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To: NRx

If some N00b Christian African comes around “Missionarying”
at me, I’ll laugh in his face. My people have been Christian
for a thousand years and more and don’t need lectured by some
immigrant who eats grasshoppers.


6 posted on 08/16/2015 2:08:21 PM PDT by humblegunner (NOW with even more AWESOMENESS)
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To: humblegunner; Biggirl
The Christian Church in Africa began when Simon of Cyrene (Libya) was drafted by the Romans to help Jesus carry his cross. The Gospels indicate that at first he was just a didn't want to, but in Mark an added comment is made of his being the father of Alexander and Rufus, who are evidently notable men in the church. So Simon evidently sparked the evangelism project with Libyans, with historic results at least in his own family. The next fruitful contact with Africa was in the Book of Acts, where Philip is impelled by the Spirit to preach to an key official from the Candace (queen) of Ethiopia. This had BIG results, because by 43 AD St. Mark found a very willing reception there and became the first bishop of the Church of Ethiopia. It is one of the oldest continuously=existing Christian communities in the world.

I don't know who your ancestors are not anything about their cuisine or their theology as of 43 AD, but my own German ancestors were probably roasting rats on pointed sticks at the time, and worshipping Thor and his criminal consorts and colleagues.

At present, a number of German Catholic prelates are worshipping the Zeitgeist, as they so often have --- while the African Catholic Bishops are staunchly defending Natural and Sacramental marriage and defying the Devil and all his perverted sex-show NGO's.

So if some Christian African comes around “Missionarying” at me, I'll get a good seat where I can savor every word.

My FRiend, you come sit by me.

10 posted on 08/16/2015 3:37:17 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("In Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others." Romans 12:5)
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To: humblegunner

FYI...American pioneers ate grasshoppers.

Africans eat flying ants and caterpillers.

Pinoys eat duck embyos and crickets.


22 posted on 08/16/2015 10:44:37 PM PDT by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: humblegunner

What if this African Christian is from Ethiopia? His people have been Christian for 2 thousand years...


23 posted on 08/17/2015 5:39:37 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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