Thread by @blackrepublican

The Black Church vs.The White Church

The story of a church birthed fourth out of the wildfires of an apostasy called #whitesupremacy, a church that becomes the oldest Western institution opposed to racism in the entire world: #TheBlackChurch

#BlackChurchesMatter

Coming...

"As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are TODAY."

Genesis 50:20

Lex iniusta non est lex (English: An unjust law is no law at all), is a standard legal maxim. Originating with (the African) St. Augustine, the motto was used by St. Thomas Aquinas and quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement.

“Until Haiti spoke… no Christian nation had abolished slavery.

Until she spoke… the slave trade was sanctioned by all the Christian nations of the world...

Until #Haiti spoke, the church was silent and the pulpit dumb.”

- Frederick Douglass, 1893
re: The Haitian Revolution

"White Preaching" during the American chattel slave system.

“White preaching often emphasized Biblical stipulations that slaves should accept their places and try to behave well toward their masters.”

#TheBlackChurch

Christianity in Africa

"Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early 2nd century AD. The Christian communities in North Africa were among the earliest in the world."

bbc.co.uk/worldservice/a…

Ancient Nubia: The Kushites and The Bible World

Pharaoh Taharqa: The Black Pharaoh Who Saved #Israel & Solomon's Temple

“At sixteen the boy pharaoh was called by the Hebrews for help, he led his armies against the Assyrians defeating them.”

eurweb.com/2016/03/black-…

Learn more about the black Pharaoh Taharqa (mentioned in the Bible) who rescued Israel.

Biblical references: (2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9).

jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14403…

The Black Queen in the New Testament.

“Toward the end of the Book of Acts, Philip converts an #Ethiopian eunuch to Christianity. He described as “a court official of “Candace”, queen of the Ethiopians” and as being “in charge of all her treasure” (Acts 8:27).”

“Interestingly, the eunuch is also said to have traveled to Jerusalem in order to worship there. While there are plenty of questions raised by the eunuch’s presence in the text, I felt more intrigued by those concerning the queen he served.”

"It is most likely that the “Candace” in question, then, was a woman called Amanitore, whose reign began around the year 1 BCE and ended in an unknown year. She is buried in a pyramid at Meroe."

everturningteachings.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/on-…

The above information is important to the upcoming thread because it shows Africa's early ties with the new religion -- Christianity. It shows that it was not racist, and very multicultural.

The Black Church vs.The White Church

Out of the wildfires of an APOSTASY -- heresy - rooted in #whitesupremacy, a church is born that later becomes the oldest Western institution opposed to racism in the world: #TheBlackChurch

#BlackChurchesMatter

Coming... New Years Day

The Black Church: Fighting White Supremacy since like forever. And, still no signs of cracking.

.Kirk Franklin - Love Theory



#TheBlackChurch

“For, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference."

― Frederick Douglass

“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!”

— Jesus

Founder of “The Way” but later referred to as “Christianity”.