November 14, 2004

Sacrificial Platform. The native Hawaiians that are more radical do not acknowledge the suffering of the people under the "Kapu" religious system. They still have ceremonies, and bring cooked meat and produce to be given in "sacrifice" on a platform like this one at the base of the Pu'ukohola Heiau. They talk with nostalgia of the"good old days before the "haolies" and the missionaries came and corrupted our way of life" They fail to see that the "way of life" they were longing for was short and brutal for 99% of Hawaiians. Jesus is the Liberator from such brutality in religion.