Monday, March 16, 2009

Community Hour Letter Template

Speech by King Leopold II in the arrival of the first missionaries to the Congo

countrymen, the task entrusted to us to meet demand is very sensitive and tactful. You are here to evangelize but to do so you must inspire above all in the interests of Belgium.
The main purpose of our mission in the Congo is not to teach black people to know God, they already do: they talk and are subject to Mungu, Nzambe, Nzamkoba, and I know myself. Know that to kill, sleep with other women, slander and assault is wrong, wrong. Have the courage to say, not going to teach you something you already know. Your main purpose is to facilitate the tasks to managers and entrepreneurs. For they must interpret the gospel in the way that most benefits our interests in this part of the world. To do this you will have to, inter alia, promote disaffection among the natives of the riches hidden beneath the floor if necessary, and avoid the temptation to become a murderer to evict them and dream to get them. Your knowledge of the gospel will allow you to easily find texts for the faithful love of poverty. For example: "Blessed are the poor, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them" or "It's so difficult for the poor to enter the kingdom of heaven as a horse go through the eye of a needle." You must delete and make them despise anything that might lead them to face us. Do be afraid to get rich it would not go to heaven. I also mention here
their fetishes of war that do not intend to leave, but you must get down to work to make them disappear. Your action should focus especially on young people so that they do not rebel against their parents if they choose to do so. Children must learn to obey what the missionary orders, who is the father of her soul.
particularly insist on submission and obedience, avoid developing the spirit in schools, teaching writing, to believe, not reason. These are, dear compatriots, the principles aplicareis. You will find many more in the books that you will be given at the end conference. Evangelize
to blacks that they always remain subservient to white settlers, not to ever rebel against their obligations will suffer. Make them recite every time, "Blessed are the poor who mourn, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to them."
entrepreneurs and managers will be forced occasionally to resort to violence, insulted, hit, to be enforced. Should not be allowed to resort to violence, revenge. To do this, and incitareis teach them, by all means, to follow the example of all the saints who have turned the other cheek, they have forgiven the sins that have been spitting without flinching or respond to aggression. Keep your women
nine months in the mission for nine months working for you for free. Convencedles that they must offer goats, chickens and eggs each time you visit their villages. Make them pay every week
rates at Mass on Sunday. Diverting this money, supposedly for the poor, to open stores where you are important: for missions, church members, tax. Transform your missions in large shopping centers to the poor light support to encourage others to pay regularly.

ask him to starve if necessary, and you eat five times a day or more with so that your bellies are always full of good things and that of your mouths emanating smell of onions.
Establish a system of confession that I make good detectors of all black to become aware or want to claim independence. Teach
a doctrine that you yourselves are fulfilling in practice might tell you why you act against what you preach; respondedles continue what you say you do not. If they reply that faith without deeds is dead faith, respond: "Blessed are those who believe without seeing, they are children of God."
Tell them to keep the statues are the work of Satan. Confiscadlas to complete our museums Veal and the Vatican. Make them forget their ancestors to remember and worship ours, Santa Maria, San Andres, San Juan, Santa Teresa, etc.
not ever offered a chair to a black man who comes to see you. Always give him a cigarette. Cenéis together but not kill a chicken every time you visit home. Consider the black children who were deceiving themselves when they were independent. Demand that you always call "My father."
acusadlos blasphemous and communism and religious persecution if they demand that you ceasing to deceive and exploit.

Leopoldville, January 12, 1883.


This text has been transmitted by Moukouani-Bokoko, born in 1915. This text obtained by chance in 1935, worked as a nurse in Kwamuth (Congo) where he bought a Bible. This text was in the Bible, that a missionary had inadvertently forgotten. CRL files / PL. The text

much of the content is divided into numbered points, I chose to integrate into a single text, hence the breaks ideas and content.

Text Translation: Jesus cured.

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