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What is wearing the name of Christianity in parts of Africa and India has no resemblance to what people in America call Christianity.
There are probably many reasons behind it but the result is a level of Fundamentalism and Sola Scriptura that numbs the senses.
Some of the signs that something went astray was evident in Joseph Kony and the "Lord's Resistance Army" HERE They believe they are following the Bible and they are true Christians.
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The Lord’s Resistance Army began life in the early 1980’s as the Holy Spirit Movement, led by a woman called Alice Lakwena who claimed the Holy Spirit had ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan government, which was accused of treating the Acholi people of the North unfairly. As resentment towards the Ugandan government intensified, supporters flocked to Lakwena and the Holy Spirit movement gathered momentum, until a battle won by the government led to Lakwena’s exile.
With no clear direction for the movement, a man claiming to be Lakwena’s cousin, Joseph Kony, took over as leader and rebranded the movement in 1986 as the Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony initially stated that the LRA’s mission was to overthrow the government and rule Uganda based on the Ten Commandments. He rapidly lost support, however, and in frustration Kony began abducting thousands of children to swell its ranks, turning them into killers and unleashing them on villages.
As bad as the LRA is/was the actions of the various Pastors and Ministers throughout Africa is much worse. Happenings such as in the OP and much worse are what is passing for Christianity in much of Africa.
Just 2 instances. for more everybody here is capable of doing online searches.
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Evangelical pastors are helping to create a terrible new campaign of violence against young Nigerians. Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the preachers make money out of the fear of their parents and their communities
A story of an estimated 15,000 children in Africa's Niger Delta being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families.Two-and-a-half-year-old Ellin is one such child. Found at the side of the road, her body having been severely burnt with boiling water. Nwanakwo, eight years old, had acid poured over him after being labeled a wizard, and later died.
All of these people do believe they are Christians and doing what the Bible commands them to do.
The point being there is an atrocity spreading in Africa and calling itself Christianity. Sadly the followers seem to actually believe they are pious Christians.
Woodrow LI,
I hope you are not intimating that some cults who consider themselves "Christian" represent all of Christianity.
Jim Jones gave poisoned Kool Aid to his parishioners. Does that mean all churches do this? Jim Jones had a drug problem. Does this mean all Christians have a drug problem?
I just don't know where this is going, why it is even being brought up, what it even has to do with the OP.
Woodrow LI,
I hope you are not intimating that some cults who consider themselves "Christian" represent all of Christianity.
Jim Jones gave poisoned Kool Aid to his parishioners. Does that mean all churches do this? Jim Jones had a drug problem. Does this mean all Christians have a drug problem?
I just don't know where this is going, why it is even being brought up, what it even has to do with the OP.
I think my post very clearly shows I do not consider them to be Christians.
My purpose of the post was to show the Pastor in the OP is not a representative of Christianity. there are many people committing Atrocities in the name of Christianity but they represent only them selves.
Read the first and last sentences.
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What is wearing the name of Christianity in parts of Africa and India has no resemblance to what people in America call Christianity.
The point being there is an atrocity spreading in Africa and calling itself Christianity. Sadly the followers seem to actually believe they are pious Christians.
And you believe that he is? Isn't that circular reasoning?
No, I don't believe he is, he is just one of the three professions that makes their living with their mouth, prostitutes, politicians and preachers.
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