MISSIONARIES AND IMPERIALISM

CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES

AND EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

GRIM REALITIES BEHIND

SELF RIGHTEOUS CLAIMS

In 1492, a ruthless 500 year war was launched by white Christians against a good part of the rest of the world. It was the bloodiest campaign of imperialism and genocide in history. It created the largest and most brutal slave trade in history. It also set in motion today's global environmental crisis, which might very well end a good part of life on earth. So this was not a very positive development.

By 1914, Western Christian forces had seized control of almost all of the planet. Two countries, however, had been able to fight back and maintain their freedom, Japan and Ethiopia. Our study of this reveals a very interesting fact. These are countries that expelled Christian missionaries in the 17th century and didn't let them back in until late in the 19th century. The missionary movement has served as a tool of imperialism. That is a fact. And we thought it relevant to point this fact out in analyzing history. People point out that Ethiopia, unlike Japan, is a Christian country. But the fact remains they didn't want Western European Christianity. They wanted their own version of Christianity. So this is a highly relevant point to know why they were able to protect their freedom.

In the case of China, the white Christian European powers forced the Chinese to accept drugs peddled by Western drug dealers and to accept Christian missionaries. The opium and missionaries were bad news for China, but the missionaries were worse because the missionaries introduced religious instability in China, culminating in one of the most bizarre and bloody events in world history. This was the so-called Taiping rebellion, where a lunatic who claimed he was related to Jesus set up a huge political cult and started a war which ended up killing 30 million people. This severely weakened China's ability to stand up to the West and protect itself.

So these are historical facts that should be investigated further, but we just wanted to put them out in the historical record.

We are certainly not saying that all missionaries were bad. Many were very sincere people.

However, they served a grim and evil agenda. the destruction of other religions and cultures. They served an agenda of imperialism. Missionary societies were often financed by business interests who sought to plunder Africa.

After the end of the Cold War a new form of economic imperialism was imposed on parts of Africa. America set up a force of military imperialism called Africom. Many US evangelists campaigned across Africa promoting the persecution of gays and attacks on native African cultures.

However, the tide is turning. American imperiallism is collapsing from within. Revolutionary forces are rising up in America and Africa.

Remember the words of Jomo Kenyatta "When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible, and they had the land."

PRIMEVAL AFRICA

A WORLD OF WONDER

BEFORE THE ARRIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY