Christianity Is Not A White Man's Religion

I'm never for the narrative that Christianity is a white man's religion.

Christianity dates back before we would start discussions on race, Christianity dates back when it was earlier practiced in cush modern day Ethiopia. It was also known in Egypt and areas of Mesopotamia. So, to say Christianity is a white man's religion is to be ignorant of facts. Christianity was introduced to them just as it was introduced to us by them, what they were taught is what they came to teach. To them, Christianity was a form of belonging, a believe in a supernatural being. I want to believe it was a coincidence that when Christianity was at peak in their countries, is when they were planing of to divide and possess Africa. So, as they came to Africa, they had to assimilate us, and one thing we had to convert into Christianity. It was a tool that was used by men who knew nothing about what to be a Christian is.

It is my belief that, some colonizers took the subject of slaves to be biblical it being mentioned in the Bible, that made them feel superior as the masters they were. What happened then is what is happening these days in neocolinialism, where people are oppressed using the same Christianity, fake pastors carrying out extortion on their members, financially, sexually etc. Christianity has many times been a vehicle used by ill mannered people to push their agenda. There are however those in the colonial day who professed Christianity that sought to do good such as to abolish slave trade, the likes of Wilberforce et al. What do we say about these people ? The one's who built soo many hospitals and Churches which were very integral in African’s history. If we are to say Christianity is a white man's religion, we should also say literacy is a white man's thing and that it deserves criticism as Christianity does. We can't blame Christianity, we need to blame the people who used it for their advantage.

We also claim that Africa was doing great before the white man introduced Christianity, that Africans were traditionalist. True to it, but have we ever thought of the dark sides of traditionism? The practices of FGM, early marriages, full thrust patriarchy just to mention a few that bite us to this day. Tradition as our identity was key and our sense of belonging, and balance was needed. A person who knows this would stand for balance. It is true that some of the white men wanted to erode our culture, and at some extent we resisted something we should celebrate. I think our task would not be to discredit everything brought by the white man,but to be vigilant at choosing what was useful for Africans and what was not, just as Africans were supposed to choose from their traditional practice what was good for them and what was not.