The Doctrine of Discovery is still embedded in American property law today. It was cited by the US Supreme Court as recently as 2005 to deny Indigenous people ownership of their own land. A doctrine written by a pope in 1452 is still being used by American courts in the 21st century.
Most people have never heard of it. That is not an accident.
Here is what they do not teach in history class. Pope Alexander VI, the man who divided the so-called non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal and authorized the conquest of Africa, was personally corrupt. He used his position as pope to secure money and personal favors for his own family. The man who gave Europe permission to enslave millions was doing it for personal profit.
The Vatican knew this. They repudiated the doctrine in 2023. But they stopped short of rescinding the original papal bulls. The documents that authorized the invasion of Africa and the enslavement of its people remain on the books to this day.
And the Church that issued them holds assets worth trillions.
@endcelebrationofignorance @akonoadham so sick. I read about these a few years ago but great insights. The pope at the time claimed blacks had no souls either so it was only right to make them become slaves and later Christian’. How they use God as a weapon of mass destruction.
This below was written by Lepold the 2nd of Belgium. He nearly whipped out 25 million African people in the Congo. It wasn’t until the Black Lives Matter movement forced Belgium’s hand to take down his statusz
