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White Missionaries come across oceans, teach native people about a holy book and a holy religion and that thei rown native religion and theology is wrong and centuries later the native people are spitting back the brain washed material like it is truth.

Quite by accident. Missionaries surely regretted planting the seed (the bible) that would lead to the people being free from them.

There are unexplained forces in this world. Some of the smartest people on Earth including Einstein acknowledge this. HOWEVER it is NOT explained by the bible. The bible certainly has nuggets of useful information about and certain moral truths that are applicable in a secular society. But when it comes to explaining spirituality and divine forces it is a joke.

This would only make sense if the Bible was a book that set out to explain such things. In fact the bible is a book that sets out to explain the rules for human beings connecting with God and connecting with other humans.

Its first section is based on Judaism and outdated Jewish law (a HUGE section in the Old testament) and creation story based on earlier Pagan and nativist religions including aspects from Greek mythology and its second section is on a self proclaimed prophet and his disciples discrepant recollections of the said prophet with writings infused by Roman authoritarians at the time.

The bible is very redundant thus it has avoided you being able to miss the point despite shenanigans by others.

Lest we forget, the Old testament was used to justify Eureopean slavery, as the Jews had slaves and they had laws governing the treatment and fair use of those slaves. Next time time the next round of imperialists come crashing through your borders do not be suprised if they use the great Bible to justify their oppression.

The making of money was also used to justify European slavery, but I never see people come out against money with the idea that it was too connected to European slavery to be acceptable.

For anyone to hold up the bible or the quran and proclaim it is the be all and end all of life is an idiot. For anyone to hold the belief that evolution is th end all and be all of the origins of organisms is equally an idiot.

Anyone holding up their view of religious people as the be all and end all of religious people, has not been paying attention.

Evolution is a THEORY. Its not a Scientific fact or law. its a theory. A very good one that seems to explain alot of events that occur in organisms such as why genetic mutations occur for example. But ofcourse it doesnt address several things such as the driving force behind such said mutations. It is a known fact that a single human cell kept alive for years does not spontaneously mutate (and as such what caused and drove the evolution of unicellular organisms to multicellular is not known). But Science evolves as well.

Scientific theory's do not work like other theory's, evolution can not be so easily dismissed because it is a theory. A lot of the parts to evolution are of course pure garbage (we do not come from monkeys) but a lot of other parts are just regular science that evolutionists like to label part of Toe.

Anyone who doesnt believe that there is an unknown driving force behind this almostly infinetely complex world is an idiot. But you are a bigger idiot if you think the bible even addresses it sufficiently or is the end all and be all of explaining this unknown mysterious force. I hold Christianity on the same plane and level as Greek mythology, Judiasm and the plethora of native religions that where killed off by Christian Missionaries and those that still exist today.

Good luck with that.

Seeker,

Beautiful link. The second link reflects standard teaching about Colonial Africa. Nobody and certainly not the colonial forces, was trying to help any African country make a proper transition to power.

He merely called these Nigerians clerks, typists and African staff, without mentioning their names. Maybe, he did not think that it is important to know their names and mention these in his autobiography, in the way that he did to each and every European staff that he worked with, or even came across. The truth is that the closest Nigerians to Harold Smith were his household servants, whose names he knew and mentioned them in his autobiography.

This is how the Colonial powers saw Africans, as household servants.

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When we are feeling far from God:

Psa 143:3-4 For the enemy has pursued my soul; he has beaten my life down to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, as those long dead. And my spirit has fainted within me; my heart has become weary within me.

We should think about what He has done for us in the past:

Psa 143:5 I remember the days of old; I think on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands.

Don't be so sure that the bible does not teach evolution.

Remember Charles Darwin was a trained theologian. When you read the bible carefully, you can almost see where he stole his ideas from.

Almost everything in the bible has a worldly imitation.

There is biblical numerology and then there is worldly numerology.

Well, God performs miracles through pastors and others.

Saturday

Skylolyng,

If the church was marrying them or allowing them in the church as a couple.

No.

However if it is just a regular homosexual who is doing as everyone else should be fighting sin to the blood.

Yes.

I say forgive him also. What about the situtation though that some famous African American rappers have faced.

The father shows back up, after the kid becomes rich and famous?

Alarinjo,

Even in America they had to adapt to the cheap Chinese goods. However we consider stuff to be disposable more than to be kept forever. We change every thing all the time. We change even big items like cars, furniture etc, rather frequently.

CA's may not view it as so easy to keep rebuying a cheap item over and over again.

Kazey,

I think the Chinese indifference to African politics could be a big help to African economies.

Alarinjo,

Please accept my apology. I did not mean to butcher your name. I apologize.

Kazey,

Cute.

Nigeria is ranked the second worst country in the world. The lifestyle of any of your neighbors like Ghana is better than the lifestyle of Nigerians. You don't have to look to Asia to find people living better than Nigerians.

Your argument was that British Colonization helped those who stayed colonized longer.

My response was Colonialization dollars do not tell the whole story.

Alanrinjo,

Your right just because I think you are walking death, doesn't mean that I can not make money off you.

