Selam Gemena
Thank you for the response. These days some dehayers are defecting and
runing away from issues cliaming that the issue is " Too Senstive" to
talk. In my opinion, there is no such a "Senstive" issue that would
prevent to intellectual people from discusing.
Again I thank you and I appreciate for your courage.
Bro Michael Zeccarias
On Thu, 1 May 1997 LBeachy957@AOL.COM wrote:
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> In a message dated 4/29/97 8:45:58 PM, mzeccar@TIGER.LSUISS.OCS.LSU.EDU
> (Michael Zeccarias) wrote:
>
> <<As the people of Africa, as a people of "Black" race, should you have to
> defend the above mentioned religions? Why?
> >>
>
> Selam Michael,
>
> Christianity was an "African" religion long before it ever came to any
> European country. It spread from the Middle East and North Africa as far
> south as Ethiopia, possibly farther south, to Europe.
>
> One of the greatest theologians in the Protestant church was Augustine, an
> African from the 2nd century AD. He has had a greater influence on Christian
> theology than almost anyone else. He has been to Christian theology what
> Plato and Socrates have been to philosophy.
>
> The Christianity you see today tends to have a Western face on it which leads
> many to assume it is western. It actually originates from the Middle East,
> from Palastine. People tend to put their own cultural layer on their beliefs.
>
> hawKa,
>
> Gemena
>
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