How Africans Were Fooled By Foreign Religions

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[zaratgreen]

“When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.” ― Jomo Kenyatta

[yungyusuke]

Finally someone has the guts to talk about this. It seems people only talk about the good things abrahamic religions did for Africans, but always seem to gloss over all the bad that abrahamic religions have done for Africans.

[grapeshot]

So happy I got off the religious plantation a long time ago, absolutely no regrets.

[draco_]

I’m agnostic and I fully agree. The fact that Africans and Afro descendant people can’t seem to realize that Islam and Christianity played a role in the destruction of the continent is crazy

[damacx]

This is the unfortunate truth, I wish traditional African religions would write down their knowledge in a book, to make it easier for native/ diasporan Africans to learn more about our ancestral practices, in a more pragmatic manner to fit today’s time.

[osz]

As a practitioner of Santeria (Yoruba faith in Cuba🇨🇺), my heart is broken every time I think our brothers in the motherland have been fooled by Western religions and forgotten the roots that we now celebrate. I hope Ìṣẹ̀ṣe tradition will one day return to the prestige it deserves. Aché for my Yoruba and African brothers and sisters 🕊️❤️

[igweogba]

A foreigner can never be your brother. In Africa I am even frightened of my relatives let alone a total stranger.

[ULTRACERTIFIED]

🙋🏾‍♂️ No Religion that was introduced to Native, Indigenous Africans has had any Net Benefit...

[LapidaryPoet]

Your opening line from the jump says it all. "Africans became just as pious and faithful as any other, yet when it came to the idea of religious brotherhood there always seemed to be a disconnect. This ambivalence unfortunately revealed a darker side demonstrating how religious nations at times didn't PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACHED"

Keep on sharing what you have been finding, as we continue to share what we are learning!!!

[kuroazrem]

I don't think it was just capitalism. Racism and a sentiment of supremacy (whether Arab or European) played a role in considering the black Africans as inferior to them. In the case of Arabs, this predates Islam, but became more prominent as the religion expanded (and it wasn't only against blacks, but generally against non-Arabs, but blacks were often treated the worst). And what it worse, this continues to happen to this day.

[stNpuist]

Correction: How Africans allow themselves to be fooled?

[bobcosmic]

They took our concepts flipped it perverted it and threw us the okey doke, we caught it and then ran with it 🤦🏾‍♂

[Tranquilpharmacist]

What's crazy is I had this conversation with different age groups of AA'S the other day and another time with West Indians not long before and boy was it enlightening. I just wanna say a lot of our people are aware...and it warms my soul.

[isiahjean-baptiste]

A major problem black people have is that too many of us are unaware of how blessed we are and that other people want what we naturally have. This is because humans are more aware of what they don't have as opposed to what they do have.

[dolla]

Has there ever been anyone who has come from outside of Africa and not saw it as an opportunity to exploit its people? I'm not necessarily preaching xenophobia but not gatekeeping has proven to be historically catastrophic

[MrMetro-mtqv]

It is crazy how religion can become ethnicity.

[shaylabrabham]

In those times, the goal wasn’t to only conquer the land, but to also convert the ppl. It was a common practices throughout history. Those who did not convert were beaten or killed. For survival many ppl converted and overtime our own rituals were lost.

[SLRok]

Probably one of our biggest downfalls is that we are far too magical.

[BatmanRules]

In the case of both Morocco and Portugal, their leaders were driven by profit and greed. It's very telling that these ideas of morality, religion, and brotherhood can always be overridden by our basic human instincts to survive. And that during these time periods, the kingdoms of Africa never held such ambitions that the imperialists far north of them did. Perhaps it was because they never had to. And that is what left them, not unlike most of the world, unguarded and unprepared for the modern era.