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Re: An open letter to Ben Affleck: Your heart was in the right place, but…
Posted by Marcello (Guest) - Thursday, November 13 2014, 4:19:09 (UTC)
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"...the title reminds me of what happened to our people in the early 19th century and thereafter...as Dr Joseph points out, there was an awakening of evangelical fervor at that time in America and Europe such as had never been before...the result was missionaries going forth among our people in the MidEast to pioneer Imperialism under the guise of religious conversion.

...what damns these bastards even more is that they set out to convert Christians to THEIR brand of the same religion....they didn't go trying to convert "heathens" but fellow-Christians...whom they, anyway, regarded as pagans. They all served their home-countries' imperial politics as much as they ever served Jesus.

...Jesus was the pretext then, and he is again."



-- It's interesting that you mention this: last night I was watching an old interview of Eqbal Ahmad in which he was discussing how western missionaries imposed their evangelical faith onto the colonized and also implemented artificial differences (as the Belgian did in Rwanda between Hutu and Tutsi) or how the way in which they started class differences by favoring one group (usually called the "comprador class") as in the burgeoning Black bourgeoisie in South Africa where Whites own 80% of the wealth, and where Apartheid still persists in the most significant way: economically. I bring this up with you and Dr. Joseph in mind, recalling what you said in relation to how the British deceptively manipulated some of our leaders by treating like fellow aristocrats, referring to them as "My Lord" or "My Laas they did with the Arab, African, Asian, and North American tribal chiefs whom they were shaping to mold into pliant clients.



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