http://faithandheritage.com/2011/11/the-reality-of-race/
But propositionalists and egalitarians within the Church will undoubtedly quip: “… but that’s only because the European has been steeped in the Gospel so much longer than the African!” But this too is wholly untrue. St. Philip’s ministry to the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:27-39) marked the first-century inauguration of the Abyssinian church and the institution of the Ethiopic See. African Christianity began contemporaneously with European Christianity, but even where the African’s perspectival expressions of the faith have most approached something which we might regard as orthodox, their spirituality has remained in numerous ways so distinct from our own that we have historically had great difficulty even identifying their expressions of the faith as Christian in the most basic sense. For instance, we find that the African conception of the Christian family has typically been a matriarch, overseen by her mother (a grand-matriarch, if you will), and a male blood relative (usually the lesser matriarch’s brother), together rearing the offspring of several different men. Generally, the children are considered the property not of one family alone, but of the village communally. Hillary Clinton notoriously tried to sell this African model to Americans with the phrase, “It takes a village.” This phrase quickly became a byword with which to mock liberals, but Blacks took immediate offense at this because they understood American Whites to actually be mocking African-“Christian” values. The predilection for this type of familial organization has proven so strong in the African that every colonial society of Blacks in the world has quite unconsciously returned to this model as soon as the grip of European paternalism is loosened. There are admittedly exceptions to this pattern. The Maasai tribe is one: the men take multiple wives, and in order to support their tenuous patriarchy, they perform “circumcision” on all their women to better ensure the fidelity of their wives. Meanwhile, the men still remain gratuitous philanderers. But the exceptions actually prove the rule as well, do they not?
No matter how long Whites have spent trying to imbue them with the idea of the Christian family, Christianized Black societies shed the institution as soon as Whites yield control back to Blacks. Hence, Blacks in America, despite claiming Christianity at a higher ratio than Whites, popularly conclude that “marriage is for White people.” Consider also that African Christians still routinely burn their children and their elderly alive for suspicion of being witches. But of course, Whites used to do the same, didn’t they? No, not exactly. European Christians executed witches, to be sure. But most of the accused were actually guilty of witchcraft. The only real question of propriety arose regarding the matter of “spectral evidence,” i.e., witches appearing in a person’s dreams or as an apparition. Such were at the time legitimate questions of jurisprudence in need of definitive interpretation and resolution. It was the Salem Witch Trials in America which eventually settled these matters, resolving that spectral evidence could not meet the biblical bar for an eyewitness. That was some 300 years ago. Once American courts arrived at this conclusion, the insight was universally embraced across the entirety of the European-stock Western world. Albeit, the hate crime (or more aptly termed “thought crime”) laws of the post-civil rights era have actually shoved modern jurisprudence into a far more primitive state than that of the pre-Salem days – but that’s an issue for another article in itself.
What, then, do African Christians today cite as reasons for suspicion of witchcraft? Typically, they connect bad weather and a child’s profusion (or lack) of talkativeness as indications of witchcraft. The irony of the matter is that while they burn toddlers and grandmothers for their suspected leagues with spirits, the average African church service features blood sacrifice of animals, trances, necromancy (speaking with and asking favors of the dead), and various incantations commanding nature to do their bidding – all in Jesus’ name, of course. Basically, the most devout Christians among them are themselves ostensibly guilty of witchcraft, more so than their mute babies, that’s for certain. Add to that the fact that they are yet to make any substantial effort to eradicate their peoples’ grievous and ongoing cultural practices of gang-rape, child-rape, and cannibalism.
The Ethiopians in Aksum were converted to Orthodox Christianity over 1,600 years ago.
Other Africans south of the Sahara desert remained entirely untouched by Christianity and were not converted to Protestanism or Catholicism until recent times by western missionaries. Maasai and Nigerian Christians have nothing to do with Ethiopian Orthodox.
The white supremacist here is bringing up a total straw man, claiming because Ethiopians were converted to Christianity at the same time as other Europeans, that other Africans must have known Christianity as long as them.
A Nigerian Christian who was recently converted by a western missionary practicing voodoo like rituals in Church, has jack to do with the fact that totally unrelated Ethiopians were Christians at the same time as Europeans.
