Eurocatholicism's racist saints?




What nonsense.

Would you canonise anyone from, for instance, Nazi Germany during the Nazi era, and who didn't actively oppose what the Nazis were doing?

This fella, Cardinal John Henry Newman, hailed from Britain, a white supremacist state during the white supremacist colonial era.

There are no saints there during that time, only resolute white supremacist sinners, excluding those who spoke up against it.

Typical eurocentric rubbish i'm afriad.  One can't expect anything less from an all-white papacy, a legacy of the white supremacist colonial era, who can't see the image of God in man due to the whites of their eyes.  And now we are supposed to recognise this fella as a saint?  And pray to him?  While he was donning cloth that might very well have been cut from textiles imported from India at low cost through forced cultivation of cash crops and shipped to Britain?

Yes, this guy may have done a lot of good.  But i'm sure the Nazis in their personal lives might have done lots of good too.

Yes, i'd like to see opposition to this statement by all those closet white supremacist 'catholics'.

I'm sorry, but if you want to globalise a white guy from the colonial era through his canonisation, you better be sure that he wasn't a part of the colonial movement, and should also be noted for his statements against it.  If not, he cannot be claimed to be a Man of God and sainted.  It just belittles the victims of such a state of affairs.


"True, to enslave is a horrible sin. But comparative good may come out of sin in this sinful world.  American slavery admits the introduction of more antagonistic good, than African despotism.  I had rather been a slave in the Holy Land, than a courtier of Xerxes, or a soldier of Zingis Khan." - John Henry Newman


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