Our different religions

Why do Christians mock our traditional beliefs and traditions? Who gives them the right?

Many times, I have read that the early explorers took priests along with them when they travelled to the far-off regions of the world. The priests were supposed to convert the “heathen savages” to Christianity.

What right did they have to force their religion down on the inhabitants of the unexplored world? What made them think that theirs was the “right” religion?

What is the difference between the primitive man, who dances around a fire to make it rain – and the priest who swings a thurible of burning incense, as he stalks down the aisle during Catholic mass?

What is the difference between village people slaughtering an ox in memory of their forefathers – and members of a church eating wafers and drinking wine that are supposed to be the blood and flesh of their God?

The churches have often been devious in the manner in which they “convert” people to Christianity. They have no scruples when it comes to changing the way in which people worship their God, just as long as they can get control of the people's "minds."

Voodoo is a good example of this.

Can Angus Buchan, and charlatans like him, make more rain than the Red Indian medicine man? Can the Pope, by praying, guarantee that it will rain, any more than the Kalahari Khoi Elder who blows ashes to the wind?

So my question is a very simple one: Why do Christians laugh at our belief in the spirits of our forefathers, and the manner in which we choose to worship our ancestors?

We certainly don’t laugh at their belief in an invisible god who is mostly vindictive and cruel.

And very scary…