THE BIBLE IS NOT THE WHITE MAN’S CHAIN — IT IS AFRICA’S CROWN

 

 Preamble:

 The darkness of the new Pagan hatred in African is spreading quite fast, courtesy of the market square of unruly social media.

In the marketplace of unruly social media, I heard an angry pan-Africanist declaring with much bitterness via a video:

 The only reason the white man still lives among us and smiles is because of the Bible he brought — the Bible that says ‘Thou shalt not kill.’ Were it not for that, we would have thrown him into the idea ocean for his oppression! (A paraphrase)

In this we hear the echo of a soul wounded by injustice, yet blinded by vengeance.

He sees the crimes of the colonizer, but not the difference between the Cross and the crown of the apostate empire. 

He mistakes the Faith that saves for the fraud that enslaved.

 The True and the False “Missionary”

It must be said plainly: many of the so-called Protestant missionaries who came to Africa did not come as apostles, but as agents of the apostate empire.

• They entered with the trader and the soldier, building schools that mocked Catholic Rome, and preaching a Christianity stripped of Sacraments, Priesthood, and the Cross.
• They baptized tribes into division, not unity;
• They taught the Bible without the Church, and then handed the baptized man to the colonizer’s factory or regiment.

Thus, Christianity was confused with colonization, and the African still bears the wound of that counterfeit gospel.

It must be reiterated that:

“Outside the Church there is no salvation, because the Church is the body of Christ, and whosoever separates from it is not united to the Head.” — Pope Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi (1943)

As a matter of fact, the Church — the true Catholic Church — had already brought the Gospel to Africa centuries before the colonizers were born.

•  St. Mark who preached in Egypt, 
• St. Augustine sanctified Numidia, 
• St. Cyprian governed Carthage, and
•  The Martyrs of Uganda shed blood for Christ, not for an apostate empire.

The Eternal Law in Every Heart

With a purely naturalist and tribal spirit and,  judging history, justice, and morality by race and earthly vengeance, the angry pan-Africanist misconstrues the command “Thou shalt not kill” to be an invention of Europe. Oh, no! It is not the invention of skeeming apostate colonizers; it is the echo of God’s own voice in every human soul.

“The Gentiles who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law.” (Romans 2:14)

The Pan-Africanist who says, “The Bible forbids us to avenge ourselves,” unwittingly bears witness to a profound truth: the law of Christ alone prevents the oppressed from becoming oppressors in turn.

 Vengeance may satisfy a wound of pride, but it cannot heal the soul of a people. 

To kill for vengeance would not restore Africa’s dignity — it would corrupt her spirit, chaining her once more, not to foreign masters, but to the tyranny of hatred.

True liberation is not wrought by the sword, but by the Cross. It is the meek, not the vengeful, who shall inherit the earth. When Africa forgives in the strength of Christ, she rises higher than her conquerors; she becomes not the avenger of her past, but the herald of a redeemed future.

The True Civilizer of Africa

• The Church came not with the cannon, but with the Crucifix;
• not to enslave, but to baptize and teach.

Wherever the Catholic missionary built a chapel, he also built a school, a clinic, and a refuge.

“No one is to be reduced to slavery or deprived of liberty because of unbelief.” — Pope Paul III, Sublimis Deus (1537)  

“It is not lawful for Christians to reduce to servitude, sell, or exchange human beings as if they were chattels.”— Gregory XVI, In Supremo Apostolatus (1839)

These papal voices thundered against the injustice of the age.

The true missionary often stood between the African and his oppressor, defending the dignity of the native as a child of God, and often suffered death with the natives.

If many Europeans ignored those papal commands, it was because they had ceased to be Catholic in spirit and had become worldly men with Bibles in their pockets but no faith in their hearts.

Africa’s Saints Are Her True Heroes

Africa’s greatness lies not in the vengeance of warriors but in the sanctity of her saints:

St. Augustine and St. Monica of Hippo, St. Cyprian of Carthage, the martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, St. Benedict the Moor — all witnesses that holiness, not hatred, crowns a people.

 

“In Christ Jesus there is neither Jew nor Greek, bond nor free, for all are one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28)

It was not the apostate empire that made Africa noble, but the Faith of Christ that transformed her heart as it did to other pagan nations. The Empire left chains and wounds; the Faith sowed virtue, hope, and sanctity. It was the Church, not the conqueror, that made Africa maternal in compassion, steadfast in suffering, and fertile in grace.

 From the blood of her martyrs and the humility of her saints sprang a nobility the world could never bestow — the nobility of souls redeemed by the Cross.

Vengeance Is the Devil’s Freedom

The angry voice cries, “We will be free when we have avenged ourselves.” But vengeance is not freedom — it is the devil’s counterfeit of justice, a poisoned draught that burns the lips and blackens the soul. It gives the heart a moment’s fire and an eternity of ashes. 

True freedom is born not of hatred but of truth and grace. The Cross, not the sword, breaks the real chains — for only the love of Christ can turn the slave into a son, and the oppressed into a saint.

“Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”(Romans 12:21)

The African who hates because he was hated becomes a slave again — this time of sin.

But the African who forgives in the strength of Christ becomes a king in the Kingdom of Heaven.

The False Liberation and the True

History has proved that independence without grace only breeds new chains.

Look at nations freed by sword but not by Christ — they crumble under greed, pride, and corruption.

“If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36)

The freedom of Africa will not come through hatred of the white man, nor through imitation of the pagan European whose empire has fallen into unbelief. Her liberty will not be born of rebellion or revenge, but of return to the Cross, the Rosary, and the altar of the Mass of Ages. 

Neither the counterfeit Christianities of her colonizers, nor the darkness of ancestral superstition, can heal her soul. Only the Faith once delivered to the saints — pure, sacrificial, and eternal — can make Africa truly free: free in truth, noble in virtue, and radiant in grace.

The Catholic Answer to the New Paganism

• To the pan-Africanist error that the Bible is a white man’s chain, we must respond that the Bible is God’s Word, Africa’s crown.
• To the pan-Africanist error that “Thou shalt not kill” is a colonial trick, we must respond that  it is the voice of God written in man’s heart.
• To the error that Protestant missions brought Christianity, we must respond that Catholicism brought the true Faith long before the apostate English empire was born.
• To the pan-Africanist error that freedom means vengeance, we must insist that true freedom means victory over sin.
• To the pan-Africanist error that "race defines man",  We must respond that it is grace which defines man.

A Call to True African Nobility

To each African, theses words must be addressed: 

• do not despise the Gospel because false men abused it.
• Do not hate the Cross because the colonizer misused its name.
• The counterfeit missionary used Scripture to sanctify greed; but the true priest of Christ used it to sanctify souls.

 “The Church… gathers together men of every race and tongue, bringing them into the one Kingdom of Christ.” — Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge (1937)

Africans must rise, then, 

• not with rifles but with rosaries;
• not to spill blood, but to defend the True Faith;
• not in hatred of races, but in adoration of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Summing Up

• The white man who oppressed his black brother, and continues to oppress him still,  sinned and sins against the Cross.
• The black man who would avenge himself sins likewise.
• But the Christian — white or black — who forgives, prays, and teaches truth, that man reigns with Christ.

Let the children of Africa learn to proclaim over and over again:

 “Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!”

Christ conquers! Christ reigns! Christ commands!

Yes, the true civilization of Africa can only be under the Kingship of Christ the King from which detracts the both the institutionalized counterfeit Christianity (in all it's species) and black vengeance of Pan-Africanism.