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Post-Imperialist Christendom: What Have We Done to Redeem Mistakes From the Past?

Musings

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“240” caption=“Ostriches in Namibia”]Ostriches in Namibia[/caption]

Mark Twain wrote in 1900:

I bring you the stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chou, Manchuria, South Africa [and] the Philippines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.
I have a few ideas … the first of which is http://www.develo.org.

Food for thought, anyhow … right?  At least we can’t bury our heads when we have the power to affect some type of change.  Or can we?