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Must Read! "the True Intentions Of Christian Missionaries In Africa" by oshon: 2:21am On Feb 14, 2009
Letter from King Leopold II of Belgium to Colonial Missionaries, 1883



The letter which follows is Courtesy of Dr. Vera Nobles and Dr. Chiedozie Okoro.

Reverends, Fathers and Dear Compatriots: The task that is given tofulfill is very delicate and requires much tact. You will go certainlyto evangelize, but your evangelization must inspire above all Belgiuminterests. Your principal objective in our mission in the Congo isnever to teach the N****rs to know God, this they know already. Theyspeak and submit to a Mungu, one Nzambi, one Nzakomba, and what else Idon’t know. They know that to kill, to sleep with someone else’swife, to lie and to insult is bad. Have courage to admit it; you arenot going to teach them what they know already. Your essential role isto facilitate the task of administrators and industrials, which meansyou will go to interpret the gospel in the way it will be the best toprotect your interests in that part of the world. For these things,you have to keep watch on disinteresting our savages from the richness that is plenty [in their underground. To avoid that, they get interested in it, and make you murderous] competition and dream oneday to overthrow you.

Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to find texts ordering,and encouraging your followers to love poverty, like “Happier are the poor because they will inherit the heaven� and, “It’s verydifficult for the rich to enter the kingdom of God.? You have todetach from them and make them disrespect everything which gives courage to affront us. I make reference to their Mystic Systems and their war fetish-warfare protection-which they pretend not to want to abandon, and you must do everything in your power to make it disappear.

Your action will be directed essentially to the younger ones, for they wont revolt when the recommendation of the priest is contradictoryto their parent’s teachings. The children have to learn to obey whatthe missionary recommends, who is the father of their soul. You mustsingularly insist on their total submission and obedience, avoiddeveloping the spirit in the schools, teach students to read and notto reason. There, dear patriots, are some of the principles that youmust apply. You will find many other books, which will be given to youat the end of this conference. Evangelize the N****rs so that theystay forever in submission to the white colonialists, so they neverrevolt against the restraints they are undergoing. Recite everyday-“Happy are those who are weeping because the kingdom of God isfor them.�

Convert always the blacks by using the whip. Keep their women in nine months of submission to work freely for us. Force them to pay you insign of recognition-goats, chicken or eggs-every time you visit theirvillages. And make sure that N****rs never become rich. Sing every daythat it’s impossible for the rich to enter heaven. Make them pay tax each week at Sunday mass. Use the money supposed for the poor, tobuild flourishing business centres. Institute a confessional system,which allows you to be good detectives denouncing any black that has adifferent consciousness contrary to that of the decision-maker. Teachthe N****rs to forget their heroes and to adore only ours. Neverpresent a chair to a black that comes to visit you. Don’t give himmore than one cigarette. Never invite him for dinner even if he givesyou a chicken every time you arrive at his house.

“The above speech which shows the real intention of the Christianmissionary journey in Africa was exposed to the world by Mr. MoukouaniMuikwani Bukoko, born in the Congo in 1915, and who in 1935 whileworking in the Congo, bought a second hand Bible from a Belgian priestwho forgot the speech in the Bible. â€" Dr. Chiedozie Okoro We should note:

1] that all missionaries carried out, and still carry out, thatmandate. We are only lucky to have found King Leopold’s articulationof the aim of all Christian imperialist missionaries to Africa.

2] Even the African converts who today manage the older churches inAfrica (the priests, bishops, Archbishops, Cardinals etc of the Romanand Protestant sects), and especially also those who evangelizeBorn-Again Christianity, still serve the same mandate. Which is why they demonize African gods and Anglicize African names, and drop the names of African deities which form part of African names; and stillattack and demolish the African shrines that have managed to survive,e.g. Okija.

3] Those Africans who voluntarily converted to Christianity before the colonial conquest such as Affonso I of the BaKongo in the 15th century probably did not discern the purpose of the brand of Christianity thatwas supplied to them. Which was probably why they fell easy prey tothe missionaries and the white traders and pirates who followed them.

