Re: Methodist Leaders Apologize for 1864 Massacre
lhellwi@interaccess.com
Tue, 30 Apr 1996 18:47:07 -0500 (CDT)
[ I am going to make this the next-to-last article approved in this thread
because the NATIVE-L list is designed for the passing on of information,
rather than discussion - and I can see that this topic has lots of poten-
tial for a protracted, and potentially very worthwhile, I might add, con-
versation. The NATCHAT mailing list is, however, open for this purpose,
so I would invite anyone who wants to continue to examine the issues
raised by this topic to carry on the discussion on that list. --Gary ]
Even though the Methodists didn't "order" or commit the massacre as
part of their church doctrine, the fact that they failed to repudiate
Chivington's actions (I believe he remained a Methodist minister after
the massacre) makes them complicit...sort of the same way that
ordinary Germans who looked the other way were complicit in the
Holocaust.
Lisa Stalnaker Hellwig