high-powered Christian evangelical organizations doing Africa

[donsu]

http://www.mediatransparency.com/story.php?storyID=102

Paul Bonicelli/USAID: The rest of the story
A number of high-powered Christian evangelical organizations have set up shop in Africa, aiming to transform the continent one small country at a time. USAID's Paul Bonicelli may help fast track these projects


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Several high-powered U.S.-based Christian evangelical organizations are not only following developments in Africa, but they are making news. Some of these groups view the small countries of Africa as a Petri Dish for religious and social transformation.

Evangelicals' evangelizing is not surprising. However, the fact that many of these groups have teamed up with -- and are receiving significant support from -- the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (website), is worth paying attention to.

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In a posting titled "Christian Imperialism: Update #1" (December 21, 2005) Herescope maintained that Bonicelli's appointment "is a key development because USAID has been a major player in the 'transformation' of the African continent."

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The Bonicelli "appointment to USAID, coming out of the political dominionist sect, means that there will likely be even more financial payoffs for the corporate/mission structures that are being put into place," Herescope concluded.

(For more information see "The Second Reformation", published in the July/August issue of Discernment Newsletter, "which details how these corporate/mission partnerships are working with USAID.")
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look, the bushmilhousegang wants the oil, gas, gold, diamonds, etc. of Africa and if they can use the religiously insane to help do that, they will

[DBoon]

1. Dominionists using Africa as a lab

for their theocratic experiements.

Appointing someone from Patrick Henry College to USAID is really, really scary.

[noonwitch]

2. Catholics and mainline protestants have been there for centuries

Providing food, water, medical services, and educational programs to Africa's poor. Mega churches suddenly start to care and they get a government contract. Go and figure.

[donsu]

3. it's because the mega churches are members of the

bushmilhousegang and are in Africa not to help but to exploit

[Dob Bole]

4. yeah...

Though it really depends. There's no reason to believe that African evangelicals are right-wingers like many of ours...we are the only country with a religious right as such. On the other hand, any Christian that Bush appoints is going to be dependably right-wing.

[Cats Against Frist]

5. Isn't Christianity a big part of how they got so fucked up, already?

Imperialism obviously is, but I was thinking that there is already a lot of Christian-Muslim and Christian-tribal unrest, over in Africa. How can introducing a rigid, constructed theory which separates human beings into the "saved" and the "unsaved," help a continent expressly known for its genocide and sectarian conflict??????

[ladjf]

6. The Christian Evangelists are like Roman army followers.

They follow the military into any area that has been "pacified" and set up their nefarious operations on the backs of the weakened and helpless citizenry. That's why the religious right adores the military so much. It's not about self-protection. It's about dominating the rest of the world. Let the corporate fascists do the industrial exploitation while the evangelists take over the minds and souls of the desperate in order to gain world dominations. The military and the church are partners in the quest for world dominations.