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~ Desmond Tutu...
"When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land.
They said 'Let us pray..' We closed our eyes.
When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."'

Sad but true. It reinforces my long-held opinion that the worst thing the blacks in America inherited from their white masters, was the Christian religion, the very religion that justified their domination.

fishline79 7 Feb 8
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I agree! It's a logical explanation.

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Any Native American could had told you that before Mr Tutu was born so.... I am not Impressed..... I heard it Before!!!!!!

Just because the Native Americans suffered the same fate does not diminish the plight of the native Africans! Just because you have heard it before means that Tutu's statement is disingenuous? How about the Mauri in New Zeland and the Aboriginal people of Australia?

@fishline79 Of everything you mentioned.... the Guilty always been the White Europeans, that happened to look like you..... you feeling Guilty now?

@GipsyOfNewSpain Why are you trying to bait me, or are you simply justifying your own bigotry? What does it have to do with me? He said what he said and I happen to like the comment. If you don't that's your issue.

@fishline79 Now accusing the guilty is bigotry.... Okay. I am Just holding Responsible those who Raped, those who Killed, those who Stole. Your Guilt or no Guilt is yours just like the Bait or no bait that you see or not see... Peace.

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Damn, Desmond summed it up in a way that gut punches you.

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Arab slave traders were just as worse. They would castrate the male slaves and breed the female slaves.

Just as worse?

Never seen a "make slave".

@GipsyOfNewSpain Sorry, Grammar Nazi. Autocorrect is a real bitch

@fishline79 Yeah, you know ... opposite of 'just as best.' 😉

@Heavykevy1985 "Auto Correct" used to be called "Proofreading".

@fishline79 yeah, you got me. Mr. Perfect. We are all aware the you are the most unerring person on the planet.

@Heavykevy1985 There's a guy in Pookeepsie who's better.

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There were plenty of bad African religions that were replaced by the Christian religion.

BD66 Level 8 Feb 9, 2021

And none of them are any good, regardless of where it comes from.

So they went from bad to worse?

@fishline79 You are welcome do do an analysis of the relative merits of African Religions and Christianity and report the results. My guess is, they all suck (including Christianity).

Bantu mythology (Central, Southeast, Southern Africa)
Bushongo mythology (Congo)
Kongo religion (Congo)
Lugbara mythology (Congo)
Baluba mythology (Congo)
Mbuti mythology (Congo)
Dinka religion (South Sudan)
Hausa animism (Chad, Gabon)
Lotuko mythology (South Sudan)
East Africa
Bantu mythology (Central, Southeast, Southern Africa)
Gikuyu people#Culture and beliefs (Kenya)
Akamba mythology (Kenya)
Maasai mythology (Kenya, Tanzania, Ouebian)
Kalenjin mythology (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania)
Dini Ya Msambwa (Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, Kenya)
Horn of Africa
Waaqeffanna (Oromia)
Waaqism (Ethiopian-Somali Region)
Southern Africa
Bantu mythology (Central, Southeast, Southern Africa)
Lozi mythology (Zambia)
Tumbuka mythology (Malawi)
Xhosa mythology (Southern Africa)
Zulu mythology (South Africa)
San religion (South Africa)
Traditional healers of South Africa
Manjonjo Healers of Chitungwiza of Zimbabwe
West Africa
Abwoi religion (Nigeria)
Akan religion (Ghana, Ivory Coast)
Dahomean religion (Benin, Togo)
Efik mythology (Nigeria, Cameroon)
Edo religion (Benin kingdom, Nigeria)
Hausa animism (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Togo)
Ijo traditional religion (Ijo people, Nigeria)
Odinani (Igbo people, Nigeria)
Asaase Yaa (Bono people, Ghana and Ivory Coast)
Serer religion (A ƭat Roog) (Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania)
Yoruba religion (Nigeria, Benin, Togo)
West African Vodun (Ghana, Benin, Togo, Nigeria)
Dogon religion (Mali)

@BD66 Why do the "Big 10" of world theologies call themselves "religions" and the ancient religions and the thousands of others you refer to are "Mithology".

@fishline79 The list was probably compiled by people who believe one of the "Big 10".

@BD66 compiled by people who believed huh🙄🤦♀️🤐🤷♀️

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For a real sad laugh, look up 'cargo cults' as well.

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Oh yes the B's of Colonialism, first come Beads, Baubles and Blankets, then the Bibles often followed closely by the Booze and when they've done their job along comes the Bullets.

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True bad deal

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And in the end people pay them to do that.

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I posted that song (among many others) on my Facebook page "Songs With Something to Say". Also "Simplicity in Muusical Art

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Missionary work is the greatest evil known to mankind imo

One of the best comeuppances of a missionary was in "At Play in the Fields of the Lord." One of the characters tells the missionary what the Amazonian indigenous actually think of his "Spirit in the Sky." Not the best film but that scene is worth the rest of the story.

@alliwant Is that the film that begins with a primitive aboriginal discovering a coke bottle?

@fishline79 No, that is "The Gods Must Be Crazy" The Kalahari Bushmen are featured in that wild little farce. Pretty good comedy with a few huge laughs in it.

@alliwant such a great flick

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Sounds like he is exposing the corruption in his own organization.

BD66 Level 8 Feb 8, 2021

Everyone knows that already without him even trying.

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This is true. Also, I feel that the whites wanted black slaves to adopt their religion. In the end they would be enslaved all that much more.

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I used to teach novels by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, and he said much the same in literature. Achebe became an atheist also.

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