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Why did the Dutch reformed church in south africa condone and support the cruel system of Apartheid?
And why did it take almost 300 years for christian churches worldwide to finally speak out against the dutch reformed church of south africa and severing links with it ?
Apartheid was only around from 1948 onwards.
Churches started speaking out about slavery in the 1700's but the concept of racial prejudice as something bad is fairly modern. Look at movies from the 1940's for example. blacks were generally portrayed as simple folk who needed a firm hand.
In South Africa the Dutch Reformed Church was and maybe still is very much old testament orientated. In the OT laws, beliefs and concepts are very different from the NT, but in both time periods, slavery was common.
The Bible is people's interpretation and memory of what God said or Jesus said as well as historical commentary and the sayings of prophets and disciples. You can find and interpret comments to justify almost anything somewhere or other in the bible. The DRC allowed a religion to be built on the very narrow interpretation of very small fragments and put less emphasis on some of the major bits like love thy neighbour. However others have been guilty of the same thing and not just in Christianity, Muslim extremists do just the same.
Why did the world not stand up? Well the world council of churches did and had nothing to do with the DRC. Governments didn't largely because of the cold war. SA was the source of strategic minerals and fought communism in a number of countries.
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