The culture of a people are a part their food, music, dress codes, standards of marriage and divorce, and moral and ethical codes of that society.  Within religion is integrated the culture of its founders.  In Islam are the cultural values of the Arabs.  Recently an Islamic woman was put in jail for reporting that she has been raped by a man.  Why should a female that has been raped be put in jail? According to Islamic law, a female is not supposed to be in the company of any man excerpt that of her husband and members of her family.  So the female was charged to be in violation of Islamic law for going out with a stranger that ended up raping her.

Christianity, was founded by Jews and inherent within it are the cultural values of the Jews which run in opposition to some of the cultural standards of Europe, America, and other nations that practice christianity. In Europe and America, women often wear jeans, dress in mini skirts, wear lipsticks and makeup, and often wear high heel shoes. These basic codes of dressing are against the christian values of many churches, and pastors have been preaching against their women that wear lipstick, makeup, and mini skirts.  Here is a clash between religion and culture and who will finally win this battle.  Will the women give up their mini skirts or simply quit the church?

Rap music is practically a part of the American black culture, but many of their lyrics are considered vulgar and offensive.  America is a christian nation, so here again the pastors of the church have been preaching against the lyrics of rap music.  So here again what would the young generation that like listening to rap music do? Would they continue to enjoy listening to rap music despite the preachings of the church, or will they simply quit the church since it is interfering with the kind of music they like listening to.

Just yesterday a U.S appeals court ruled that the ban of gay marriages in the state of California is unconstitutional.  Christian churches are against gay marriages, but if the united states law allows gay marriages then gay christian couples will have the right to be married in a church by their pastor.  Here again christianity is coming to a head on collision with the values of American culture.  Where does christianity draw the line and totally reject rap music, reject the dress code of mini skirts, and refuse to marry gay couples. Who will finally win in these contest between religious values and the emerging trend of cultural values.

Christian women and women in general seek to have men who can support them financially and emotionally.  The church is against the drinking of alcohol, so does it mean anyone that owns a club or a bar cannot attend church and is the christian woman forbidden to marry a bartender? 

Dominicans as whole enjoy eating pork meat for various reasons and at the same time most Dominicans consider themselves to be christians. Christians in general have made it their standard not to eat pork meat.  So does the Dominica that love their pork meat give up christianity or pretend to practice christian values and at the same time continue to eat pork meat at home?

This collision of values between christianity and culture is stemming from the fact that the founders of Christianity were not Europeans and the Jewish culture inherent within Christianity contradicts the culture of the western world were christianity is mostly practiced.

Religion and culture go hand in hand and usually religion include the cultural standards of the people that practice that religion.  Many African nations, such as Ghana practice Christianity.  Ghanian women typically dress different from Europeans, but as many Ghanaian females have incorporated the European dress code into their way of life, their christian pastors are having a difficulty in dealing with the way these women dress to church.  The African cultural standard of the circumcision of children at an early age after the birth of the male child is identicall to that of the Jews, which was the covenant God made to Abraham.

Africans, Jews, and Muslims easily share similar cultural values and in many countries of Africa such as in Ghana, muslims and christians attend the same schools, play soccer games together, and even often marry.  In a typical Ghanaian soccer team, the goal keeper may be a christian while the number 11 left field player could be called Mustafa who is a muslim.  Africans easily integrate and tolerate the religions of others because the cultural standards of the major religion easily blend into their own.

Ghanians speak many dialects or languages and no one’s language is supreme, whereas Americans only speak English as their main language hence there is no room for the cultural values of other religion. Christianity is reaching the boiling point in America and Europe when their society is now in conflict with christian values.  The number of people becoming gay is on the rise and soon churches will be forced by law to administer marriage ceremonies to gay couples. 

In this direction that the Western culture is heading it is about time christians in countries outside of the United States and Europe start adopting a new direction of their religion for soon they also may have to be forced to marry gay couples in their churches.  Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of culture a rev heading into a collision.  At some point, the line has to be drawn in the sand to either reject or integrate rap, gay 

marriages, and mini skirts into the church.

A Ghanaian female in a typical Ghanian dress.

Africans had little choice when christianity was forced upon them by the Europeans. But as Africans can see, the cultural standards of the Europeans also came along with Christianity and to accept their religion also means accepting European culture. Kabbalah is always an option, and African churches can easily shift their teachings from the New Testament to that of the old testament and incorporate Kabbalistic principles into their teachings which are already built into the Hebrew language and in the old testament. Africans by all standards are against the gay lifestyle because it is taboo in their culture for men to have relationships with men. But if gay marriages become a part of the church then it is recommended that African churches shift their focus to strictly the Old Testament to keep out gay marriages from their church and society. It is approaching the point that people will feel ashamed to be called Christians when gay marriages are formally adopted by the church.

An European female in a mini skirt. 

The worship of the Seven African gods easily blends in with African cultural values, but a better direction is Kabbalah which incorporates commanding nature by the names  Seven Hebrew Gods.

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