO31]

17th century: Catholics slay Gaspard de Coligny, a
		Protestant leader.
After murdering him, the Catholic mob
		mutilated his body, "cutting off
his head, his hands, and
		his genitals... and then dumped him into the
river [...but]
		then, deciding that it was not worthy of being food for
the
		fish, they hauled it out again [... and] dragged what was left
		...
to the gallows of Montfaulcon, 'to be meat and carrion for
		maggots and
crows'." [SH191]

17th century: Catholics
		sack the city of Magdeburg/Germany: roughly
30,000 Protestants
		were slain. "In a single church fifty women were
found
		beheaded," reported poet Friedrich Schiller, "and infants
		still
sucking the breasts of their lifeless mothers."
		[SH191]

17th century 30 years' war (Catholic vs.
		Protestant): at least 40% of
population decimated, mostly in
		Germany. [DO31-32]

Already in the 4th and 5th centuries
		synagogues were burned by
Christians.Number of Jews slain
		unknown.

In the middle of the fourth century the first
		synagogue was destroyed
on command of bishop Innocentius of
		Dertona in Northern Italy. The
first synagogue known to have
		been burned down was near the river
Euphrat, on command of the
		bishop of Kallinikon in the year 388. [DA450]

		694 17.
		Council of Toledo: Jews were enslaved, their property
confiscated,
		and their children forcibly baptized. [DA454]

1010 The
		Bishop of Limoges (France) had the cities' Jews, who would
not
		convert to Christianity, expelled or killed. [DA453]

1096
		First Crusade: Thousands of Jews slaughtered, maybe 12.000
		total.
Places: Worms 5/18/1096, Mainz 5/27/1096 (1100 persons),
		Cologne,
Neuss, Altenahr, Wevelinghoven, Xanten, Moers,
		Dortmund, Kerpen,
Trier, Metz, Regensburg, Prag and others (All
		locations Germany except
Metz/France, Prag/Czech) [EJ]

1147
		Second Crusade: Several hundred Jews were slain in Ham,
		Sully,
Carentan, and Rameru (all locations in France).
		[WW57]

1189/90 Third Crusade: English Jewish communities
		sacked. [DO40]

1235, Fulda/Germany: 34 Jewish men and women
		slain. [DO41]

1257, 1267: Jewish communities of London,
		Canterbury, Northampton,
Lincoln, Cambridge, and others
		exterminated. [DO41]

1290 Bohemia (Poland) allegedly 10,000
		Jews killed. [DO41]

1337 Starting in Deggendorf/Germany a
		Jew-killing craze reaches 51
towns in Bavaria, Austria, Poland.
		[DO41]

1348 All Jews of Basel/Switzerland and
		Strasbourg/France (two
thousand) burned. [DO41]

1349 In
		more than 350 towns in Germany all Jews murdered, mostly
burned
		alive (in this one year more Jews were killed than Christians
in
		200 years of ancient Roman persecution of Christians). [DO42]

		1389
		In Prag 3,000 Jews were slaughtered. [DO42]

1391 Seville's
		Jews killed (Archbishop Martinez leading). 4,000 were
slain,
		25,000 sold as slaves. [DA454] Their identification was made
easy
		by the brightly colored "badges of shame" that all Jews
		above the
age of ten had been forced to wear.

1492 In the
		year Columbus set sail to conquer a New World, more than
150,000
		Jews were expelled from Spain, many died on their way:
		6/30/1492.
[MM470-476]

1648 Chmielnitzki massacres: In
		Poland about 200,000 Jews were slain.
[DO43]

Beginning
		with Columbus (a former slave trader and would-be Holy
Crusader)
		the conquest of the New World began, as usual understood as
a
		means to propagate Christianity.

