Christianity in Africa
But my love for Africa and african people is rooted in my personal experience, working with them, getting to know them, understanding their story. And now I see on the news in 2024 that Nigerians, Christian Nigerians, are being massacred regularly. And let me repeat that it's african Christians that are being indiscriminately murdered in the 21st century
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 4:37
And so I did not raise my daughter with any religion, but I raised her to believe in God, in whatever her definition of it was, and told her not to judge other people for their religion and just to believe what she wanted to. I think that's up to the individual. But to go and tell people that they have to be converted to a certain religion, I think that's the source of so much conflict globally. And of course, I'm being simplistic
But I was in that country last year, and like I said, I saw a christian pastor and a muslim imam working on each other's churches. And what you have is the Africa. Whatever's going on in Africa, whatever groups are forming, whatever terrorist or guerrilla groups are forming, are using the faith of Islam as a means to massacre people. So it's bad and it's being encouraged. Know, I guess we're right back to the axis of evil
It, so I stand corrected. All right, well, I want to clarify this information about the Ethiopian Bible. So, it was believed to be written in 500 BC, but it predates the King James Version of the Bible. So there you go. Just information or food for thought
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 4:30
And she doesn't adapt to any religion at all. She said, nature is my religion. Keep in mind, she lived amongst the gorillas and the monkeys, and that was her life purpose. And she believed that was her life purpose. But she didn't ever adopt to any religion or following a particular person. She just believed in the divine, spiritual aspect of her life. And she knew she had a calling to do, which I'm very impressed with
But I'm hopeful. I'm hopeful for young people. I think it's happening now. I don't think there's so much animosity towards religion in general, but it really is only Christianity that's getting the one that's stopped, accused of doing all these atrocities, but Christianity as a whole, it's like, okay, Christianity is the church of Christ, but you're thinking of things that Catholics have done, Protestants have done. Yeah
Men need that example of God being masculine, God creating us in his own image, man him of doing whatever he can to get us back into the fold of heaven. And then sending himself as represent, like his own son, sacrificing his own son as a human being, as a perfect example of a sinless human born with very simple rules. Like I said, love your God, love yourself, love your neighbor
Susi Lawson
@susisouljourney · 4:50
So I don't know, and I think you're right that women are different. And I didn't realize how different we were until, as I've evolved in my life and noticed how men behave and how they think, and I'm not putting man down
We need a father to impress and live up to. And like you were saying, we also need the great mother because it's a father and a know. Maybe that's the missing link. Maybe just we haven't thought about. Maybe there's two creators, two lovers birthing children. I don't know. It's an interesting thought, isn't it? Something I celebrate in eastern philosophy with Venus. But maybe there's something to
Swell Team
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Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:32
But in other nations, other north african nations, where Muslim, where Islam is the predominant religion, and Christians are being persecuted for holding christian beliefs. Even countries in Asia, like in China and places like that, where you have people having underground Bible studies and can't carry a Bible publicly, or they will be persecuted, possibly jailed for publicly expressing their christian beliefs and publicly worshiping. These are the things that we don't consider in America because we become so insulated
A, this is a thing that I feel very strongly about. And like you said, it's not an Africa problem. It's a worldwide problem. And I'm worried that it's slowly going to. It seems like it's impossible for it to trickle into this country. But I think people get hung up on the term conversion, as if we're asking people that we ask people to change their lifestyles, but we know what it's like to accept Christ
I'm so happy that you're on here talking because I think we need a variety of voices, but we need a variety of compassionate, level headed voices that see materialism. And what you're describing, it's all the idol worship. That's all it is. And of course, God would be upset about this. I am disgusted