Christians Murdered Indians

Even in the initial stages of contact between European Christians and

Native Indian people the stage was set for ethnocentrism, and the

attitude towards the Indians was that of Christian superiority. The

Indians were read a proclamation in Spanish which they had no hope of

understanding, they had no hope of understanding the death sentence they

were being read, and it went something like this:

"We ask and require you to acknowledge the church as the ruler and

superior of the whole world and the high priest called pope and in his

name the king of Spain as lords of this land. If you submit we shall

receive you in all love and charity and shall leave you, your wives and

children and your lands free without servitude, but if you do not submit

we shall powerfully enter into your country and shall make war against

you, we shall take you and your wives and your children and shall make

slaves of them and we shall take away your goods and shall do you all

the harm and damage we can."

2000 years ago we were all tribal.

Then came the missionaries with their fucking bible.

1492 began the termination

The holocaust of our Indian nations

Yeah, with Christian love and a moral authority

They killed our medicine men and stole our country

I never claimed this shit was poetry

It's just the fucking lies of Christianity

You will pray to the lord and get down on your knees

Here's a cross for your back and the coughing disease

Though you helped us survive we will laugh while you bleed

Then deny what we did, write our own history

We will kidnap your children and cut off their hair

Silence their language and outlaw their prayers

Beat them blind until they believe

In the blood of Jesus Christ our king

Christians murdered Indians

Columbus murdered children and now we have a holiday

Still you want to deny your history

Look to the sky for your god to justify

As you commit cultural genocide

Christians came and the natives they did hang

13 at a time for Jesus and his gang

We are the ones you had to dehumanize

So your murder and greed could be justified

The belly of the church is full

With the blood of all those heathen fools

Who would not receive the gift of Christ?

So we burned them as a sacrifice

To our baby killing god above

To our mother church and all her love

We will steal their gods and subjugate

Those who don't believe we'll ahnilate

"The Spaniards made bets as to who would slit a man in two or cut of

his head with one blow. They tore babies from their mother's breast by

their feet and dashed their head against the rocks. They hanged Indians

by thirteen in honor and reverence for their redeemer and their twelve

apostles. They put wood underneath and with fire burned the Indians

alive."

Christians murdered Indians

We believe in the earth, the sky and dreams

The universe and the creator who gave us these

The sacred gift of life and human beings

That makes you perpetrate the hate to ahnilate

So here I am the savage civilized

Voice of the dead and my ancestor's cries

And like the ghosts of this land you can't erase

I see blood on the hands of the master race.

500 years of manifest destiny

500 years of resistance to the enemy

You have faith in the rivers, the mountains, the trees

We've a murdering god to replace all of these

With the blood of forgiveness you too can be free

Or the wrath of Jehovah you're sure to receive

We will baptize you with the blood of the lamb

With the sword and the gospel we will conquer your land

You will join our church and be glad to be saved

Or we'll slaughter your children and your women we'll rape.

Christians murdered Indians

I see blood on the hands of the master race.