The Bible and Anti-Colonialism

I'm currently reading the book "The Roots of Obama's Rage," by Dinesh D'Souza, in which he explains the modern movement against the Colonialization of the world by the white people. This racist anti-white teaching (which is what it really all boils down to), is known as "Anti-Colonialism," and is what caused Obama's father to fight the British in his day. It also caused the U.N. to intervene on many occasions and help many countries overthrow the foreign rule of Belguim, the Dutch, the English, the German, and the French in the continent of Africa.

Now, as a Christian, I'm not in favor of how the colonization was most often inacted, for it usually was brought about by military actions and the senseless slaughter of countless thousands of Africans. Nor am I in favor of the brutal beatings and horrible treatment often accompanied by Colonial reign. But I can't help but see how colonization of Africa eventually helped that continent grow in a civilized way, and it eventually led to the Gospel being spread far and wide within that country. Sure it's an awful thing for foreign people to overtake your land and occupy it, but it's a great thing when they bring with them prosperity and a unifying tongue (like English which is spoken all throughout that continent).

But the thing I don't hear many people speaking about is what the Bible says about the Colonializationism, (for he prophecied it would take place by white people thousands of years before it began). They further don't desire to speak at all about the colonization of the United States of America and how slaves were brought there from Africa. Why did these things happen, and what does the Bible tell us about it?

For the answer, we need to go to the book Genesis. And we must trace back the origin of the races. There we find Noah had three sons: Japeth, Shem, and Ham. Japeth was the white man or the Caucasion. He populated Europe. Shem was the Asiatic, who went east and populated Asia. And Ham was the negroid, who went South and populated Africa.

All this can clearly be seen from the Bible. With this in mind, let's look at the prophecy of what would happen with these races from the book of Genesis:

Gen 9:25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Gen 9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Gen 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

Here we read of God cursing Canaan, the son of Ham, and telling him he would be a servant (a slave) unto his brethren. We then read of Shem becoming blessed of God (interestingly enough the JEWS come from Shem, and to be against the Jews, you are called "Anti-Semetic".) Finally, we are told in the Bible that Japheth or the white man would dwell in the tents of Shem. (This is exactly what happened when America was colonized by the white man, who took the land away from the Indians, who by the way have their ancestry from Shem).

So according to the Bible, God said Colonization was to take place, and God allowed the white man to do it. Did the white man do it the right way? Obviously not. Oftentimes slaves were mistreated, and indians were lied to and slaughtered, a great mark against the European white man. And for this reason, he's still greatly hated by other races and countries today.

But if you know your history, and your bible, you'll see that there are two kinds of people. Those who are lost and those who are saved. And, as we look back through time we see most often it was those who were lost that were those taking advantage of others such as the blacks and Indians. Not all white people were bad. For history clearly shows us many whites who cared about those of other races, and their souls, and wanted not to deceive them, but give them the truth. David Brainerd is a great example of a man who went to the Indians with the Gospel of Christ Jesus. David Livingstone was a great evangelist in Africa. And there are many others.

But as we look at history today, we find this is completely forgotten, and all white people are demonized, and made out to be the conqueroring bad guys who pillaged and plundered!

Because of this teaching today, there is a giant surge in the movement of "Anti-Colonialism," in which people with hatred and malice blame the white man for all their problems, and are turning against him, sometimes even threatening "revolutions" and seeking "reparations."

But what does the Bible say about this? Are we to hold the children guilty for the sins of their fathers? Most certainly not. For in the Bible we read:

Deu 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

Of course this verse is speaking of a sin worthy of death, or of capital punishment. But it proves that we should not punish people today for the sins of their forefathers. If someone's grandaddy did something wrong to my grandaddy, I should not hold that against them. For it was not me that did it. It was the individual who did, and it's something that's over and done with, and should be forgotten.

Sure bad things have happened all over the world. But we should not resurrect the past in order to allow it to make us angry and hateful and vengeful.

Now back to Dinesh D'souza's book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage," it appears, if Dinesh is right about Obama's motives, that this is exactly what Obama is trying to do. He wants to try to undo the past by "redistributing the wealth," that he feels Japhethites has taken from others in his many colonial conquests.

But should we not rather deal with the present instead of druding up the past? Shouldn't we lay aside bitterness and anger and deal with things the way they are today instead of trying to make it into the way we think it should have been?

It doesn't matter what race you are or how or where you were raised. What matters is that you don't let hatred and racism control your actions. And we can't tell others that if they are a certain race or color then they must pay others of another race and color because of something their ancestors did. Let everyman stand or fall based upon his own actions, and not those of his forefathers.