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I was watching a TV recording last night, in it they showed an old news-reel of Inuit celebrating Easter. I was immediately like “WTF” — Christian beliefs, way over there? I couldn’t believe it. Because I wouldn’t think Christians would’ve their balls frozen off trying to convert those folks. And second, because I would’ve thought they would’ve held fast to their own beliefs. The clip showed kids playing the game of carrying an egg in a spoon which you hold with your mouth (the egg was replaced by a snow-ball though). Can you believe that, in the freezing cold? I thought the clip was a down-right set-up. Fake. Propaganda.

Curious as to what the ‘truth’ is, I started browsing around and read that, indeed, Christians converted the whole lot of them, through a ritual called “siqqitiq”:

(From wikipedia.org):
Siqqitiq (meaning transforming one’s life, more specifically adopting Christianity) is the ritual of converting Inuits with shamanist beliefs to Christianity. This is usually accompanied by ritualistic consumption of foods held taboo by shamanist belief (like caribou lung and heart), to underscore the fact that such taboos no longer apply.

Mkayy, well….. what can I see other than: “That’s bloody typical”. Kinda like force-feeding Islamic people pork — something they’d do if they could get away with it, I’m sure.

Incidentally, through this blog post I hit this story about someone that has been in that area and how Christianity is the default belief over there. It’s amazingly sad how, once again, Christianity wiped out a entire belief and assimilated yet another culture.

I think the term ‘punk ass religious fanatic bitches‘ applies to them just fine…