It was kinda of sad that the machetes used to kill the people in Rwanda were bought for 15 cents each from China but the Chinese just sell the weapons, they did not make the war. Their not at fault for what Africans do with what they sell to them.

As I said earlier, economically, the Chinese are trying to connect with third world countries. So this is their non-political policy with Africa.

Enigma67,

I also have scotland, england, arab countries and many more countries where Africans are sometimes being physically attacked because the people think Africans are bringing them AIDS.

Just let me know, buddy and their all yours.

I know why some Africans might prefer the Disney Channel.

The world has moved on from the exploitative relationships that was the hallmark of the kind of alliance that Africa had with the West or that the United Stats has with other countries.

Enigma67,

What disney channel are some Africans watching?

I want to watch that channel. The rest of us live in the real world.

Where exploitation of Africa has never stopped.

By the way, would you now like to see the stories of how Russians are starting to really hate Africans bringing them AIDS (or so they think)?

We might as well get this out of the way now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1524720.stm

Then we can all go back to the Disney Channel and pretend that everything is A-OK for Africans in this world.

Enigma67,

No. I did not say it was true that the Africans were infecting the Chinese with Aids.

I talked about the fear of Africans infecting Chinese with AIDS.

The Chinese have been attacking African students in China for quite a long time. It is quite famous:

Go here to read about it.

The Nanjing Anti-African protests were mass demonstrations and riots against African students in Nanjing, China, which lasted from December 1988, to the following January.

As well as resentment about the larger stipends given to African students, hostility from Chinese students towards Africans also flared up when there was contact between African men and Chinese women. In an incident in Shanghai in 1979, African students were attacked after playing loud music and consorting with Chinese women. These clashes became more common during the 1980s and sometimes led to arrests and deportations of African students. Cultural differences in dating habits added to the tensions - whereas Chinese students were expected to know each other for some time before dating, African students often asked strangers to date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Anti-African_protests


Here is a direct story about the connection between the riots and their fear of African students having AIDS

Negative images of foreign sexuality, to a lesser extent, have contributed to the racialization of encounters between African and Chinese students, and have played a role in the spread of collective anxieties about STDs (Dikötter 1997). On popular levels, the myth of 'international syphilis' (guoji meidu) has contrasted the pure blood of Chinese people to the polluted blood of outsiders, said to have become immune to syphilis after centuries of sexual promiscuity. Official discourse and popular culture have also explained AIDS as an evil from abroad, and prostitutes who offered their service to foreigners were singled out for severe punishment in the late 1980s. This official line of thought elicited a law on the mandatory testing of all foreign residents; African students in particular have been singled out for the AIDS test.

http://cio.ceu.hu/courses/CIO/modules/Module08Dikoetter/print.html

Please while your Japanese friend is here answering that question, maybe he can explain quality of life in Japan with all their money!



Living in holes all week because they work such long hours, it is not feasible to go home for a few hours.

https://i3.tinypic.com/15cjyhg.jpg



Have him explain why 600 people take their life every week in Japan:

Japan's suicide rate highest among industrialized countries.

Source: Knight Ridder Washington Bureau (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

Publication Date: 17-JAN-03
Byline: Michael Zielenziger

TOKYO _ Japanese are committing suicide in record numbers.

Nearly 600 die by their own hands each week, and every year, three times as many Japanese hang themselves, hurl themselves in front of speeding commuter trains or kill themselves in other ways as die in automobile accidents.

"Suicide is the single biggest health-care issue in Japan today," said Yukio Saito, a Lutheran minister who runs Japan's largest suicide-prevention hot line. Japan's suicide rate, he said, is three times higher than America's; the World Health Organization ranks it the highest among industrialized countries.

The rise in suicides,

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/comsite5/bin/pdinventory.pl?pdlanding=1&referid=2930&purchase_type=ITM&item_id=0286-8163178&word=Japans_Suicide_Rate



Then of course have him explain why Japanese people no longer want to have babies or go on existing, why they are dying off:

“A nation requires a certain scale in the population to continue its momentum, but in Japan, we are confronting a serious combination of a low birthrate and an aging nation,” deputy director of Japan's Education Ministry Kota Murase said. “Our pension system is already being tested to its limits. And with fewer young people in society, the question is: How are we going to sustain the elderly and the nation's future? We don't have a clear answer yet.”

In the past 10 years, the Post explains that 90 theme parks aimed at children have disappeared, while the number of hospitals in Japan with pediatric wings decreased from 4,119 in 1990 to 3,473 in 2000. [b]In addition, 70 percent of young women have no interest in marriage. [/b]In Japan, married women traditionally stay home to raise children. Some towns have even offered cash incentives for couples to have a baby.


Kazey,

Have you ever read Plato's: The Allegory of the Cave?

It's a most famous part of his book "the republic" and it talks about when people first come out of the cave(Village in Africa let us say), of course the SUNLIGHT DAZZLES THEM (material things) but the sun also BLINDS THEM (they can not see problems).

Be careful of jumping up and declaring money GOD.

Money God demands Blood sacrifices just like every God in the world. You got to be willing to pay those blood sacrifices.

That is my only point. Money is fine in Japan and Hong Kong but they paid in the BLOOD and continue to pay in the BLOOD for the money God.