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The Western World has been very influential in positive ways too and we have little reason to assume that non-Western influences would have been much more positive.
So on point!
I just don't believe Africa would have been a continent of peace, love and happiness if only the Western-Europeans had stayed out of it.
This is a bitter-sweet statement for me, but I absolutely agree. I did address this in this very thread and my comment about 'being NAIVE' about how wonderful AFrica was before slavery and how 'our ancestors' were sharing dancing and drums and such was interupted and we were robbed... I did make a statement along these very lines! LOL!
I just believe that people who are searching for god themselves have a better chance of becoming a good person than people who are just beeing part of the christian institutions and repeating and obeying their rules.
I agree.
a denomination is mostly an instution and just like or even more than other institutions they grow morally corrupt, become instruments of power and oppression and channels for hypocrisy, not just Western white christian denominations.
So true!
But not all sense of right and wrong from the New Testament has been successfully surpressed all the time and I just wanted to point out that for example the resistance against slavery in Europe was motivated by strong christian beliefs while the supporters of slavery usually had more 'practical' and earthly views and motivations.
I think it's only fair to look at christianity's inner values too,
Absolutely!
and not just at it's institutions in times and/or places when and where they were most morally corrupted. Also the white Western European christian institutions have shown a much nicer face the last century, unlike a large part of white American christianity.
Your words are so amazing.
Yes, about the gradual corruption of governments and 'religions' and such, coming from what I see in the Bible, around the AD 90s at the time of the Book of Revelations, it was brought even at this time at the set up of Christianity in the form of its' 7 Churches, that all was not perfect, even at that time with its Church followers. It was like, 6 out of the 7 Churches that were marked to have certain negative issues and so the Bible goes on to say, pretty much that after a certaint time, there would be a GREAT FALLING AWAY and soon the Church system will be removed from the earth anyway [ie. the voice of the Bridegroom & Bride] will be heard no more... So the issue of corruptions was already addressed in so many ways, but some people based their 'interpretation' on themselves, and may not realize they just are not well informed on script, as a whole. The Church was set up on a standard and was suppose to be 'A CONTINUAL WORK IN PROGRESS' but after the 3rd and 4th generations, due to a common human condition of how corruption seems to always overtake the beginning goodwill intentions, governments go through some type of historical overhaul.