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108 where your “superiority” is, and nowhere else. W: One thing that continues to confound me, having not experienced any of these things firsthand, is that if you listen to the message of Christianity today, despite the fact that we know what has happened in South Africa over the many many years in the past, when I here all of this and when I try to share it with what I hear from Christianity today, I find it difficult to believe that almost five centuries in the United States, until the fifties, that people were treated so poorly. How do you square all of that with your experience firsthand with what we see of Christianity today, being delivered all over the world 24 hours a day on many television channels via satellite to every part of the globe. What do you have to say today? R: Well, it’s ironic that during the Civil Rights Movement, from 1954 or 55 up until 67 or 68, there was very intense civil rights Movements—they call it a business in the United States—that were involved in Civil Rights. The irony of Christianity sometimes is that they didn’t feel that they were doing anything wrong because they believed the Bible said, this is what they were and this is how they would be treated and this is their level of civilization. And let me tell you the criteria they used. The criteria was that Noah had three sons—Ham, Shem and Japheth. His father got drunk. Ham looked up on the nakedness of his father, and God cursed him to be subservient in the world until judgment day. So African Americans happened to be the descendents of Ham. So they said that no matter how they were treated; God punished them. W: And these are the teachings that you were taught from the very beginning? R: Yes. W: By your parents?