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Originally posted by moe.ron
The South African Apartheid Government used the bible to legitimized what they were doing. The church that provided the backing, the Dutch Reform Church, finally admitted to their part last year. Unfortunately, many in the Dutch Reform Church still hold the notion that the bible gave the whites in South Africa the right to persecute non-whites.
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Religion was not the reason they were doing it though, regardless of whether they tried to legitimize it through a church. They were doing it to maintain control and power and, for some, a separation of races.
-Rudey