http://buchanan.org/blog/cultural-cleansing-of-christian-males-16094

The culture war against Christianity is picking up speed.

Last week came word Saint Louis University will remove a heroic-sized statue of Fr. Pierre-Jean De Smet S.J. from the front of Fusz Hall, where it has stood for 60 years.

The statue depicts Fr. De Smet holding aloft a crucifix as he ministers to two American Indians, one of whom is kneeling.

Historically, the statue is accurate. Fr. De Smet, "Blackrobe," as he was known, was a 19th-century missionary to Indian tribes who converted thousands. A friend of Sitting Bull, he spent his last years in St. Louis.

And as the mission of this Jesuit university is, presumably, to instruct the Catholic young in their faith and send them out into the world to bring the good news of Jesus Christ as Lord and savior to nonbelievers, what exactly is the problem here?

According to SLU Assistant Vice President for Communications Clayton Berry, "some faculty and staff ... raised questions about whether the sculpture is culturally sensitive." Senior Ryan McKinley is more specific: "The statue of De Smet depicts a history of colonialism, imperialism, racism and of Christian and white supremacy."

But if the founder of Christianity is the Son of God, then Christianity is a superior religion. What Ryan and those faculty and staff seem to be ashamed of, uncomfortable with, or unable to defend, is the truth for which Saint Louis University was supposed to stand.

But simply because they are cowardly, or politically correct, why should that statue be going into the SLU art museum? Why should not they themselves depart for another institution where their sensitivities will not be assaulted by artistic expressions of religious truths?

The message the SLU president should have given the dissenters is simple: We are a Catholic university that welcomes students and faculty not of the faith. But if you find our identity objectionable, then go somewhere else. We are not changing who we are.

Yet another missionary to the Indians is now becoming a figure of controversy. On his September visit to Washington, D.C., Pope Francis plans to canonize Fr. Junipero Serra, the Spanish Franciscan whom John Paul II beatified in 1988, who converted thousands of Indians in California in the 18th century, when it still belonged to Mexico.

Fr. Serra established nine missions up the coast, among them missions that would grow into San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Barbara and San Francisco.

Not only is Fr. Serra's name famous in California, his statue has stood since 1931 in the U.S. Capitol in one of two places set aside for the Golden State. The other statue representing California is that of President Ronald Reagan, unveiled in 2009, which replaced a statue of the preacher Thomas Starr King.

With the pope coming here to canonize Fr. Serra, the war drums have begun. It is said the priest accompanied Spanish soldiers who brutalized the Indians, and Fr. Serra helped to eradicate their religion and culture, replacing it with his own.

Now a move is afoot to remove Fr. Serra's statue.

According to the Religion New Service, "State Sen. Ricardo Lara, an openly gαy Los Angeles Democrat, wants to replace a bronze statue of Serra with a monument honoring Sally Ride, the nation's first female astronaut. Lara said Ride would become 'the first member of the LGBT community' to be honored in Statuary Hall."

Another drive is underway by feminists to remove the visage of Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace it with that of a woman, preferably a minority woman. Jackson, it is said, was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of the Cherokees in the Trail of Tears.

Yet, Jackson, slashed across the head by a British soldier in the last days of the Revolution for refusing to polish his boots, was also arguably the greatest soldier-statesman in American history.

Gen. Jackson led the 1815 defense of New Orleans against the British invasion force, and crushed the Indian marauders in Florida, drove out the Spanish governor, and cleared the path for annexation.

Twice elected president, Jackson is, with Jefferson, a father of the Democratic Party, and he and his proteges Sam Houston and James K. Polk virtually doubled the size of the United States.

One Internet poll advanced four leading candidates to replace Jackson: Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Wilma Mankiller and Harriet Tubman.

But when we look at who is currently on America's currency — George Washington on the $1 bill, Abe Lincoln on the $5, Hamilton on the $10, Jackson on the $20, Ulysses S. Grant on the $50, Ben Franklin on the $100 — do any of these women really compete in terms of historic achievement with what those great men accomplished?

Aren't we carrying this affirmative action business a bit too far?

What all these arguments are at bottom all about, however, is a deep divide among us over the question: Was the European Christian conquest of America, given its flaws and failings, on balance, a great and good thing. Or not?

I am appalled to see that a "Catholic" university is ashamed to honor this great missionary priest.  Two different Indian delegations made their way from the Pacific Northwest to find a Blackrobe to bring to them the "Great Prayer".  The first group of Indians died on the way.  The second group made it to St. Louis where they met Fr. DeSmet.  One of the most inspiring books you will ever read is The Life of Father DeSmet.  It should be required reading at St. Louis University as they are totally ignorant of not only their Faith but those heroes who sacrificed everything to bring it to the most remote areas of our country.  Due to their love for the Indians (who were considered by our government as less than human) there are tons of American Indians in heaven.  God bless Fr. DeSmet and all of the priests who ministered to them and those who stayed to live with them.  They were truly heroic in every way.  

In addition, the original place Jesuit Seminary where Fr. DeSmet actually lived is in Florissant, MO.  If you go there you will see that this property was sold to some Baptist group.  The mound where the bodies of these early Jesuit missionaries has been dug out and the bodies removed to other places where you will be very challenged to even find them or find a grave marker.  It's a disgrace, yes, but what really matters is that they are now all together in a place where there are no more trails of tears.  

Yet another example of the schizophrenia inherent in American Catholic "conservatives." He starts off decrying the removal of a statue depicting a Catholic priest preaching to the Indian savages, then, a few scant lines later, he swoons over the triumph of Freemason Andrew Jackson over the Spanish (which is to say, Catholic) governor of Florida.

This is why I'm no more interested in listening to Pat Buchanan than I am in listening to any other schizo. He may be occasionally right about isolated issues, but his overall philosophy is so pathologically divided that he is doomed to never understand the problem with any degree of clarity, nor to know how to solve it with any degree of sanity.

Agree. Even though Pat Buchanan is thankfully not a neocon, he still suffers from Americanism. As long as "conservatives" of the neocon variety remain in this specific error, they will sadly continue to support the very things/concepts which will lead to the near ethnic cleansing of the white European race.