Posted on 09/23/2019 9:01:36 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
I was recently called eurocentric, in that I am a-okay with Christians hopping over to non-Christian countries and preaching the Really Good News of Jesus Christ. Now while I concede that many instances of said-preaching is eurocentric, the diehard association of the missionary Christian with the racist, swaggering, white man is moronic. First, it is no longer true that Europe is the center of world Christianity — that prize could equally go to the Americas or to Sub-Saharan Africa. If we must intrinsically link faith to a culture, then demographically speaking, it would be more accurate to call the pale, sunburnt missionary Afrocentric.
Of course we may say: “But African and South American faith came from Europe, from conquistadors, Jesuits and the white people in Things Fall Apart, so still, this Christian-mission stuff stinks of the rude imposition of European culture.” That is: Christianity is not derived demographically, but historically, and historically speaking, Christianity came from Europe.
But if the first argument was unrealistic in the present age, this one is racist in every age. To say that Christianity is eurocentric has the unfortunate consequence of arguing that all non-European Christians are only Christians insofar as they bow to Europe. To assert that the preaching of one is always domineering and inculturating implies that the conversion of the other is submissive, flaccid, weak — and even snivelling. This, and not Christian missionary work, is eurocentrism — the idea that Europeans may believe a certain creed, but non-Europeans cannot believe, they can only be tricked into “belief” by the powerful Europeans. This is racist — the vague notion that African Christianity is really European.
Europe did not give birth to Christianity...No one characterizes the Europeans who received Christianity from the Middle-Eastern apostles as being “inculturated." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at patheos.com ...
Your post reminded me of something. Last year I attended a meeting of the Committee for development of the European Parliament in which they were mainly discussing the rights of LGBT communities in African countries, some of which include homosexuality in their criminal codes. Now, we in most Western countries assume that people should be free to choose the life they prefer and prison seems to most of us somewhat disproportionate, We are tolerant, or at least we like to think we are.
Independently of that discussion, what I found very interesting was the answer of one of the delgates of one the said African countries. He said something like... "we used to be your colonies. you imposed on us your traditions, religion and values. we received them, but we are not anymore your colonies. You cannot impose your new beliefs on us just because we have kept the ones you brought in the first place". it would seem that Christianity is not the only eurocentrist ideology out there....
Thank You for the thread.
According to the chart, 25.9 percent of the world’s Christians are in Europe. Most of those are probably in Eastern Europe.
Winston Churchill:
“Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”
Europe had the weapons technology to keep Christianity alive.
Muslims have been trying to wipe it out since 622 A.D.
They got as far as Tours, France in 722, as recently as 1683 they were at the gates of Vienna, Austria.
Now they are just moving in and taking over.
Very interesting!
So true.
Read “The lost history of Christianity “ by Jenkins.
In the 9th century fully 60% of Christianity was in Asia and Africa, with Egypt and Iraq as majority Christian countries and Christianity spread as far as Mongolia and kerala
LOL...have these fools forgotten that Christianity originated in the “near East”, and proselytized Europe??
Just because the religion flourished in Europe and spread further across the world doesn’t make it “Eurocentric”.
I an a culturalist: I believe Western Civilization, overall, is superior to all others. And I believe that is why the globalist communists want to destroy it.
I further believe that Western Civilization as is/was would not exist without Biblical Christianity.
The vestiges - art, science, architecture, music - of Western Civilization still exist, physically, and philosophically, even if the European descendents of those Christians have abandoned their first love.
Those vestiges are what the Marxists and Muslims are united in their lust to destroy.
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