Anti-colonailism is making major gains in places like Hawaii, Africa, and other places around the world. The Colonialists are being depicted as caravans that created everything from slavery to the most inhumane conditions in history. Part of this is funded and fueled by campaign called Globalism, a twist of word, being globally minded isn't wrong, but to harness rancor for the whites and to say colonialists are the devil actually is slight on the Church. When the Colonialists conquered the world via The British Empire, they brought in bowels of their ships the Gospel. Places like Burma, Canada, Cyprus, Egypt, India, Nigeria Africa, , and many other nations that had the Gospel arrived in early days of the Apostles (see Christianity is Cross Cultural post), were reinforced with bastion of Christianity, granted imperialist as it was presented. While I don't quite like the adage, "God is an Englishmen," [Actually God is a Hebrew, Jesus is Son of Abraham and Jesus is God who created Abraham see Matthew 1:1, John 8:48-59]. I want to present this thought, entire tribes and peoples, particularly in bush of Africa and poor regions of India had the Gospel come to them, as well as commerce and jobs. Poor Indians who were outcasts like The Untouchables became paid servants of British, and their families were able to survive famine thanks to English grain.
I am not saying Colonialists are innocent of wrong doing, or that there isn't error to find in some of their methods. Every period of history has its skeletons and bad chapters, and often we either take romantic or realist (pessimistic) view of entire centuries and millennium on the whim of historians and historical epics. One person can convince us that Ivan the Terrible was really not so terrible and beloved by all Russians, while another paints demonic character of Dante Inferno. What Colonialists did was pave the way for Gospel in more recent centuries. The Apostles like the Apostle Paul had laid the ground work for churches long ago, but the Protestant Colonial Missionaries risked life, limb, and their families to reach what the empire called "heathens". Protestant Missions really grew in this 1800s and beyond. Protestant Missionaries had to play catch up with the Roman Catholic evangelists known as Jesuits (Society of Jesus) had dared to venture into the bush to bring the Message to masses of tribesmen and agricultural families.
Colonialism is majorly under attack because the Progressive and Post Modern machine wants to attack Christianity. They want to make a case for the dark chapters of Colonialism while never showing the good chapters. It would be like us taking glimpse of Middle Ages and calling it as period of war, pestilence, and ignorance; instead of Renaissance of Sciences, Architectural wonders like Cathedrals, and innovations in both weapons and transportation (Susan Wise Bauer, The History of Renaissance World: From Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople). It is easy for the liberal scholars to attack the Church through lens and proxy of Colonialism, citing that both the Church and Colonialism are symbiotic, and thus the Church is as guilty as Colonialism; and yet these same naysayers of the Colonialists will praise the Communist movements of the Marx Brothers, and the tree that created tyranny across Asia and Europe, one notable example being The Third Reich. Colonialism isn't perfect, but it did create God Fearing nation: The United States of America, and because of it the Gospel did stretch across the globe. The Thirteen Colonies that revolted in 1776 were established by Colonials, and so to attack Colonialism is also an attack on the U.S.A.
Think of it like this, would it have been better for tribesman to never heard Gospel and gone to hell, or to be part of Colonialism and encounter Christ and go to heaven (John 6:40)? Perhaps that is one of questions and chapters of Colonialism we should venture further into, while not forgetting anything man does is imperfect and prone to scrutiny in hindsight.
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