tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post8157511998847750550..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Opening of the Afrrican SynodFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-46577851148549847952009-10-09T22:03:27.506+01:002009-10-09T22:03:27.506+01:00Imperialism was "responsible for despoliation...Imperialism was "responsible for despoliation, want, and hunger"? You really must discard your old Marxist textbooks on this question. There was no mythical pre-Imperialist African society which lacked these defects. They were mitigated by imperialism not caused by it. I can remember talking to old missionaries to Central Africa who could remember previous African society.Independenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08199774656279385253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-72216462583346045422009-10-07T16:00:35.534+01:002009-10-07T16:00:35.534+01:00All credit to the missionaries who must have had a...All credit to the missionaries who must have had a gargantuan task in preaching the Gospel to the native peoples of the colonies. Their imperialist overlords were hardly a shining example of Christianity in action.Crux Fidelishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949811845963570447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-31194082061374557962009-10-06T19:27:21.285+01:002009-10-06T19:27:21.285+01:00Crux Fidelis.I entirely agree.
Trouble is The Col...Crux Fidelis.I entirely agree.<br /><br />Trouble is The Colonial Imperialists have done a good job of brainwashing their own people.<br /><br />They still believe they were doing good for the peoples they exploited and plundered.India has got over it a bit but it will be some years yet before they recover from the likes of CLIVE.<br /><br />It will take Zimbabwe a lot longer to get over Cecil Rhodes.nickbrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803733028691380861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-16921410131768649442009-10-06T16:05:38.268+01:002009-10-06T16:05:38.268+01:00Schools and hospitals were provided, in the main, ...Schools and hospitals were provided, in the main, by missionaries not by British Imperialism. The roads, communications and civil service were put in place to support British Imperialism not the local populace. Imperialism, whether it be British, French, Dutch, Belgian or whatever was responsible for despoliation, want and hunger. Unfortunately, post-Imperialism the lot of the poor has not generally improved. The new masters have learned very well from their predecessors.Crux Fidelishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949811845963570447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-46332209193673900272009-10-05T21:54:05.011+01:002009-10-05T21:54:05.011+01:00How unfortunate that the educated middle class peo...How unfortunate that the educated middle class people who provided the rulers of post-colonial Africa repudiated the missionaries and looked to Western Secularism (usually in Marxist form) for an ideology. That indeed was toxic waste and the rulers imposed it on their own countries and used it to legitimate dictatorship.Independenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08199774656279385253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-27772326263062511252009-10-05T21:44:25.743+01:002009-10-05T21:44:25.743+01:00Missionaries, schools, roads, railway systems,comm...Missionaries, schools, roads, railway systems,communications, an incorrupt civil service, hospitals, are just a few of the benefits of British Imperialism. How unfortunate are those who never received these advantages.Independenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08199774656279385253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-49056879848920134202009-10-05T00:38:28.543+01:002009-10-05T00:38:28.543+01:00Dear Father Blake,
This story reminds me of a ...Dear Father Blake,<br /><br /> This story reminds me of a White Father's comment in the late 1930's when he was in Uganda. Roughly, from memory, he wrote "Europe seems to be the rejecting the graces which Africa is accepting". Seventy years later Europe seems to be much more dedicated to rejecting these graces.<br /><br />In Christo,<br />Anthony BidgoodAnthony Bidgoodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-31212411267209189822009-10-04T21:02:26.885+01:002009-10-04T21:02:26.885+01:00Africa will never be forgiven for getting rid of t...Africa will never be forgiven for getting rid of the plundering Imperialists.Now they have to rely on AID.They will never be allowed to stand on their own feet because the feet have been stolen from beneath them.<br /><br />Africa contains everything that the so-called FIRST WORLD cannot live without yet they are still considered useless and incapable of running their own countries.nickbrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803733028691380861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-24825089807630185042009-10-04T18:55:09.728+01:002009-10-04T18:55:09.728+01:00MP, HMQ is not relevant here.MP, HMQ is not relevant here.Fr Ray Blakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.com