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With the European colonizers came the church and it's various branches. Civilizing the Native people was a top priority, and so began a brutal push to make them adopt the European ideas of society. This meant erasing the gods, creation stories and histories of the various societies that had existed before them. Churches were built as centers of reformation for any who wished to escape persecution, not realizing that trying to convert the Native people was another form of persecution. Children were shipped off to schools and taught the word of god as their parents were systematically exterminated for refusing to adopt the laws of their colonizers.

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Demanding blood
Cut from the insolent
Belief is not enough
Demanding gold
As payment for your sins
For shame of thine existence
Of flesh and bone
And pure as fallen snow
A "savior" that mirrors
Unjustly flattered souls
Wicked is he
Found free of shame and greed
One god fulfills
Your every want and need

Destroy the ones who birthed you
The soil, sky and sea
Hold nothing valuable that
On which your soul can feed
The book will give you shelter
For life eternally
Knowledge passed through the ages
Erased by western speech

Constructing monuments to
Your masters childish whims
While desecrating those that
You find no solace in
Each day the bell tolls over
This worn and stolen land
A lie perpetuated
Claims to be sovereign

Souls cut from earthly flesh
Find redemption in death
Gods felled to civilize
Now sharing soil with your lies

Repent or face the blade
Rejoice in holy grace
Arise, born again
Now free from mortal sin

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from The White Plague, released November 25, 2018

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