Tuesday, September 22, 2009

FYI

Someone recently loaned me a book entitled, "Men Without God, A study of the impact of the Christian message in the north of Uganda".  It was written in 1966 by J. K. Russell who appears to have been the Anglican Bishop in Northern Uganda during that period.   It has been for me an interesting read.  But unless you live here and have some of the quirky interests I have, I'm not making a recommendation.  Nevertheless, in it I came across the following testimony from an Acholi and thought you might like to know the source of all your misery: "At the time when God made man, he gave him all the fruits of the earth to eat: millet both for white men and black men.  Afterwards they separated from one another, and the white men refused to eat the black men's food.  Instead they began to eat the fruit of which God said "You shall not eat".  For this reason, God became angry and said "Because you have eaten of this fruit which I forbade you, you shall die."  And so death came into the world because of the white men"  ... thought you would want to know.

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