Tribute Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) and South African Black Theology
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2022-01
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[At the beginning of his crusade and struggle against the apartheid system and white minority racist government and ideology in South Africa, the late
Archbishop Tutu observed: “I want to declare categorically that I believe
apartheid to be evil and immoral, and therefore, unchristian. No theologian I
know would be prepared to say that the apartheid system is consistent with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” Speaking further on the religious matter of South African Black liberation theology, he said: “The perplexity we have to deal with is this: why does suffering single out black people so conspicuously, suffering not at the hands of pagans or other unbelievers, but at the hands of fellow Christians who claim allegiance to the same Lord and Master?”]
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