religion & being african
Technically, technically, I know Christianity was African before it was European. The Ethiopian Eunuch and North Africa and all that. I’ve yapped a lot to friends about the violent, colonial, white supremacist nature of Christianity, and not enough about how it was not always that way. Not all of Africa had it violently and bloodily imposed onto them.
This said, it was in fact violently and bloodily imposed onto MOST of Africa and MOST of the world by European colonizers. I feel like to ignore that aspect is intentionally daft at best and at worst, purposeful historical revisionism. Christianity has for most of its history been used as a colonial tool, hence it is a colonizer's tool. In some cases it was not, but in most cases it was.
It’s like the argument some people make for incest not being immoral, in a way. "Sometimes the people are the same age and didn't know each other existed or they were related until they had been dating for a while. That’s incest and it isn’t abusive or immoral," they say. "It’s not incest's fault," they say. But that’s one in every hundred million cases of incest. In most cases, it is incredibly abusive in almost every way.
Likewise, Christianity is not only a colonial religion, and it wasn’t always one, but it has been one for most of its existence and you cannot act as though it hasn’t been.
However, I do think people who are anti-religion just for the hell of it need to go watch Hazbin Hotel and leave the rest of us alone.