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I hope you'll be wasn't that bad.

I really think, you know, everyone's comments here are very crucial for that kind of deconstruction

of the colonial influence that has been happening and still happening. And I think what

Sheldon's talking about is correct as well and, you know, Elise brought this up in her

case, which is also decolonizing Mormonism as well. And her piece is called This is the Place

Disrupting Mormon Settler Colonialism. And her assertion is basically that Mormonism is

Settler Colonialism. It's really the embodiment and the actual enacting of

Settler Colonialism, which is still present and alive and well. And I think that's really bold

to take a position to take, but it's also very accurate. And my position right now is not

one of trying to say that we are better than another or that we know better than anybody else

due to all of this historical inaccuracies. I mean, at the end of the day, everybody has

their own belief systems and everyone has their own healer, their own peace messenger,

their own sort of archetypal Jesus Christ, whether it's sweet medicine or the peacemaker

in Haudenosaunee, Iroquois, Confederacy or it's, you know, Muhammad or Buddha or Jesus,

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