Radical Anthropology on Nostr: Well done the Bishop of Croydon. £1 billion still a 💧 in the ocean tho And this ...
Well done the Bishop of Croydon.
£1 billion still a 💧 in the ocean tho
And this bit is important, and needs to come across all xtian denominations:-
'the report’s call for the C of E to apologise for “seeking to destroy diverse African traditional belief systems”. Mallett said: “What we’re talking about is the way in which a western Christian understanding of faith was imposed on African people, and it was a Christianity that othered them and delineated them as subhuman. The understanding of western Christianity was that anything African was uncivilised, unacceptable and needed to be basically decimated, destroyed.”
#reparations #CofE #apology
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/bishop-of-croydon-as-a-windrush-child-i-was-rocked-by-racism-in-the-uk
£1 billion still a 💧 in the ocean tho
And this bit is important, and needs to come across all xtian denominations:-
'the report’s call for the C of E to apologise for “seeking to destroy diverse African traditional belief systems”. Mallett said: “What we’re talking about is the way in which a western Christian understanding of faith was imposed on African people, and it was a Christianity that othered them and delineated them as subhuman. The understanding of western Christianity was that anything African was uncivilised, unacceptable and needed to be basically decimated, destroyed.”
#reparations #CofE #apology
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/11/bishop-of-croydon-as-a-windrush-child-i-was-rocked-by-racism-in-the-uk