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The first religious statues were black on every continent

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DNA shows that we “the people” were everywhere first!! Not just going from status but with bodies and artifacts. Tools, clothing… I’m not saying that everyone is right but there is more truth then myth. That's not exactly how it works. While humanity came from us, we were moving around for thousands upon thousands of years in different climates. In those climates we changed. We no longer looked like ourselves over thousands of years. It would basically be like saying that all humans today are black.. Which technically is true.. But we don't see that that way at all. ALL lands, waters and stars in the heavens are named for BLACK ancestors. Whites practice black science, religion, astrology, speak native languages etc. The acceptance of the whites in Europe caused us to be minority in those lands. Because they spread diseases that we had no immunity too. The Original gods of Europe are ÆTHIOPIAN Zeus(Father)= RA(creator) and his son Apollo! as surviving Europeans ...

Globalized Africa spirituality

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  'The dominant globalism of the nineteenth century was colonialism with its dynamics as the conquest, commerce, and sometimes civilization (mission)' (Myers 2017:56). In this section, globalization and its influence will be discussed with a focus on Africa from the perspectives of Myers (2017) in his book,   Engaging globalization . Globalization  is known as colonialism in the third world for several centuries and is even today seen 'as a globalization by a minority' (Myers 2017:40). Bosch (1991:305-306) reflects on the relationship between colonialism and mission, quoting statements such as: 'To colonize is to missionize', and referring to the three 'C's' of colonialism, namely Christianity, commerce and civilization. It is clear that, within our previously stated understanding of spirituality, we may speak of globalization as a form of spirituality to be found also in the specific context of Africa. Many white and black people in Southern Africa ...

An understanding of spirituality

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  Some scientists view Africa as the mother continent of the entire world's people. Africa has a very rich heritage of what previous generations of African people thought, did, experienced and passed on to their children. However, this heritage is not uniform. Mbiti (1991:4-10) describes the heritage under the following three headings: firstly, historical heritage - where he describes African life in general; secondly, the cultural heritage - the way people act and live as well as their physical and intellectual achievements; and thirdly, he refers to religious heritage. He indicates that religious heritage may also be viewed as culture. According to the researcher, these three distinctions are so closely related that it can be captured under the umbrella term   spirituality . Spirituality is not always religious but is always concerned with the quest for meaning of life. When such a quest involves an explicit reference to God or the Divine, then that spirituality is religious...