Thread by @blackrepublican

A Middle-Eastern #refugee - named Jesus - who fled state sanctioned violence will be remembered tomorrow.

#justsaying #reasonfortheseason

‘Get up, take the child, and flee to Egypt, until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’

Flee to Africa.

The Libertarian Revised Version of the Holy Scriptures: Jesus wasn’t a refugee.

Jesus’s family was fleeing big government and tax increases.

Your politics shouldn’t dictate scripture

Was Jesus a refugee?

Israelites in peril made their way to Egypt many times in the biblical record.

uscatholic.org/articles/20170…

“#Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of Christianity were explored and understood in Africa before they were in Europe.”

amazon.com/Africa-Shaped-…

Pre-Trans Atlantic Slave trade - African converts to the Christian faith, Augustine of Hippo, and Afonso I ruler of Kongo!

Cyprian, and Augustine.

Saints Perpetua and Felicity and Saint Maurice (as well as his military regiment), early martyrs, were also African."

cbeinternational.org/resource/artic…

"There have also been three African popes: Victor I, Melchaides (also a martyr), and Gelasius I.The vast majority of these Patristic-era figures resided in North Africa, where various Christian communities thrived until the Muslim conquests of the region."

Before The Congo: Black Christianity in Africa

"There were multiple early Christian kingdoms in Africa, the most of notable of which emergedin Ethiopia (then Aksum). Around this same era, however, there were also three Nubian Christian kingdoms, ...

... all of which were conquered and left little trace of their former glory; scholars have since recovered some of their history.

Due to the Chalcedonian Schism in the 5th century, however, most of this Eastern (African) Christianity became divorced from Catholicism very early on.

Many ethnicities/culture nfluenced what we refer to as "Christianity" - not just white people! An example: St. Augustine.

“Have you forgotten that you are an AFRICAN, writing to AFRICANS, and that both of us live in Africa!”

— St. Augustine of Hippo

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

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

― Frederick Douglass

Ancient Nubia Now: Panel Discussion"