Disadvantages Of Faith Based Organizations

FBOs I’ll get this out of the way, I personally dislike the concept of Faith Based Organizations (FBOs) for multiple reasons. First, because of the role western religions historically had in regard to African culture and colonization. Secondly, because of the premise of FBOs and what they say about human nature. Finally, because of my own personal aversions towards faith and religion. I believe religion should be a personal pursuit, every great religious war and act of terror was due to people feeling entitled to disseminate their personal beliefs onto others. I believe religion is coping mechanism for the unpredictability of the world we live in, and helps us to navigate the near infinite risks and possibilities of daily living. But, it is inherently individualistic because when it comes to religion, monotheistic religions at …show more content…
Many missionaries and Faith Based Organizations believe that salvation is the key to saving the African peoples and that they’re the agents of god to cause that salvation. Historically, missionaries were key to the colonization of Africa, they were the bulldozers of African culture that made Africa habitable for colonial law. Missions demonized indigenous African cultures, beliefs, and religions, and made them pliable for western norms and views. Missions and convents sought to modernize the African man but, simultaneously used to bible to justify slavery and the plight of Africans with such rhetoric as the “Children of Ham”. Till this day many Africans reject their own culture and history in lieu of romanticized Christianized history, and much of discourse on Africa by Africans are damned with the archaic norms deposited by these missionaries. Africa is not naturally homophobic, misogynistic, and narrow-minded, but now the continent is clinging onto archaic Christian norms like it’s the only thing it has because after the 400 year gap, it is the only thing the continent