Christans and Native People

When the Christians first come the native people are a bit confused by the new religion but they are willing to listen. At first they are so confused and do not know how they could have the father, son and the holy sprit but only have one god, when they are telling them that there is only one god and none of theirs exist. After listening to the white people some people finds that it answers their questions. For example Nwoye, he finds that it answers his questions about why Ikemefuna was killed and why they have to kill twins when they are born. To him it never made sense. More and more people started joining the Christians and moving onto where they lived and had become part of their festivities. Finally it got to the point where the native people would not let the Christians or anyone who had converted to their belief back onto their ground. Then Enoch goes and unmasks one of the spirits of the native people and that just sends the people into anger and confusion. They don’t know what to do and all they can thing about is getting back at them. So the spirits go and burn down Enoch’s house and then they turn to the church where Mr. Smith was. They don’t want to go as low as they did by destroying what they believe in so they do not harm him, but they do burn down the church.
When Mr. Brown was the minister the people were nicer to the native people. He understood that they would not completely understand the religion but it was ok to come and be part of their church. He did not force it though. During that time the native people were treated nicer and there was not as much hatred. But when he left and Mr. Smith came everyone had to understand and had to believe in what he believed in. But the messengers were not nice to the people. The kotma beat the people in the prison and forced them to do manual labor. The British do not think that their way of life is civilized and it doesn’t mean anything to them. They do not care if they destroy their culture they just want more followers.