Within hours of landfall on
		the first inhabited island he encountered
in the Caribbean,
		Columbus seized and carried off six native people
who, he said,
		"ought to be good servants ... [and] would easily be
made
		Christians, because it seemed to me that they belonged to
		no
religion." [SH200]
While Columbus described the
		Indians as "idolators" and "slaves, as
many as
		[the Crown] shall order," his pal Michele de Cuneo,
		Italian
nobleman, referred to the natives as "beasts"
		because "they eat when
they are hungry," and made love
		"openly whenever they feel like it."
[SH204-205]

On
		every island he set foot on, Columbus planted a cross, "making
		the
declarations that are required" - the requerimiento -
		to claim the
ownership for his Catholic patrons in Spain. And
		"nobody objected." If
the Indians refused or delayed
		their acceptance (or understanding),
the requerimiento
		continued:

"I certify to you that, with the help of
		God, we shall powerfully
enter in your country and shall make
		war against you ... and shall
subject you to the yoke and
		obedience of the Church ... and shall do
you all mischief that
		we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse
to receive
		their lord and resist and contradict him." [SH66]


Likewise
		in the words of John Winthrop, first governor of
Massachusetts
		Bay Colony: "justifieinge the undertakeres of the
intended
		Plantation in New England ... to carry the Gospell into those
parts
		of the world, ... and to raise a Bulworke against the kingdome
of
		the Ante-Christ." [SH235]

In average two thirds of the
		native population were killed by
colonist-imported smallpox
		before violence began. This was a great
sign of "the
		marvelous goodness and providence of God" to the
Christians
		of course, e.g. the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony
		wrote in 1634, as "for the natives, they are near all dead
		of
the smallpox, so as the Lord hath cleared our title to what
		we
possess." [SH109,238]

On Hispaniola alone, on
		Columbus visits, the native population
(Arawak), a rather
		harmless and happy people living on an island of
abundant
		natural resources, a literal paradise, soon mourned 50,000
dead.
		[SH204]

The surviving Indians fell victim to rape, murder,
		enslavement and
Spanish raids.
As one of the culprits wrote:
		"So many Indians died that they could
not be counted, all
		through the land the Indians lay dead everywhere.
The stench was
		very great and pestiferous." [SH69]

The Indian chief
		Hatuey fled with his people but was captured and
burned alive.
		As "they were tying him to the stake a Franciscan friar
urged
		him to take Jesus to his heart so that his soul might go to
heaven,
		rather than descend into hell. Hatuey replied that if heaven
was
		where the Christians went, he would rather go to hell."
		[SH70]

What happened to his people was described by an
		eyewitness:
"The Spaniards found pleasure in inventing all
		kinds of odd cruelties
... They built a long gibbet, long enough
		for the toes to touch the
ground to prevent strangling, and
		hanged thirteen [natives] at a time
in honor of Christ Our
		Saviour and the twelve Apostles... then, straw
was wrapped
		around their torn bodies and they were burned alive."
		[SH72]
Or, on another occasion:
"The Spaniards cut off
		the arm of one, the leg or hip of another, and
from some their
		heads at one stroke, like butchers cutting up beef and
mutton
		for market. Six hundred, including the cacique, were thus
		slain
like brute beasts...Vasco [de Balboa] ordered forty of
		them to be torn
to pieces by dogs." [SH83]

The
		"island's population of about eight million people at the time
		of
Columbus's arrival in 1492 already had declined by a third to
		a half
before the year 1496 was out." Eventually all the
		island's natives
were exterminated, so the Spaniards were
		"forced" to import slaves
from other caribbean
		islands, who soon suffered the same fate. Thus
"the
		Caribbean's millions of native people [were] thereby
		effectively
liquidated in barely a quarter of a century".
		[SH72-73] "In less than
the normal lifetime of a single
		human being, an entire culture of
millions of people, thousands
		of years resident in their homeland, had
been exterminated."
		[SH75]

"And then the Spanish turned their attention to
		the mainland of Mexico
and Central America. The slaughter had
		barely begun. The exquisite
city of Tenochtitlán [Mexico
		city] was next." [SH75]

Cortez, Pizarro, De Soto and
		hundreds of other Spanish conquistadors
likewise sacked southern
		and mesoamerican civilizations in the name of
Christ (De Soto
		also sacked Florida).

