FEAR and POWER

went to the district 6 museam this morning, it was an area of cape town where different races lived together happily until the SA government decied it should be a "white area" and told everyone to leave to townships and buldozzed the whole area to the groud!!! really horrible aparteid stuff, it hit me pretty heavily when the guy who used to live there said the police would have beaten him up just for looking at a white girl... why does this happen why did the christian churches provided a "biblical backup" for it?
seems to be a mixture of power hunger and fear, people wanting power and to retain it will pretty much do anything to a people group they see as a threat, i.e. fear. hitler, sectarianism all bad stuff that humans do...

makes me think what horrors the church is supporting, or maybe a total apathy towards aids and the treatment of the third world is what the next generations will look back at and say "how could they honestly call themselves followers of Christ?"

on an aside saw the matrix 2 last night on a IMAX 5 story high screen (oh yes) and bought some chilled out house and drum and base from local djs