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Perhaps African Americans Are Finally Catching On
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RE: Perhaps African Americans Are Finally Catching On
(October 17, 2018 at 6:40 am)Khemikal Wrote: And was owned by rome, at the the time of christianization, who would later export christianity to the aksuma empire in the 4th century.  

It's pointless to contend that christianity spread into africa by anything other than missionary means.  Its spread would be curtailed shortly after since rome cracked down on christians then the islamic conquest swept north africa.  Those taken in by the islamic slave trade in west africa for use in the euro and then transantlantic would have been, in the vast majority, pagans.  Their european interlocuters their first introduction to christianity (as it had become) in the 17th and 18th centuries.  Leading to the host of carribbean religious traditions we now see.  Their later exploitation by continentals with a different christianity had a similar effect.  

These are historical facts.  It's pointless to argue against them or claim that moses has some shit to tell us about any of it (and you butchered that anyway, lol).

Not that it matters..since..in the end, pagan slave populations built their own syncretic christianity, distinct from those of their socio-economic betters, and so it remains to this very day...with churches being among the most segregated places on earth.  Is the christianity practised by black americans, today..the religion of their past (or present) oppressors?  Yes and no.  Demonstrably yes in the sense that you are arguing against (and thus it has always been..from it's inception).  Demonstrably no in a sense that you would probably reject for syncretism, lol.

Christianity is not from africa, and the introduction of christianity to africa was largely the work of later europeans, before that it was the work of the roman empire - but by all means, carry on.  Neither group had immense amounts of success in their own time.  It was only recently that africa became a majority abrahamic continent.

I don't know how many time I must go over this with you but I just going to post this and keep it movin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Africa

Quote:The Ethiopian church community in the Horn of Africa wasn’t the product of European missionary work, but it was founded prior to missionary work by any European countries.
Article from the New York Times...

DNA Backs a Tribe's Tradition Of Early Descent From the Jews

Quote:The Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of Judea by a man named Buba. They practice circumcision, keep one day a week holy and avoid eating pork or piglike animals, such as the hippopotamus.

Several groups around the world practice Judaic rites or claim to be descended from biblical tribes without having any ancestral Jewish connection. And there is no Buba in the records of Jewish history.

But the remarkable thing about the Lemba tradition is that it may be exactly right. A team of geneticists has found that many Lemba men carry in their male chromosome a set of DNA sequences that is distinctive of the cohanim, the Jewish priests believed to be the descendants of Aaron. The genetic signature of priests -- a hereditary caste, different from rabbis but with certain ritual roles -- is particularly common among Lemba men who belong to the senior of their 12 groups, known as the Buba clan.
Quote:Because the cohen genetic signature is rare or absent in all non-Jewish populations tested so far, the findings strongly support the Lemba tradition of Jewish ancestry. Dr. Goldstein said his findings had been submitted to the American Journal of Human Genetics.
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RE: Perhaps African Americans Are Finally Catching On - by Huggy Bear - October 19, 2018 at 11:15 am

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