Reply #4: In 1994, the most Christianised country in Africa was .... [View All]

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... Rwanda!

Plucky little Rwanda's long and happy history under the ministrations of Belgian Christian missionaries had made it the most uniformly Christian and devout countries in Africa, with a highly organised church infrastructure.

That didn't stop millions of people launching the most extraordinary and brutally effective genocide in history, an orgy of slaughter where neighbour killed neighbour at a far greater rate than the Nazis ever achieved. Something like a million people were killed in just 30 days, with nothing more sophisticated than machetes and spears.

The silence of the Rwandan church is a noted part of this awful affair.

A little fact bomb to throw in that kind of conversation.