Re: THE COLONIZED

12/11/2000, KSamman@aol.com wrote:
    > What struck me most is that this structure of thought was
    built over time not only for the purposes of colonizing some
    far off lands, but in the national consolidation of states
    all over the world, from European States to the Arab regimes
    themselves.  Of course, the texts cited for this project in
    all these cases varied, but all came from the same cast of
    mind: the creation of states over a fixed territory defined
    as the land of a particular people.

In the case of the biblical texts, let us keep in mind one
critical episode - the mutual accomodation of the
institutions of Christianity with the institutions of empire
under Constantine.  This left us with a Christianized West,
and a Christianity which had been transformed into an instrument of
imperialism.  

rkm