Even after two millennia of European missions to and discipleship of the African, White Christians yet find the church environment fostered by Africans difficult to differentiate from the grossest expressions of paganism. One such ethno-cultural handicap seems central to the entire discussion of the African’s interaction with the faith: many a White missionary, explorer, and Bible translator blanched to learn that, prior to colonialism, Blacks were found to possess no corollary in any native dialect for the words “promise,” “bond,” “oath,” “dedication,” “contract,” or “covenant.” And it wasn’t just that they lacked the words; no, they lacked the very concepts. That conceptual vacancy bespoke a uniquely impaired psychology and spiritual condition back of it. Since this continuum of ideas was understood as so indispensable to Christian family, vocation, religion, and civilization, Europeans were compelled to coin like terms on behalf of the African by splicing pre-existing words of the native dialects together in hopes of approximating the needed concepts. The result was that, after the Europeans created written forms to parallel the natives’ vocalizations, African Bibles were translated, and the Gospel sown, using terms like “chained-to,” ‘tied-down,” “tethered,” and so on to communicate the covenantal concepts. Of course, these sorts of ad hoc translations still fell short of the true meaning of our European equivalents, so many thought the African would better understand Christianity if he were only made literate in a European tongue. But this approach of teaching them in English that they are “contracted to their employer” has fared no better than teaching them in a Congolese dialect that they are “chained-to their master.” In fact, a strong case can be made that the former strategy has yielded less fruit than the latter. No, more than a strong case – it’s just a fact.
False, even assuming this false claim is true for Sub Saharan languages like Bantu ones, Ethiopic and Nubian languages definitely had such words since they were Christians for 1,600 years and had Bibles written in their own languages which had these words. Ethiopian Ge'ez Bibles date back to this era.
And here the white supremacist website takes entire quotes out of context:
The sterility and unprogressiveness of Negro civilizations, Negro states, are as much due to the paralyzing death-grip of Islam as to nature’s foreclosure of his intellectual powers when she mortgages the growth of his brain after puberty. [p. 71] . . . Africa is the home of the most man-like apes and the most ape-like men. [p. 164] . . . The Negro [has] an animal look . . . a cool, soft, thick skin, mostly hairless and as rancid as a goat’s . . . inherent mental inferiority. [p. 166] . . . The negro is unmoral . . . an overgrown child. [p. 167] . . . . Anarchy is the dominant chord in the Hamite. [p. 169] . . . The lost churches of Abyssinia and Egypt slept in living death. . . . Africa was a land of death-shades . . . Darkness covered the earth, gross darkness the peoples. [p. 178] . . . Gobat considered that Ethiopic Christianity retains enough Christianity to be still called a Christian faith. Since it shows the utmost amount of superstition that can overwhelm a church without killing it, Gobat’s charitable judgment may stand. But acceptance of this view strains our idea of Christianity and the church almost to breaking. . . . Whatever of extravagant ritualism, excessive dogmatism and fatal divorce between ethics and religion disfigures oriental Christianity reveals itself most hideously in Abyssinia. [p. 192] . . . Negro theology when eliminated of superstition retains little religion. [p. 199]1
That's not what the original author Frederick Perry Noble meant. His quotes were cherry picked out of context. Noble was criticizing Ethiopian Christianity but not for retaining voodoo like practices, he was referring to their retention of Judaic Old Testament traditions.
"Whatever of Egyptian and Jewish ritual the Kopts preserve, the Abyssinians carry to excess. An ark of Zion is the center of devotion in their every church. On it depends the sanctity of the edifice. Circumcision is of equal necessity with baptism. The Abyssinian is a truer Sabbatarian than the Seventh=Day Baptist. He observes the Jewish Sabbath as well as the Christian Sunday. With the Mormon or Latter=Day Saint he clings to polygamy. Whatever of extravagant ritualism, excessive dogmatism and fatal divorce between ethics and religion disfigures oriental Christianity reveals itself most hideously in Abyssinia."
Black Africans, unlike Europeans or Asians, have no ruins of past civilization, no archeological, written, or even oral history of which to speak. They never created any written languages. Nor did they smelt metals of any kind, invent bricks, or even produce the wheel. As incredible as it may be to contemplate, as a race, they have barely harnessed fire. Aside from the importation and subsidization of all of these on the part of Europeans or Arabs to a lesser degree, Africans would still today be living in pre-paleolithic conditions. For such reasons, Africa was in more Christian times known at once as “The Lost Continent,” “The Pariah Continent,” and most ubiquitously, “The Dark Continent.”
This is a flat out lie. Sub Saharan Bantu Africans developed iron smelting 2,000 years ago and some of them even smelted high quality steel. The Bantu were all armed with iron or steel weapons before Europeans came and the Zulu used iron weapons to fight against the British and succesfully defeated the British with their steel spears at the Battle of Isandlwana.
http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/iron-age-kingdoms-southern-africa
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536544/Zulu-tribal-shield-used-slaughter-British-troops-infamous-Battle-Isandlwana-set-fetch-800-auction.html
http://samilitaryhistory.org/vol044sb.html
The Haya people in East Africa smelted steel for 1,500 years according to both archaeological and oral history
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912179,00.html?iid=chix-sphere
Some date it back 2,000 years ago.
Africans were armed with iron steel weapons while Native Americans were mostly armed with stone weapons
Africans left archeological stone remnants of civilizations like Great Zimbabwe and Empires and Kingdoms like Benin and Kongo were visited by European explorers.
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