Theological kinship of ancient Egypt with south-Sahara Africa

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This article deals with the issue of the kinship of ancient Egyptian civilization with the neighboring ones. To the melanin-level proof offered by Cheikh Anta Diop and Obenga's evidence of the linguistic relatedness of Kemet to the south-Saharan Africa, this article adds a theological proof. The article shows that the Eastern and Western epistemic paradigms brought by Persians and Greeks was destructive to the scientific nature of the religion ancient Egypt shared with Sumer and primitive Christianity; while, as seen through Kôngo religion which is demonstrated to be the continuation of kemetic religion, the epistemic paradigm of African traditional culture nurtures this religion. Therefore, the natural theological kinship of ancient Egypt is with south-Saharan African rather than with Asia and Europe. The rational used by the author to demonstrate this theological kinship is the following: · A cosmological argument exists which constitutes a natural systematic theology, a scientific model of religion. · This model, the kemetic cosmological argument (KCA), is perfectly congruous with the religions of ancient Egypt and Sumer, with primitive Christianity and with Kôngo religion, Bukôngo. · Western Christianity and Islam diverge totally from the basic doctrines of KCA; that is, from the scientific content of the religion of ancient Egypt. · The factor of the divergence of these two religions from KCA are the onetime influence of Persia and the sway of Grecian philosophy in the Egypto-Sumerian bastion. · It follows that Eastern epistemic paradigm and the Western one (which is patterned on Grecian philosophy) destroy the imprint of KCA, while the African traditional epistemic paradigm (as seen in Kôngo religion, Bukôngo) nurtures this scientific trend of religion. This rationale led to the conclusion that, on the theological level, ancient Egypt shares a natural kinship with south-Saharan Africa because, first of all, it is immersed with it in the same epistemology rather than with any civilization of Asia or Europe that are rather antagonistic to its theological and epistemological settings; second, as seen in Bukôngo, south-African religious paradigm nurtures the scientificity of kemetic religion, while Western and Eastern influences destroy it.

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Thsis paper raises the perception of south-Saharan traditional religion as a scientific paradigm that was shared with ancient Egypt, Sumer and primitive Christianity.

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