Old Testament God's Evil Directive To Christians Is Responsible For Native Land Theft
by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
On March 22, 2017, the following letter to the editor was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper.
Based on the Bible
In 1832, the U.S. Supreme Court used a 15th century Roman Catholic Church colonial doctrine, a doctrine
that European Catholic monarchs and other Catholic influenced monarchs used to formulate their colonization
policies, to assert that the United States, as the successor of Great Britain, had inherited possession of
all Indigenous Peoples' lands within the newly claimed boundaries of the U.S.. The doctrine that I am
referring to is called the Doctrine of Christian Discovery. It is based on an Old Testament scripture.
Indigenous Peoples' cultural rights, including their fundamental human right to be free and independent
sovereign nations on their own lands, were violated by the colonial Christians obeying their Old
Testament God's evil directive. Psalm 2 KJV. says: "I [Jehovah] shall give thee [Christians] the heathen [Indigenous Peoples]
for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a
rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
[The International Organization for Self-Determination and Equality (IOSDE) recently posted a press release
entitled, United Nations Declares The Holy See Legally Responsible and Accountable To Indigenous Peoples
For Effects and Legacy Of Racist Colonial Bulls And Doctrines. The press-release is about the Apache-Ndé-Nneé Working
Group Shadow Report/UN-CERD 88th Session: Review of the Holy See.]
One Apache-Ndé-Nneé Working Group Shadow Report statement reads: The Holy See's Inter Caetera not only
blessed policies and practices of colonialism that caused what is expressed by Indigenous Peoples themselves
as genocide, cultural genocide, and generations of suffering, slavery and loss, but it also put policies and
practices into action, such as, but not limited to, through its own missionaries and missions, churches and
subsequent schools, that operated and continue to operate in alliance with Kingdoms and subsequently States
for own mutually-collective world dominance and at the cost of Indigenous Peoples and their lands, lives,
self-determination and cultures.
"The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
has recognized that the Doctrine of Discovery, the Holy See's Inter Caetera and related Papal Bulls are within
the legal scope of racial discrimination under International Law and therefore require redress." - IOSDE
In his article entitled "Our Lenape Ancestors Were Slaughtered At Bowing Green Massacre" Steven Newcomb, an Indigenous activist, wrote:
"The doctrine of Christian domination, as used by the United States, in the name of U.S. 'law,' argues that our
nations are rightfully subject to the ideas and rules developed by the 'first Christian people' to 'discover' the
non-Christian lands of 'natives, who were heathens' (U.S. Supreme Court’s wording). According to the Oxford
English Dictionary, 'heathen' is 'a word of Christian origin,' which means it is a word of biblical origin
used by the Supreme Court."
"How has the United States managed to get away with officially using doctrines of Christian Fundamentalism
and the Bible to claim a right of ownership in relation to our lands and territories? Answer: They claim a
'right of domination' over our nations and peoples based on the Chosen People/Promised Land model of the Old
Testament. In other words, because the Bible told them so."
Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer
Wahkon, Minnesota
A related letter to the editor of mine is entitled Dahlheimer: Group – Land title to Dakota nullified.
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