If you hear anyone saying that Christianity is a European religion just lovingly but firmly remind them of its place of origin in the Middle East (Jerusalem) and it is critical for Black Muslims and people in general to know that Islam was not the original faith of Africans. Christianity was introduced to Africa in all likelihood in the 1st century AD through the ‘Ethiopian Eunuch’ mentioned in Acts 8.27, an official in the Royal Court of what is now modern Sudan.
On Monday night (Feb. 16), during an interview with me on Drive Time Live (HOT 102 FM in Jamaica) about my new book Revelations on Ras Tafari, host June Hines joined Rasta poet Mutabaruka in expressing mild disgust with my use of Negro as a synonym for Black in the context of the discussion and more so my use of certain craniofacial features to describe who a Black person is….
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Over the last five hundred years, Christianity in Africa and in most countries with people of African ancestry, has been charged with outright racism (when non-Blacks headed the hierarchy within denominations) and with inverse racism (when Blacks headed the hierarchy within denominations). To these charges the Church has had to plead ‘guilty’ or ‘guilty with explanation’, not, regrettably, by its own volition but in response to external pressure….
The attached powerpoint presentation was done by me, Rev. Clinton Chisholm, in Barbados, in February, 2008 at a forum at the Cave Hill campus of UWI. The forum topic was, “Is African-Egyptian Religion the true Source of the Judaeo-Christian Faith?”
Saying yes were the late Dr. Ikael Tafari, Rastafarian scholar and Bro. Neter, leader of an African Religious group in Barbados….
Nazareth Decree[4] , believed to be issued by Claudius. ‘It is my pleasure that graves and tombs remain perpetually undisturbed…If, however, anyone charges that another has either demolished them, or has in any other way extracted the buried…or has displaced the sealing on other stones…In case of violation I desire that the offender be sentenced to capital punishment…’
Any analysis of the Easter story from a New Testament perspective must grapple with 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians is almost universally accepted as written by Paul about AD 55/56 and therefore earlier than Acts and some, if not all, of the Gospels. From the details of Acts 18:12, which mentions Paul in Corinth…