Dave Hunt reads a newspaper account of Pope John Paul II in Africa, seeking common…
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Dave Hunt reads a newspaper account of Pope John Paul II in Africa, seeking common ground with voodoo believers and suggesting they would not betray their traditional faith by converting to Christianity.
On the second day of that pilgrimage he met the priests of Vodun. He told them that just as they draw on their ancestors, Christians revere theirs. The priests, the paper said, warmly welcomed him.
Hunt sets that next to Lovemore Mbigi: there is very little difference between Christianity and our Afrocentric religion. The audience gasped at the book. Hunt’s point is that the Pope’s wording lands in the same place.
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