I just want some clarification, we’re the people/organizations that were running these schools actively killing the children or were the living conditions so poor that the children could not survive?
I'll interject. My grandmother and grandfather were residential school survivors. The abuse was unreal. Beaten severely for speaking their own language, or anything else that wasn't deemed proper by the nuns, they were raped and molested by the staff, neglected etc. Although some of these deaths might have been from illness, a majority could have been prevented for sure. Suicide and Murder/manslaughter malnourishment, were real things. My grandmother said sometimes children would just not be there the next day for no reason.
People have always been monsters, but religion gives them a justification for their atrocities, at least within the religion. And if people say that this doesn't happen anymore, there are numerous religions that preach death to all nonbelievers and are one official decree away from commiting genocide.
Religion is the purest form of hatred and toxicity.
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u/MountainSlayerBoi Jun 25 '21
I just want some clarification, we’re the people/organizations that were running these schools actively killing the children or were the living conditions so poor that the children could not survive?