SA-GO-YE-WAT-HA (1752-1830)

SA-GO-YE-WAT-HA (1752-1830)

I enjoyed this reading and thought what SA-GO-YE-WAT-HA said was so simple, something that I was raised to believe that everyone should be able to worship in their own way. Were not telling you your wrong so don’t try to tell us that we are. Religious freedom was why the white men came to America in the first place and then they try to change others because theirs is the right way and everyone else is wrong. How do they know? I thought it was great the way he pointed out that even though their religion was written in a book they all still could not agree on the correct way to worship and that the “Red Men” never quarreled about religion. I agree that “forms of worship do not matter”, what “pleases him is the offering of a sincere heart”. I like how he mentioned that they might reconsider if the preaching helped their neighbors be “honest and less disposed to cheat the red man”
Would you believe in someone’s religion when you didn’t agree with how they treated others?
Think about this if someone came to your house and asked you for dinner you might help them. Then the next night they showed up with their family and asked you for dinner would you feed them? Then they came back with more people and asked you if they could stay, then they paid your family to fight you until you moved into the barn and they lived in your house. Then they came to you and said that they way you talk to god is wrong you need to do it their way. Would you believe them? Would you believe in someone’s religion when you didn’t agree with how they treated others? I don’t think that I would go against everything that I was ever taught by my ancestors for strangers who came in and took advantage of my hospitality, killed my brothers and lied to me again and again. After all that was taken from them I think that is was very respectful that they even offered their hand to the white men and blessed them on their journey.