What role did Christianity have in Apartheid?Was the idea of God as "the Great Divider" compatible with traditional Calvinist views of providence?
>>18420689The Dutch reformed churches the Afrikaners followed were absolutely in support of Apartheid. Iirc they didn't even minister to Africans.Other churches were very anti.apartheid, though. It was one of the pillars of the movement.>Was the idea of God as "the Great Divider" compatible with traditional Calvinist views of providence?In principle, yeah. It absolutely was, it came from it. There were similar (albeit somewhat more moderate) religious ideas in the U.S at the time.
Was there a connection with Calvinism in the American South? I thought the thinking was different in America.
>>18420856I mean Baptists are calvinist Ig.
