Purification or Mass Murder ?

Here is some mind-numbing drivel from the Pope in his recent opening address for the Latin America and Caribbean 'Aparecida' Conference

The entire text can be found here but here is an excerpt where he talks about the "encounter" between Christians and the pre-Columbus religions

"Yet what did the acceptance of the Christian faith mean for the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean? For them, it meant knowing and welcoming Christ, the unknown God whom their ancestors were seeking, without realizing it, in their rich religious traditions. Christ is the Saviour for whom they were silently longing. It also meant that they received, in the waters of Baptism, the divine life that made them children of God by adoption; moreover, they received the Holy Spirit who came to make their cultures fruitful, purifying them and developing the numerous seeds that the incarnate Word had planted in them, thereby guiding them along the paths of the Gospel. In effect, the proclamation of Jesus and of his Gospel did not at any point involve an alienation of the pre-Columbus cultures, nor was it the imposition of a foreign culture. Authentic cultures are not closed in upon themselves, nor are they set in stone at a particular point in history, but they are open, or better still, they are seeking an encounter with other cultures, hoping to reach universality through encounter and dialogue with other ways of life and with elements that can lead to a new synthesis, in which the diversity of expressions is always respected as well as the diversity of their particular cultural embodiment. "

So here you have it. According to the Pope's private, demented crossword puzzle dictionary, genocide has the following entry:

GENOCIDE: 7 Baptism 8 adoption, fruition, guidance, dialogue 9 encounter, welcoming, synthesis, diversity 10 acceptance 12 purification, (6,7) silent longing (6,4) divine life

However, a cursory check of any other dictionary is likely to turn up the following definition:

GENOCIDE: In international law, the intentional and systematic destruction, wholly or in part, by a government of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group. Also see butchery, extermination, massacre.

Historical revisionism at its finest!

More more on this, see Father of Lies: The Pope's Genocidal Revisionism