When Morality Shifts: Why African christianity must define its own values

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• GPS 1 week ago

  All these religions were brought to Africa by the Europeans and Arabs. Africans did have their own religions before these Arabs and Europeans arrived. Don't let us kill ourselves by using religions. The brains to know the rig ...
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  All these religions were brought to Africa by the Europeans and Arabs. Africans did have their own religions before these Arabs and Europeans arrived. Don't let us kill ourselves by using religions. The brains to know the right and wrong is the most important. Wise up my African brothers and sisters

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• ARNOLD ARYEE 1 week ago

  Hi
  
  Do you know when Christianity first came to Africa.
  
  Do you know Who is a Christian from the Biblical Word of the God of the Bible.
  
  Your opinion does not define a person who is a Christian.
  
  Thanks. God Ble ...
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  Hi
  
  Do you know when Christianity first came to Africa.
  
  Do you know Who is a Christian from the Biblical Word of the God of the Bible.
  
  Your opinion does not define a person who is a Christian.
  
  Thanks. God Bless.

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• Kwame 5 days ago

  Before we take a look at this article, to write a rejoinder or analyse it, we must first of all understand what the Englishman mean by Moral.
  The Oxford Advanced Dictionary define Moral as an attribute concerned with princip ...
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  Before we take a look at this article, to write a rejoinder or analyse it, we must first of all understand what the Englishman mean by Moral.
  The Oxford Advanced Dictionary define Moral as an attribute concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviour; ethical: a moral question/problem/judgement/dilemma, moral philosophy: challenge something on moral grounds.
  But the question we must ask here is, is what is agreed in a particular society to be moral permanent, is it always humane and always correspond with humanistic principles.
  Humane is described by the same dictionary as having showing sympathy, kindness and understanding.
  Thus when the matter is about the human person, morality does not have the attributes of kindness, sympathy and understanding.
  The Western European and US morality today is what is based on what they call the world rule. The world rule means that what is in the interest of monopoly capital. Using their army, courts, intelligence agencies and the press to control how people must live.
  Thus in the nutshell, capitalist moral means what must be done and undone for the capitalist to get a lot of profit. Thus they talk about the number of billionaires and millionaires and not about the number of people and nations they have been able to lift out of poverty.
  Then with the Church of England, the Anglican Church. That church was a Roman Catholic church which want to right the wrong that was done to a king that lost the wife.
  The Roman Catholic Church said that the widowed king cannot remarry. Thus the King formed his own church and named it Anglican.
  Like Martin Luther who made a priest of the layman and a priest a layman according to Karl Marx in his "German Philosophy".
  The Anglican church was formed for both widows and widower, so that even though they lost their spouse as opposed to the norms of the Roman Catholic Church. The Anglican made the widower again a married man, the widow a married woman and the married person a widower and a married woman a widow.
  The issue above has to do with a man and woman.
  Now let's look at issues that have to do with nations and nationalities.
  To religious person slavery was moral, that a person should own his fellow human being, who he relates to even in an inhumane manner than he relates to his dog. Though he owned the two as a result of some sort of exchange.
  The church that supports slavery have a set of laws for slavery, but the fact remains that is it not allowed for the slave to disobey his master.
  So in the eve of the edict by La Cases, the Catholic Archbishop of Lisbon, that Europeans must go to Africa, fight Africans, take them captives, arm some African tribes to take their fellow Africans captives and sell them as slaves to the Caucasian and the Caucasian to sale the African captives as slaves and take them to America. In the same edict, a Caucasian cannot keep his fellow Caucasian and a Semitic as a slave in America.
  So what was amoral here is that La Cases freed the Caucasian and Semitic as a slave in America, but replaced him with a Negro.
  So La Cases and the Roman Catholic Church freed the Caucasian and Semitic races from slavery, but made the law that from that time only Negroes shall be held as slaves in America.
  Before the years of the American and European Opium Wars in the Middle East and China, opium that is know as a dangerous drug was forced on the grower in Afghanistan at gunpoint, that he is under an obligation at gunpoint to produce a certain amount of opium and sell in to British, Dutch and American merchants, on whose behalf American, British and Dutch forces with the blessing of the church and support of their citizens by having a special day that they cally poppy day to contribute money towards the war for the opium cultivation and selling.
  The military of America, Britain and Holland occupied China, forced the Chinese to buy opium and use it, even if that last money he or she had was to buy food for himself and family.
  Then about colonization, neocolonialism and neoliberalism.
  The Anglican Church had an edic that Europeans must go to Africa and colonize Africans.
  I don't want to go into the history of colonization and neocolonialism again, but what the US and her allies call the world order that they set for others without the concern or input.
  The most heinous of their policy today which the Christian Church supports, not excluding homosexuality is the policy that human beings must stop hearing animals, that we must in the future declare some human races as not fit to live and nations not desirable, thus slaughter them and eat in place of honsociatal animals.
  Europeans and Americans don't agree with polygamy but they agree that both men and women can go to designated places in their cities and towns pick a person according to their sexual interest, have sex with her or him and pay for it.
  Whatever seems to be a problem with the African polygamy is that a woman is not allowed to marry more than one man.
  That policy may have a change in the future.

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