But their Japanese counterparts probably did discern the game, evenwithout access to some version of Leopold’s letter. But even if theJapanese Shoguns did not intuit what Leopold makes explicit, theyclearly realized the danger of Japanese converts to Christianity forming a fifth column within Japanese society and state, a fifthcolumn loyal to their co-religionists in Europe. To rid Japan of thatdanger, in the late 16th century, the Shoguns began their expulsion ofPortuguese and Spanish missionaries on the grounds that they wereforcing Japanese to become Christian, teaching their disciples towreck temples, taking and trading slaves, etc. Then, in 1596, itbecame clear to the Japanese authorities that Christianization hadbeen a prelude to Spanish conquest of other lands; and it quicklydawned on them that a fifth column loyal to Rome and controlled by thepriests of a foreign religion was a clear and present danger to thesovereignty of a newly unified Japan. Soon after, the persecution andsuppression of Japanese Christians began. Early in the 17th century,sensing the danger from a creed that taught obedience to foreignpriests rather than the Japanese authorities, all missionaries wereordered to leave and all Japanese were ordered to register at theBuddhist temples. When Japanese Christians took part in a rebellion,foreign priests were executed, the Spanish were expelled and JapaneseChristians were forbidden to travel abroad. After another rebellion,largely by Christians, was put down, the Japanese Christians weresuppressed and their descendants were put under close statesurveillance for centuries thereafter. In the 1640s all Japanesesuspected of being Christians were ruthlessly exterminated. Thus didJapan, by 1650, save itself from the first European attempt tomentally subvert, conquer and colonize it.

4] The African captives who were taken abroad and enslaved, and the Africans at home after the European conquest, having already been forcibly deprived of their autonomy, were in no political position toresist Christianization. Thus the Christianity still practised in allof the African American diaspora, just as that in the African homelandsince the start of the 20th century, continues to carry out theLeopoldian mandate.Hence, for example, whereas the White Born-Agains of the USA, when inthe US Navy ships in WWII, sang:


Praise the Lord,
and pass the ammunition.

the attitude of African Born-Againconverts today is best summed up as


Praise the Lord,
And lie down for the manna.

Thanks to a century or more of this Leopold-mandated missionary mindcontrol, African Christians are not an activist, self-helping, economically engaged, politically resolute, let alone militant bunch. Hence their putting up with all manner of mistreatment and exploitation by their misrulers, white and black. The most they aredisposed to do to their misrulers is to admonish them to Fear God as one protester’s miserable placard read in last weeks Lagos demonstration against the latest of the murderous fuel pricehikes by the OBJ Misgovernment. The idea of an uprising to tame their misrulers is alien to the religiously opiated frame of mind of the Nigerians.

5] The lesson in the contrast between an Africa that the Christian missionaries brainwashed and subverted, and a Japan where this brain washing and subversion was forcibly prevented, is stark and clear.


What then must Africans of today begin to do to save themselves from brainwashing by their White World enemies here on earth? That is the question
Re: Must Read! "the True Intentions Of Christian Missionaries In Africa" by jagunlabi(m): 12:52pm On Feb 14, 2009
And the mission was fantastically successful when looking at the present religious beliefs of africans today.It was a fantastic achievement on the part of the europeans.
Re: Must Read! "the True Intentions Of Christian Missionaries In Africa" by bawomolo(m): 6:52pm On Feb 14, 2009
But their Japanese counterparts probably did discern the game, evenwithout access to some version of Leopold’s letter. But even if theJapanese Shoguns did not intuit what Leopold makes explicit, theyclearly realized the danger of Japanese converts to Christianity forming a fifth column within Japanese society and state, a fifthcolumn loyal to their co-religionists in Europe. To rid Japan of thatdanger, in the late 16th century, the Shoguns began their expulsion ofPortuguese and Spanish missionaries on the grounds that they wereforcing Japanese to become Christian, teaching their disciples towreck temples, taking and trading slaves, etc. Then, in 1596, itbecame clear to the Japanese authorities that Christianization hadbeen a prelude to Spanish conquest of other lands; and it quicklydawned on them that a fifth column loyal to Rome and controlled by thepriests of a foreign religion was a clear and present danger to thesovereignty of a newly unified Japan. Soon after, the persecution andsuppression of Japanese Christians began. Early in the 17th century,sensing the danger from a creed that taught obedience to foreignpriests rather than the Japanese authorities, all missionaries wereordered to leave and all Japanese were ordered to register at theBuddhist temples. When Japanese Christians took part in a rebellion,foreign priests were executed, the Spanish were expelled and JapaneseChristians were forbidden to travel abroad. After another rebellion,largely by Christians, was put down, the Japanese Christians weresuppressed and their descendants were put under close statesurveillance for centuries thereafter. In the 1640s all Japanesesuspected of being Christians were ruthlessly exterminated. Thus didJapan, by 1650, save itself from the first European attempt tomentally subvert, conquer and colonize it.

this sounds horrific
Re: Must Read! "the True Intentions Of Christian Missionaries In Africa" by mantraa: 11:45pm On Feb 14, 2009
They fought to preserve their indigenous culture, their identity, their unity and their lives against the Europeans with their so called 'superior' religion of Christianity.

Look where Christianity has taken Africa now.

It's not too late for us to give it back to them, but first we need to release ourselves from the mental slavery that is Christianity and realise that we are not wretched sinners, needing to be saved. WE ARE FREE!!! and can save ourselves.

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