regard as a threat. In March 2018, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on a story in Sri Lanka where the “Buddhist Sinhalese majority torched Muslim homes and businesses in the island-nation's central hills near Kandy, a day after the government imposed a state of emergency to quell days of violence” (Neuman, 2018). ARAB NEWS reported that: The unrest – which has killed more than 250 people and left 140,000 others displaced – began last year in the western state of Rakhine, where nationalist Buddhists accuse the Rohingya Muslim community of illegally entering the country and encroaching on their land. The violence, on a smaller scale but still deadly, spread earlier this year to other parts of the country, fueling deepseeded prejudices against the Islamic minority and threatening Myanmar’s fragile transition to democracy.” (http://www.arabnews.com/news/462428) Earliest Violence: God’s Killing Fields Looking back on the recent history of Alaska, it appears that many of the problems of today are related to the attitude of the non-Native caregivers who came to the state in great numbers to “save” the Native people… Before the newcomers came to Alaska the Native people were not in need of salvation. For many centuries their cultural traditions and their knowledge had provided them with the skills to survive successfully in their own environment. The disintegrations started when the non-Native culture, totally foreign to the natural environment of Alaska, caused great disruption between the land and the Native people (Alaska Native Commission, 1994) An important strategy in the colonization and oppression of Indigenous Peoples has been the use of a violent, white God and religion. It is important to mention at this point that the discussion in this section is in no way intended to offend or dismiss the importance that religious beliefs may have for any individual or group. The intention of this section is only to provide evidence that violence pervades nearly every aspect of our lives. In his book, “The God Delusion,” Richard Dawkins (2006) examines the Christian God in all of his forms and asserts that the irrational belief in God and religion has inflicted terrible harm on society. God in the Old Testament says Dawkins, “is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a
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