I don´t know that it is a Christian thing as much as a matter of who has been promotng their point of view (agenda).
There is a large Armenian diaspora population in the USA who have been here for around 100 years, they are well organized and very vocal regarding the issue. They rarely miss an opportunity to expound on the subject, always portraying themselves as innocent victims of savage barbaric blood crazed xenophobic Turks. who tried to erase them from the world just because they are Christians.
Most Americans know little about history, and they don´t seem to care. They fail to consider the fact that the time period was WWI, the time of the Bolshevic Revolution, the first major world flu epidemic (which killed at least 40, million persons world wide.
They have never heard of Tashnak or Hunchak parties that were dedicated to terrorism as an official polity, starting in 1887.
It is only recently Turkey really started countering the acusations, however, a lot of ground needs to be make up. It is only recently Turkey started countering the acusations, however, a lot of ground needs to be make up. Unfortunately, in the USA, one is expected to mount an energetic denial, the one who speaks the loudest gets believed.
Most Americans have never read the Hunchak official program
III. The Hunchakian program advocated revolution as the only means of reaching the immediate objective. The arena of revolutionary activity was designed as Turkish Armenia. The Party believed that the existing social organisation in Turkish Armenia could be changed by violence against the Turkish government and described the following methods. Propaganda, Agitation, Terror, Organisation, and Peasant and Worker Activities.
The reason they don´t seem to care, and are ignorant of history is because they are working day and night just to survive, which leaves little time for either self examination, and certainly no time to delve through historic documents to understand why things have evolved as they have.
People in many other countries think the USA is rich and Americans have easy lives. That´s just not true. It´s an illusion, a fantasy for most here.
So as you are from America, could you tell us why christians don´t recognize the Turkish genocide by christian Armenians?
Edited (1/29/2013) by alameda
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