[lbo-talk] labels (was: Arguments for a Secular America (Was : 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Bill:


> True as far as it goes. But the missionaries did not just
coincidentally arrive with the
> colonial authorities. 

Wrong premise.  They often arrived _before_ the European colonial rule
was established, at least in East Africa.

Another thing: they often tried to subvert the colonial rule of the
other colonial power cf. European missionaries opposing Arab-run slave
trade in East Africa or English missionaries opposing the treatment of
Africans by the Dutch in South Africa.

Wojtek