Father Junipero Serra

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They haven’t torn down his statue yet.

When leftists want to tear down everything of ours so they can put up everything of theirs, they really do mean everything–including the past. Including our memory.

Down With Father Serra!

Father Serra, in their blind eyes, committed an unforgivable crime by teaching Native Americans to be Christians instead of pagans. Never mind that he gave them hope of forgiveness of sins and everlasting life–to say nothing of making it impossible for colonial authorities to deny that the natives were fully human. Christianity and slavery are incompatible. It may take time, but eventually Christ makes all His people free.

And all the leftids boo and hiss.

Because they want to do the opposite, and make all the people slaves.

Let’s face it–college campuses have to be made incredibly safe, and no member of any minority should ever have to see, hear, or read, or even be aware of, anything that might possibly offend him. As for members of the majority, well, who cares?

“Activists”–shorthand for “arrogant pinheads bullying poor schmucks who are too timid to resist”–at Stanford University have demanded that the Serra Mall be renamed. See, it’s named for Father Junipero Serra, a saint of the Catholic Church. And Father Serra’s crime, for which he must be tried and found guilty hundreds of years later, and cast into outer darkness, was…

Being a missionary. Father Serra planted churches and missions all over California, in the days when it was a Spanish colony, and taught Christianity to the natives.

Humongous and inordinate crime! To rob people of the blessings of paganism and spook worship, and thrust upon them the hope of eternal life! I mean, that is downright mean! Once they take his accursed and oppressive name off the mall, maybe they can start tearing it out of history textbooks, too.

Had enough yet, folks?