Christian Control Of Women And Mother Earth: The Doctrine Of Discovery And The Doctrine Of Male Domination

“Christian Control Of Women And Mother Earth: The Doctrine Of Discovery And The Doctrine,” an Outcome archive entry by Sally Roesch Wagner. The entry belongs to the featured collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses How did the world come to be? How did humans come to be? What is the origin of all living beings? The myth history of who we are. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including Mother Earth to Indigenous people is the sacred and generous creator of everything that we need to survive; to Christians it is their real estate, taken by the force of spiritual superiority. Earth is nothing but dirt, which is synonymous with evil: a dirty mind, lower than dirt, etc. The Christian earth is the resistant enemy that Adam must overpower to survive. It begins with the Bible’s creation myth. The \ Bible’\ s first creation story in Genesis, chapter one declares that God creates “mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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