The poisonous myth that Christianity is a “white man’s religion” is not only historically inaccurate—it is a gross distortion of truth, born from colonial arrogance and sustained by willful ignorance. This narrative, often regurgitated by the misinformed and echoed by those desperately clinging to anti-Western sentiments, must be shattered. Christianity did not begin in Europe, nor was it the invention of a white mind. It is neither colonial property nor cultural appropriation. It is, in fact, the most global faith ever known—birthed in the dusty, sun-scorched lands of the Middle East, nurtured in the ancient soils of Africa and Asia, long before Europe ever lifted its guilt-ridden crucifix.
Let’s confront the ugly hypocrisy: yes, white slave owners once clung to the Bible with one hand while shackling Black bodies with the other. But does the presence of counterfeit currency negate the existence of real money? Their perversion of Scripture was not Christianity—it was bigotry in a bishop’s robe, a demonic manipulation of divine truth. To judge Christianity based on its abusers is intellectual laziness and spiritual suicide. Blaming Christ for colonialism is like blaming fire for arson. The atrocities committed under the banner of Christianity were not committed in its name, but against everything it actually teaches.
The first Christians were not white. They were not European. They did not speak English, French, or Spanish. They were Semitic, swarthy, sun-darkened people—ancestors of today’s Jews and Arabs. Long before the cathedrals of Rome echoed with Latin hymns, Christianity had taken root in Ethiopia, Alexandria, and Antioch. Africa, particularly North and East Africa, played a monumental role in shaping Christian theology and defending the faith during its formative centuries. The likes of Tertullian, Athanasius, and Augustine—towering African intellects—built the very foundation of Christian orthodoxy. To suggest Christianity is a white man’s religion is to spit in the face of these fathers of the faith and erase Africa’s sacred legacy.
It is Islam, not Christianity, that conquered African lands with the sword. It was Islamic expansionism that steamrolled over ancient Christian civilisations in Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia. It was not Christians who erased African churches—it was the arrival of the Islamic caliphates that extinguished what had long flourished as vibrant Christian communities.
Those who reject Christianity because it was allegedly “used by the white man” to enslave Africans must answer one question: What about the Africans who accepted it freely—centuries before the first European ship ever touched African soil? Were they brainwashed? Were they colonised too? Or were they simply convicted by a message that transcended skin and tribe?
Christianity is not about pigmentation, colonisation, or political domination. It is a spiritual revolution that dismantles every barrier built by man—racial, tribal, gender, or cultural. It is not a white man’s religion. It is every man’s invitation to truth. Denying that is not just foolish. It is tragically self-deceptive.
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