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Essay / Things Are Falling Apart - The Clan Religion and the Christian Religion...
There are many differences between the Clan Religion and the Christian Religion. This is shown on pages 126-129, in the reference to the "one true god." The tribe and the missionaries have a different opinion on who this true god is. The clan has difficulty understanding Christian beliefs because they have lived isolated from outside influences. They have only known their own culture, which makes it difficult for them to adapt to the Christian way of life. When the missionaries arrived, they could barely understand the tribe. They understood very little about their culture, beliefs and rituals that the tribe admires. It seemed inept that they were willing to proclaim that the villagers' beliefs were false. “The missionary told them that they worshiped false gods, gods of wood and stone. » They could not even discern that this too was a thriving community, functioning well according to its method of divine law. The missionaries believed in an absolute god. This god was the “creator of the entire world and of all the men and women who inhabit the planet”. They deny...