There is No Devil in Indigenous Afrikan Spirituality ( Without The Devil, There Is No Christianity)
Without the devil, there is no Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Neither sin nor the devil is native African concepts. ‘Devil’ as expounded by the alien unAfrican, anti-African and non-African Judeo-Christian &Islamic religions, does not exist in traditional African spirituality. We don’t condemn, much less demonize anyone who believes in the “the Devil” or even “the Devil” himself. One is free to believe in anything one wishes. The only case we make is, It’s NOT AFRICAN.
“African Religion doesn’t know a cosmic principle of evil like the devil in the Christian and Muslim faith.”Gregor Schmidt, MCCJ Contemporary Beliefs about Witches and Witchcraft in Kenya, p.3
“Within the African worldview, there is no concept of a devil that is in constant battle with God. Only through colonization and enslavement have Africans adopted such a notion, and in some instances, they have infused it into their own indigenous belief systems.” The African Concept of God,p. 6
Exonyms are what help fuel ignorance. Foreign people implanting foreign ideas on native peoples culture.
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/banning-exonyms
Interesting…
