In
The Shepherd of Hermas, one who is black was perceived as not having any ability or hope of repentance. They were also seen as being completely lawless.
In Solomonβs times it was considered a disgrace to be black or dusky, especially as a woman, as we can see in his Song of Songs (1:6).
Demons were almost always described as negroidal in the written works of early Christians (
such as Augustine) and were depicted black-skinned in their earliest iconography.
In
The Greater Bundahishn, a Zoroastrian text, the negro race is claimed to have sprung out of intercourse between demons.
The belief that the negro was a beast or a demon was practically universal among white peoples!Any effort to convert the black and brown races was either done for political power or was the result of a genuine misunderstanding by peoples with incomplete bibles and fewer materials than we have now.
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