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In 1637, 17 years after the landing of the Pilgrim fathers in the New World, a force of the

colonists joined with native allies to launch a devastating attack against a Native American

tribe called the Pequots.

Four hundred of the Pequots were wiped out.

Men, women, children, left dead amid the blazing of their wigwams.

It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire, wrote a contemporary witness.

And the streams of blood quenching the same and horrible was the stink consent thereof.

And that the tone of that reflects a sense of horror that was bred of a deeply Christian

anxiety about the bloodshed that had been committed by the Puritans together with their Native American

allies.

But at the same time, even as some of the Pilgrim fathers were expressing their sense of shock,

there were others who were answering with the claim that God licensed slaughter in defense

of Israel.

And sometimes the scripture declared that women and children must perish with their parents,

one of the settlers said, we had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.

So Dominic, that kind of brilliantly write it the kind of the well springs of American

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