Christianity isn't a "colonial" religion.
Some quick facts:
- The first-ever Christian was Ethiopian, and the first-ever Christian church was built in Ethiopia.
- No.1 supports the fact that Christian thinking (not the white supremacists who co-opted and b*stardized the faith type of thinking) is predominantly African in origin, i.e., most of the influential and intellectual Christians were from Africa. Their teachings spread across Europe. An African scholar you can look into that greatly impacted the faith and directed how one should look at it is Athanasius of Alexandria (Romans called him the "black dwarf" insultingly but he is the one that had the most influence over the faith); you can also look into Augustine of Hippo, another African scholar.
- Colonial white supremacists who were so-called "christians" initially refused to allow Africans to either continue practicing Christianity as they had back in Africa (for instance the people in Takrur, West Africa, practiced Christianity long before Europeans stepped on the continent) because those white "christians" believed that it would create legal precedence for the Africans to gain their freedom. These same colonial white supremacist "christians" would even kill other whites that were trying to teach Africans (those that didn't know Christianity) the fullness of the faith. These same white supremacists would then create the unholy slave-bible to keep the slaves in check and stop/suppress other white Christians from teaching the faith in its fullness.
- About 2/3 of so-called white "christians" today are really white supremacists following a religion that idolizes themselves and their own corrupt, decadent thoughts (these same 2/3 believe the constitution is divinely ordained which goes to show how corrupt they are and they shouldn't be associated with the faith). They aren't Christian in thought nor practice. They are liars, hypocrites, and workers of the devil. Associating their corrupt and pagan forefathers and foremothers with me and my forefathers and foremothers who were/are Christians is a disgusting insult.
Some books
"How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind" by Thomas Oden
"A Multitude of All Peoples" by Vince Bantu
"Bad-Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right" by Randall Balmar
"White Evangelical Racism: the Politics of Morality in America" by Anthea Butler
"Christian Slavery:
Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World" by Katharine Gebner
I'll leave this quote here from another great Black Christian.
What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference — so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of "stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in." I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me. We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members. The man who wields the blood-clotted cowskin during the week fills the pulpit on Sunday, and claims to be a minister of the meek and lowly Jesus. The man who robs me of my earnings at the end of each week meets me as a class-leader on Sunday morning, to show me the way of life, and the path of salvation. He who sells my sister, for purposes of prostitution, stands forth as the pious advocate of purity. He who proclaims it a religious duty to read the Bible denies me the right of learning to read the name of the God who made me. He who is the religious advocate of marriage robs whole millions of its sacred influence, and leaves them to the ravages of wholesale pollution. The warm defender of the sacredness of the family relation is the same that scatters whole families, — sundering husbands and wives, parents and children, sisters and brothers, — leaving the hut vacant, and the hearth desolate. We see the thief preaching against theft, and the adulterer against adultery. We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the poor heathen! all for the glory of God and the good of souls! The slave auctioneer's bell and the church-going bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heart-broken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master. Revivals of religion and revivals in the slave-trade go hand in hand together. The slave prison and the church stand near each other. The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison, and the pious psalm and solemn prayer in the church, may be heard at the same time. The dealers in the bodies and souls of men erect their stand in the presence of the pulpit, and they mutually help each other. The dealer gives his blood-stained gold to support the pulpit, and the pulpit, in return, covers his infernal business with the garb of Christianity. Here we have religion and robbery the allies of each other — devils dressed in angels' robes, and hell presenting the semblance of paradise. ~ Frederick Douglass
Read it in full here: Douglass' Narrative
I also suggest reading: James Cone breaks down how white "christians" have corrupted the faith in favor of power and wealth.
