[Gocamino] Matajudios????

[Hathor821 at aol.com]

Well said, Grant!!!!
 
Patricia de Miami
 
 
In a message dated 5/7/2009 7:50:52 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
hme347 at aol.com writes:

I agree  with almost everything you stated, Grant, except this part of your 
response.  Don't you think that you are trivializing "History" by failing 
to  acknowledge most historians' honorable intentions?  You make them sound  
like they all have ulterior motives and deceit as their motives in writing  
their accounts of the past.  



Most educated folks can  sense the difference between honest accounts of 
events and distortions of what  happened in the past.  Don't you think you are 
being somewhat cynical!  (Sincerely, but no phony Hugs!) Howard Mendes, NYC


Third. History  is all apologist. History is all revisionist. Nobody has a 
lock 
on “WHAT  REALLY HAPPENED”.




-----Original Message-----
From: Grant  Spangler <gaspangler at hotmail.com>
To: †GoCamino OakApple  <gocamino at oakapple.net>
Sent: Thu, 7 May 2009 1:51 am
Subject: Re:  [Gocamino] Matajudios????








My  My,

First, may I say, it's good to hear from Rosina, our long lost  matron 
d'chemin.

Next, it seems that whenever religion is mentioned,  the swords come out of 
their 
scabbards.

Third. History is all  apologist. History is all revisionist. Nobody has a 
lock 
on “WHAT REALLY  HAPPENED”.

I would, however, offer you to pay attention to what we can  currently 
observe. 
In realtime. Ponder today’s interaction of Muslim on  Muslim, Muslim on 
Jew, and 
Muslim on Christian. Not a pretty picture. No  apologies or explanations 
required. It’s rather ugly. I would venture  nothing much has chan
ged in the last 
500 years. People keep being  people; cultures keep doing what they do 
best, 
ethnocentrically viewing  the universe from their turf. I would surmise the 
myth 
is that ‘Everyone  lived in peace and harmony in ancient Spain’. Don’t 
believe 
it, not for a  moment, thankyouverymuch. Matamoros, Mataindios, Matajudios, 
Matafrancos,  Mataperros, Mataratos, Matarepublicos, Matayomama. Whole 
lotta mata 
goin'  on. Is this to say the Church was justified in it’s actions? No way. 
Nor  
the Crown. Nor anybody else on the playing field. The Spanish Inquisition  
was a 
textbook Machiavellian power struggle. I get yer stuff cuz God sez.  Top 
that. 
Was Isabel the perfect monarch? No, but she did a damn fine job  for the 
cards 
she was dealt. I’d reelect her.  

The  Generalissimo Franco tried desperately to unify Spain with his 
heavy-handed  
techniques. That lasted until 1975. Then the demi-kingdoms once again  
split and 
the languages and cultures once again blossomed. Basque, Galego,  Catalá, 
Asturianu, Extremeño, and all the others were patently illegal.  Could not 
be 
spoken, written, or even mentioned. Spain is, and really  always has been, 
a 
disparate loosely consolidated group of kingdoms and  cultures. Don’t ya 
just 
love it? It’s dynamic. It’s culture. It’s Spain.  It’s Humanity. It’s US.

Et Viola. Le diatribe d'Grant.


Sane  Camino,

Grant

Grant  Spangler
GASpangler at hotmail.com
http://www.ElCaminoSantiago.com
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