"When the 16th century ended,
		some 200,000 Spaniards had moved to the
Americas. By that time
		probably more than 60,000,000 natives were dead."
[SH95]

Although
		none of the settlers would have survived winter without
native
		help, they soon set out to expel and exterminate the
		Indians.
Warfare among (north American) Indians was rather
		harmless, in
comparison to European standards, and was meant to
		avenge insults
rather than conquer land. In the words of some of
		the pilgrim fathers:
"Their Warres are farre less
		bloudy...", so that there usually was "no
great
		slawter of nether side". Indeed, "they might fight seven
		yeares
and not kill seven men." What is more, the Indians
		usually spared
women and children. [SH111]

In the spring
		of 1612 some English colonists found life among the
(generally
		friendly and generous) natives attractive enough to leave
Jamestown
		- "being idell ... did runne away unto the Indyans," -
		to
live among them (that probably solved a sex
		problem).
"Governor Thomas Dale had them hunted down and
		executed: 'Some he
apointed (sic) to be hanged Some burned Some
		to be broken upon wheles,
others to be staked and some shott to
		deathe'." [SH105] Of course
these elegant measures were
		restricted for fellow Englishmen: "This
was the treatment
		for those who wished to act like Indians. For those
who had
		no
choice in the matter, because they were the native people of
		Virginia"
methods were different: "when an Indian was
		accused by an Englishman
of stealing a cup and failing to return
		it, the English response was
to attack the natives in force,
		burning the entire community" down.
[SH105]

On the
		territory that is now Massachusetts the founding fathers of
		the
colonies were committing genocide, in what has become known
		as the
"Peqout War." The killers were New England
		Puritan Christians,
refugees from persecution in their own home
		country England.

When however, a dead colonist was found,
		apparently killed by
Narragansett Indians, the Puritan colonists
		wanted revenge. Despite
the Indian chief's pledge they
		attacked.
Somehow they seem to have lost the idea of what they
		were after,
because when they were greeted by Pequot Indians
		(long-time foes of
the Narragansetts) the troops nevertheless
		made war on the Pequots and
burned their villages.
The
		puritan commander-in-charge John Mason after one massacre
		wrote:
"And indeed such a dreadful Terror did the Almighty
		let fall upon
their Spirits, that they would fly from us and run
		into the very
Flames, where many of them perished ... God was
		above them, who
laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his
		People to Scorn, making
them as a fiery Oven ... Thus did the
		Lord judge among the Heathen,
filling the Place with dead
		Bodies": men, women, children. [SH113-114]

So "the
		Lord was pleased to smite our Enemies in the hinder Parts, and
to
		give us their land for an inheritance". [SH111].

Because
		of his readers' assumed knowledge of Deuteronomy, there was no
need
		for Mason to quote the words that immediately follow:
"Thou
		shalt save alive nothing that breatheth. But thou shalt
		utterly
destroy them..." (Deut 20)

Mason's comrade
		Underhill recalled how "great and doleful was the
bloody
		sight to the view of the young soldiers" yet reassured
		his
readers that "sometimes the Scripture declareth women
		and children
must perish with their parents".
		[SH114]

Other Indians were killed in successful plots of
		poisoning. The
colonists even had dogs especially trained to
		kill Indians and to
devour children from their mothers breasts,
		in the colonists' own
words: "blood Hounds to draw after
		them, and Mastives to seaze them."
(This was inspired by
		Spanish methods of the time)
In this way they continued until
		the extermination of the Pequots was
near. [SH107-119]

The
		surviving handful of Indians "were parceled out to live
		in
servitude. John Endicott and his pastor wrote to the governor
		asking
for 'a share' of the captives, specifically 'a young
		woman or girle
and a boy if you thinke good'."
		[SH115]

Other tribes were to follow the same path.

Comment
		the Christian exterminators: "God's Will, which will at
		last
give us cause to say: How Great is His Goodness! and How
		Great is his
Beauty!"
"Thus doth the Lord Jesus
		make them to bow before him, and to lick the
Dust!"
		[TA]

Like today, lying was morally acceptable to Christians
		then. "Peace
treaties were signed with every intention to
		violate them: when the
Indians 'grow secure uppon (sic) the
		treatie', advised the Council of
State in Virginia, 'we shall
		have the better Advantage both to
surprise them, & cutt
		downe theire Corne'." [SH106]

In 1624 sixty heavily
		armed Englishmen cut down 800 defenseless Indian
men, women and
		children. [SH107]

In a single massacre in "King
		Philip's War" of 1675 and 1676 some "600
Indians were
		destroyed. A delighted Cotton Mather, revered pastor of
the
		Second Church in Boston, later referred to the slaughter as
		a
'barbeque'." [SH115]