Comments on: ‘Identificational Repentance’ – repenting for the sins of our ancestors

By: donna brown

donna brown — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:49:48 +0000

On October 9, 2010 a group of Natives came to Lancaster Pa. to hear a group of Christians and Quakers, Mennonites, and Presbyterians acknowledge the events that took place here in Lancaster County when the Paxton Boy’s, a group of Militia who were affiliated with John Elder of the Paxton Presbyterian Church, mercilessly killed the Conestoga Natives. In gathering these 500 people in the 1st Presbyterian Church downtown, it was the 1st time many white people understood the history of the Natives in this country. We are currently doing a DVD and booklet about the ongoing work of educating our children about our Native American Holocaust. We used the heartfelt words of “I’m sorry” and “we regret” because we are sorry for all of the horrors that took place from those who called themselves “believers in Jesus Christ”. These events don’t reflect the nature of Jesus Christ or the God of the New Testament, as Jesus said, “the theif (Satan) comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I come to give you life more abundantly”. I pray that we as Christians can move into relationship with our Native people and recognize the pain of the past offenses and become true representatives of our loving God and Creator.

By: Sela

Sela — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:30:28 +0000

Really I see this as a pointless exercise none of you ever really can even understand the effects of your peoples hatred and homicidal evil has had on generations of say like American Indian people like myself and my family,right up to this day with my daughter and son as they look out at this reservation Pine Ridge here in South Dakota at the poverty and abject misery that people praising Jesus pushed us into the unwanted places for the unwanted people, but I can tell them and have a new generation that understands that even this was not enough for the children of god they needed to abuse my grand mother and their great grandmother had to be forced kidnapped taken to a The Christian Boarding and at 8 years old had to be beaten so severely for speaking in her language that even though she passed away when I was 7 I can still recall seeing the scars deep gaping tracks on her back and I could go on and on. So no I do not think Christians can comprehend how atrocious their collective sin truly was nor how deeply felt not even so much the mockers murderers and abusers are not as bad as you silent ones that say nothing now and said nothing then and the deniers that perpetuate the sins. No you can not repent what you could never grasp the size of.