08-01-2015, 06:32 AM
The irony of the overthrow was that Queen Liliuokalani was a devout christian and she couldn't believe her haole christian "friends" would turn on her and the Hawaiian people.
The Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaii ended with Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893. At that time the "Missionary Party" desired annexation to the United States, though most of the Hawaiian people held allegiance to their queen. To Lili`uokalani 's detriment, she naively dismissed the Missionary's grown children as a petty minority and assumed they could not succeed.
One of her letters after being put under house arrest. She believed to the end that christian "goodness" would see the overthrow was wrong and would reinstate the christian monarchy:
"Oh honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my downtrodden people!" she wrote. "Do not covet the little vineyard of Naboth's, so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab fall upon you, if not in your day, in that of your children, for 'be not deceived, God is not mocked.' The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call "Father," and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes."
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
The Kamehameha dynasty of Hawaii ended with Queen Lili`uokalani in 1893. At that time the "Missionary Party" desired annexation to the United States, though most of the Hawaiian people held allegiance to their queen. To Lili`uokalani 's detriment, she naively dismissed the Missionary's grown children as a petty minority and assumed they could not succeed.
One of her letters after being put under house arrest. She believed to the end that christian "goodness" would see the overthrow was wrong and would reinstate the christian monarchy:
"Oh honest Americans, as Christians hear me for my downtrodden people!" she wrote. "Do not covet the little vineyard of Naboth's, so far from your shores, lest the punishment of Ahab fall upon you, if not in your day, in that of your children, for 'be not deceived, God is not mocked.' The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call "Father," and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes."
"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*