How do Christian missionaries explain this?

[Anonymous]

[NamerOfStars]

My guess would be with logic and a healthy disdain for historical revisionism: missionaries don't take land and enslave people; that's the province of kings and presidents. It wasn't the Anglican Church that drove the conquest of Kenya; it was plain old English Imperialism. Nor was it ANY Church that drove the lead-up to the Pontiac War, but plain old biological reality: if your enemy has no real idea of a "limited war", you don't start a fight if you're not willing and able to exterminate them. It's like saying that the Tengri faith was responsible for the Mongol conquests, or that the devastation of Japan in WW2 was the result of American Protestantism (which would be darkly hilarious, in light of the history of Christianity in Japan).

It's an understandable mistake, and it's true that religious proselytizing has been used as a means of acclimating a people you intend to conquer to your culture, but saying that that it's main function ignores the fact that before the rise of evangelistic monotheistic faiths, the usual way of doing things was to move in, strike with overwhelming force, kill most of the population and enslave everyone else, doing your best to annihilate their culture outright. It's looking at the cause of the enemy's mercy and calling it the cause of their cruelty.

[nawtee_me]

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jomo-Kenyatta

There is more to this story and that picture is in it but no where is that quote that I saw.

Kenyatta was born as Kamau, son of Ngengi, at Ichaweri, southwest of Mount Kenya in the East African highlands. His father was a leader of a small Kikuyu agricultural settlement. About age 10 Kamau became seriously ill with jigger infections in his feet and one leg, and he underwent successful surgery at a newly established Church of Scotland mission. This was his initial contact with Europeans. Fascinated with what he had seen during his recuperation, Kamau ran away from home to become a resident pupil at the mission. He studied the Bible, English, mathematics, and carpentry and paid his fees by working as a houseboy and cook for a European settler. In August 1914 he was baptized with the name Johnstone Kamau. He was one of the earliest of the Kikuyu to leave the confines of his own culture. And, like many others, Kamau soon left the mission life for the urban attractions of Nairobi.

Chief Pontiac as far as I can tell never made that quote either. I searched the photo and only came up with photo caption where you add pics and captions to create what you want.

[DaisyOpal]

Those missionaries actually had a very superficial idea of salvation, in my opinion. We Christians believe God created humans with free will. So no one can be forced to believe. People who try end up going psycho.

[karaspara]

No idea never met one strange though that most Africans are far more religious than there white counterparts not disagreeing with your original post but an observation none the less

[PositiveNote]

That is a really good question. I've always wondered how it came to be generally acceptable.

Truth is, slavery wasn't general acceptable. Not everyone believed that some races are superior to other races. There were LOTS of differing opinions in this country before, during and after the War Between the States.

Truth is: Even Jesus was not "white," and many of the Hebrew patriarchs married or had children with women from African tribes. Abraham had children with Hagar and Keturah both from African (Hamitic) tribes. Moses married Zippora, who was Ethiopian. Jacob had children with two handmaidens from African tribes, and these children became the patriarchs of two tribes of Israel.

The real answer to your question is that those who follow Christ including missionaries also follow his command to, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations..."

[ChefPapiChulo]

There's probably no way to explain it. They fucked up in how they treated the native people in these areas. But i'd probably still be in Mexico being sacrificed to the Gods for my blood. It's horrible what happened, but Western society has some benefits compared to what indigenous people were doing.

I enjoy having rights, and being mostly safe.

[ChrisMaster69]

While Kenyatta was a great president, that statement really came back to haunt him, it was used against him and his family who had done their own land grab from other tribes in Kenya.

[BeMuse]

Those look like some dumbass minorities because clearly militaristic force conquered them with superior strategy and technology.

[jshm2]

Bring'in the faith to 'derm 'ethens! ," as Cotton Mather would have said.

[Ms_Vanderquack]

They don’t they just act like nothing happened.

[Anonymous]

sorry there is a dome above the earth
so those words are invalid

https://www.youtube.com/embed/LMr6Qb0_5kM

[Diodoro]

Let's go back in time and talk to them

[John_Doesnt]

Gay Jesus offends Christians for some reason.

[Recurrence]

Manifest Destiny or some bullshit like that

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Both stupid quotes.