Showing posts with label Nelson Mandela. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nelson Mandela. Show all posts

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Don't Mourn For Mandela

Don't Mourn For Mandela, He's Not the Saint Portrayed by Morgan Freeman - wnd.com

Excerpts from this article:

"... Mandela was offered his freedom from incarceration many times. All he had to do was renounce terrorism. He wouldn't do it."

" ... the world has been sold a bill of goods about Mandela. He wasn't the saintly character portrayed by Morgan Freeman. He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all its grisly horror."
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I didn't learn about South Africa and Apartheid in school. I learned about it by reading the Reader's Digest condensed book version of James Michener's book, The Covenant (excellent book, by the way). The Covenant is an historical novel that takes the reader from the 'pre-history' days of South Africa, the first white settlers to come to South Africa (from Holland, and later from England), the discovery of diamonds there, and the formation of the Apartheid system).

 Apartheid was system of forced segregation that Mandela is credited with destroying.  But South Africa is not just the story of the bad guys (whites) being overcome by the good guys (blacks). It is a story of good verses evil, but race and the color of a person's skin has nothing to do with it.

Like slavery in America, Apartheid was an evil system that our Lord Jesus condemned (read Matthew 5:5-7, the Sermon on the Mount). And like slavery in America, the the world is better off without it. But while Nelson Mandela may have rid South Africa of one evil (Apartheid), he opened that country up to many more evils, such as abortion, homosexuality and pornography.

Recommended podcasts:

Abortion, Homosexuality, & Pornography in South Africa: Interview with Peter Hammond, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
A Warning to America - by Keith Daniels of South Africa

Recommended reading:

South Africa is an Angry Nation On the Brink, Warns Nelson Mandela's Wife - telegraph.co.uk
History of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa - sahistory.org





the world has been sold a bill of goods about Mandela. He wasn’t the saintly character portrayed by Morgan Freeman. He wasn’t someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/dont-mourn-for-mandela/#eJfP4R14DmP4MKjJ.99
, Mandela was offered his freedom while incarcerated many times. All he had to do was renounce terrorism. He wouldn’t do it.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/dont-mourn-for-mandela/#eJfP4R14DmP4MKjJ.99
, Mandela was offered his freedom while incarcerated many times. All he had to do was renounce terrorism. He wouldn’t do it.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/dont-mourn-for-mandela/#eJfP4R14DmP4MKjJ.99
, Mandela was offered his freedom while incarcerated many times. All he had to do was renounce terrorism. He wouldn’t do it.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/dont-mourn-for-mandela/#eJfP4R14DmP4MKjJ.99
, Mandela was offered his freedom while incarcerated many times. All he had to do was renounce terrorism. He wouldn’t do it.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/dont-mourn-for-mandela/#eJfP4R14DmP4MKjJ.99

Thursday, March 7, 2013

"South Africa is an Angry Nation on the Brink," Warns Nelson Mandela's Wife

South Africa is an Angry Nation on the Brink, Warns Nelson Mandela's Wife - The Telegraph

Here is a very sobering message from Evangelist Kieth Daniels of South Africa:

A Warning to America (For an excerpt of this very important message, see my post: Please Don't Send Me to ... America?)

You may also want to check out these podcasts from Pastor Kevin Swanson:

The Sins of South Africa: Meeting with Nelson Mandela

Finally, if I could recommend one more thing: The Covenant, by James Michner. This is a great historical novel that sheds light on what is going on in South Africa today:  Here is a short description of this book from Amazon.com:

"Adventurers, scoundrels and missionaries. The best and worst of two continents [as they] carve an empire out of the vast wilderness that is to become South Africa. For hundreds of years, their rivalries and passions spill across the land. From the first Afrikaners to the powerful Zulu nation, and the missionaries who lived with both--all of them will influence and take part in the wars and politics that will change a nation forever.
THE COVENANT: generations of people who forge a new world in a story of adventure and heroism, love and loyalty, cruelty and betrayal."

(OK, I admit that I read the Reader's Digest version of this book, but it is a great book nonetheless!)

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

The Sins of South Africa

The Bible tells us not to put ministers up on a pedestal (I Corinthians 3), so I hope when I recommend sermons and Christian podcasts to you that you don't think I encouraging you to be followers of any particular minister. I'm certainly not. I recommend ministers and other Christians to my readers only when I feel they have something valuable to say.

Having given that disclaimer, one of the ministers I recommend on a frequent basis is Pastor Kevin Swanson. His podcasts are already heard in over 100 countries around the world, so he doesn't need me telling people how great his program is. But I want to do it anyway.

Please take some time to listen to his podcast:

The Sins of South Africa: Meeting with Nelson Mandela

How I Found Christ?

 How I Found Christ? by Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892)