[Buddha-l] Dissent or Service?

Richard Hayes rhayes at unm.edu
Mon Oct 9 11:23:47 MDT 2006


On Monday 09 October 2006 10:51, Richard Hayes wrote:
 
> It's not clear to me what you are expecting.  Quakers were among those who
> opposed war with the native peoples who got to the Americas  before the
> Europeans. John Woolman and other Quakers made attempts to befriend the
> native Americans and to discourage other Christians from feeling justified
> in taking their ands away from them.

The early American Christians were more interested in depriving native 
Americans of their lands than of their ands.

I have a new keyboard, and it is not yet used to my fingers. Expect more 
typogaffical errors than usual from me in coming weejs.



-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico


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