AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING


AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
                                  -  E. Pauline Johnson

Johnson, Emily Pauline, author and performer; b. 10 March 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve, Upper Canada, daughter of George Henry Martin Johnson and Emily Susanna Howells; d. unmarried 7 March 1913 in Vancouver. They account for it by the fact that I am a Redskin, but I am something else, too. I am a woman. He imposes these prejudices on Laurence, convincing him not to marry Esther without a thought how Esther might feel.


Father Paul even doesn’t regard her as a person, much less a woman with thoughts and feelings and intelligence. How ironic that he teaches love and acceptance on one hand and yet does not practice what he preaches. Father Paul is also a coward because only a coward keeps his true feelings to himself and presents a false front to the people he secretly loathes. He hides behind his religious beliefs so he does not have to admit that his sole desire is to manipulate and control the thoughts and ideas of a whole race of people so that In As It was In The Beginninga E religion is used as a way to assimilate aboriginal children. At an early age, the native children are introduced to the thought of hell. The idea of Hell is used as a threat to get the children to follow instructions and not question any of the teachings. The native children are so scared of hell that they will do anything to avoid any possibility of ever ending up there. Christian religion teaches that God loves and forgives everyone.

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