It isn't politically correct to call groups of people savages, but I care about being correct,

not politically correct.

And in today's episode, we'll see why it was necessary for Christians to extinguish savage

evils and the barbaric people that still need to be evangelized today.

Now, if you're my age, the word savages probably makes you think of English settlers and

Powhatan Indians singing about each other

being savages in the 1995 film Pocahontas. But Pocahontas is wildly inaccurate and is part of a

modern propaganda campaign to teach the myth of the noble savage. This is the idea that

indigenous peoples are inherently good, peaceful, and live in harmony with nature, whereas European

culture is inherently evil, exploitative, and materialistic. The myth was propagated by accounts

like those of the 18th century explorer James Cook, who said of Australian Aborigines,

they live in a tranquility which is not disturbed by the inequality of condition. The earth and

sea of their own accord furnishes

them with all things necessary for life. They covet not magnificent houses, household stuff, etc.

This is ironic because nine years later, a group of Hawaiian natives killed Cook while he was trying

to kidnap their chief in retaliation for the Hawaiian stealing one of Cook's boats.

In the animated Pocahontas film, the English colonist leader, John Ratcliffe, is a cartoonishly evil villain obsessed with gold,

who becomes the victim of a righteous mutiny that sends him back to England to be tried for his crimes.

However, the real Ratcliffe was, at worst, a poor leader who tried his best.

In 1610, after a lack of supplies resulted in 90% of the colonists dying.

Ratcliffe went to the Powhatan Indians to trade for food, but was instead ambushed and had his skin flayed off with muscle shells.

His friend George Percy described his death this way.

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