| Church finally rejects apartheid [boodskap #18319] |
Fri, 16 October 1998 00:00  |
Josh Arinze
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Can you beat this? For years and years, these so-called Christians were
teaching their
children in Sunday school that God designed black people to be inferior
to whites, that blacks
are a cursed race; that the Scriptures support racism. Now that
apartheid has been defeated,
they have suddenly realized that the system they were propping up was
sinful. Maybe they
only just received their first print run of an authentic new version of
the Holy Bible. Hypocritical bastards!
Dutch Reformed Church Rejects Apartheid
October 14, 1998
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's Dutch Reformed
Church, which for
decades sanctioned the country's hated apartheid ideology, has denounced
white rule as ''sinful'' and
announced that it was considering integrating with a large black church
group.
At its national meeting in Pretoria Tuesday, an event which is held
every four years, church officials
adopted a resolution rejecting apartheid.
''It was wrong and sinful, not simply in its effects and operations but
in its fundamental nature,'' the
resolution stated. ''The theological justification (of apartheid) is a
travesty of the gospel and, in its
persistent disobedience to the word of God, a theological heresy.''
By finally laying its demons to rest, the church has complied with the
requirement of the World
Alliance of Reformed Churches for the lifting of its suspension.
The Alliance suspended the membership of the church in 1982 because of
its justification of
apartheid.
Although there was consensus on the formal apology of the church's
theology, there was resistance
to the proposal that the church should unite with the United Reformed
Church, its black counterpart.
Copyright © 1998 Panafrican News Agency. All Rights
Reserved.
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| Re: Church finally rejects apartheid [boodskap #18409 is 'n antwoord op boodskap #18319] |
Mon, 19 October 1998 00:00  |
Errol Back-Cunningham
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:49:51 -0700, Josh Arinze wrote:
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|Can you beat this? For years and years, these so-called Christians were
|teaching their
My ouers was en is baie wonderlike down-to-earth Christene....
|children in Sunday school that God designed black people to be inferior
|to whites,
..ons sondagskool was nie wonderlik nie, maar hierdie is 'n snot
suigery - ons is nooit so iets geleer nie...
| that blacks
|are a cursed race; that the Scriptures support racism.
..nog minder is ons iets soos hierdie geleer. Volgens my het die kerk
waaraan ek behoort het, op gemeentevlak, die job vir elke lidmaat om
sy eie gewete te ondersoek. Maar ek verwerp dit geheel en al dat die
kerk globaal namens almal verskoning vra vir iets wat nie gedoen is
nie.
Johan
Vat dit rustig, dan geniet jy die lewe meer ....!
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