Gun and the Bible

THE BIBLE AND THE GUN


The Bible and the Gun film is an interesting film about British missionaries and settlers that went to Africa after slavery ended in the nineteenth century. Slavery robbed Africa of tens of thousands of its people. Before slavery, the African people were viewed as equals by others that interacted with them. It seems that racism grew directly out of slavery. Whites began to think of slaves as less than them. This became the normal way of thinking and they began to believe that they were better than Africans. When the missionaries and colonists arrived in Africa after the Trans Atlantic slave trade ended, they brought that attitude with them. They thought they were superior to the natives and in their minds, they came to convert the uncivilized, downtrodden, and spiritually ignorant Africans. African traditional religions were to be destroyed.
The missionaries felt it was necessary to rid the African people of their traditional beliefs and ...