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1. freeafrica4 · 1791035035 · focus · HN ↗

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   1. yohannesk · 1791035414 · focus · HN ↗

      That’s a reductive take. It assumes African Christians only hold their faith because of colonizers and denies us our own agency. Ethiopia, for example, adopted Christianity as a state religion in the 4th century, long before European colonization. Millions of Africans choose their faith consciously

      1. password54321 · 1791036352 · focus · HN ↗

         >It assumes African Christians only hold their faith because of colonizers and denies us our own agency.

         And they would be correct. Most people never "chose" their beliefs. It was systematically embedded by people who have had power over them.

         1. lovich · 1791036605 · focus · HN ↗

            You choose your religion on a daily basis or we wouldn’t see anyone ever convert from one to the other.

            People have agency.

            1. HappyPanacea · 1791037437 · focus · HN ↗

               Not everyone believe in religious freedom, and even those who in paper do might discriminate against those who convert

               1. lovich · 1791038683 · focus · HN ↗

                  Yea, and in the face of violence agency is reduced or neutralized but that doesn’t make saying that activities of colonial powers that ended decades before most living people in the region were born gets rid of agency a defensible argument.

                  And that’s before unraveling whatever the OP of this comment chain meant by Muslims and Christians are only fighting because of colonizers when Islam and Christianity were colonial ideologies in the first place with there emphasis on converting all of humanity.

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