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gist | Follow Category: None December 09, 2012 - 15:02 PST | Last Edited: December 09, 2012 - 15:02 PST 2 714

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Quote from Desmond Tutu :

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

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ShazdeAsdolaMirza | Follow | 13 years ago

Oh ya?

Tell this to those who have not seen the savagery of the black-on-black situation, after the missionaries left!

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Mrm123 | Follow | 13 years ago

But of course there was no savagery in the Christian lands, no WWI or WWII or inquisition or massacres of indiginous peoples of the Americas, the Jews, etc.

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