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[QUOTE]Originally posted by AncientGebts: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by AncientGebts: [qb] [QUOTE]Originally posted by the lioness,: [qb]I read that Dr. M. Y. Nabofa was a devout "Christian of the Anglican Communion" It doesn't seem like he would be saying the Bible is fake [/qb][/qb][/QUOTE]He wrote that it was the church that claimed African religion was a fake one "without convincing them of the truth of Christianity." The points he made in criticism of what he understood about Bible religion were... 1. "Before... missionary activities[beginning in Africa as early as the 1500s], African religion [lived] as an absolute truth and undisputed belief... " 2. "The church taught the Africans that their religion was a false one without convincing them of the truth of Christianity" 3. "The missionaries failed to understand that African traditional religion reaches far beyond the rational and intellectual sphere..." 4. "They failed to understand also that the traditional African religion is a life to be lived rather than obeying dogmatic laws which are in themselves burdens." "As Idowu succinctly put it 'Where a religion becomes cramped with the framework of dogma and thus becomes a law to be obeyed and not a life to be lived, such religion has become an aberration, it ceases, in fact, to be religion, and thus has become a mere system, a yoke upon the neck'" Therefore, it is Christianity Dr. Nabofa is saying is an "aberration" and "a mere system" by quoting Idowu. What people do not understand about continental Africans who practice Bible religions, is that they do it on a part time basis. Their Ancestors still form the foundation of their daily life and spirituality, before and after church and the synagogue on Sunday. Africans in general have never given up the belief in their Ancestors. What claiming Bible religion does do for Africans is allow them to do business with the West. Because the West wants to do business with Christians, just as Arabs want to do business with Muslims. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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