Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

by Jack D. Forbes

It is very clear, incidentally, that Yehoshu’a ben Yosef (better known as Jesus) has been saved from being regarded as a savage or a primitive only by virtue of the popes and Christian archbishops who managed to pervert his teachings into a materialistic, wétiko series of cults. Yehoshu’a ben Yosef (Jesus son of Joseph) was an “Indian.” That is, he was a non-white (brown skin, black and probably curly or kinky hair) of very poor origins who worked as a craftsman or carpenter for many years, retired to the desert or mountain peaks to seek visions, never built any monuments, never saved any money, challenged the wealthy and the powerful, and publicly condemned greed, dogmatism and the acquisition of wealth. He bears no resemblance whatsoever to most later Christians, but it is the latter who have made him famous.