And actually I heard there was a epidemic in Massachusetts "before" the Pilgrims arrived that wiped out a lot of Native Americans and that Massachusetts was probably one of the safest places they could of landed on the East Coast.
Indeed...and not just in Mass. Throughout North, Central and South America. Epidemics broght to this hemisphere by the Spanish and other Europeans.
So, by your logic, God essentially knocked off millions of native Americans (deeming them and their children unworthy of a chance of salvation, one wonders?) to make room for the "christians" to move into the essentially empty spaces.
BTW, your whole 98% quote is darn near stupid. First, beyond native Americas .. in both hemispheres...who survived the European brought epidemics, they still constituted a very large segment of the population of both continents.
As to how many of them were "Christian," there is certainly room for doubt, as natives often had to be forcibly converted (at least in Spanish territory). That aside, don't forget other people ...oh, like Slaves.
You know, those black people that Christian businessment kidnapped (admittedly with help of their fellows) from Africa and forcibly resettled here. Again, forced conversions....seems to me to go against the grain of your concept of "christianity" as a revealed faith...but heck, what do I know. In any event, there were enough black and Afro Americas here at the time of the founding of the nation that they had to be considered as less than human so that the South could be induced to sign-on to the Constitution.
Funny how Christians could count those Christians as less than human for the purposes of the vote, but fully Christian when it comes to phoney point about the European invation of the Western Hemisphere.
Hey, but it's DOC's religion, so what do I know.
I now understand why you avoid answering my questions.
