"When Christianity met the so-called pagan religions of Asia and Africa, there was a strange..."

“When Christianity met the so-called pagan religions of Asia and Africa, there was a strange result… There was too much in that Christian religion that the Asian and African had believed in long before the Christian religion ever came to their shores, for it had been from the shores of Asia and Africa that these powerful legends, myths, images, symbols, and rituals had originally come. But the return of Christianity to the place of its birth was no peaceful homecoming; it came with fire in its eyes, a sword in its hands, and with the will to conquer and despoil.”

- White Man, Listen!, Richard Wright, 1957.