![]() ![]() Or let me take another example, the District Commissioner. And you have also appointed your own messengers and servants. The head of your country is in your country. Somebody like yourself must be the head here.” “The head of my church in that sense is in England.” “That is exactly what I am saying. ![]() “The head of my church is God Himself.” “I know,” said Akunna, “but there must be a head in this world among men. You are the head of your church.” “No,” protested Mr. But He made them for His messengers so that we could approach Him through them. The tree from which it came was made by Chukwu, as indeed all minor gods were. But it is still a piece of wood.” “Yes,” said Akunna. You carve a piece of wood – like that one” (he pointed at the rafters from which Akunna’s carved Ikenga hung) “and you call it a god. “Chukwu is the only God and all the others are false. He made all the world and the other gods.” “There are no other gods,” said Mr. “We also believe in Him and call Him Chukwu. “You say that there is one supreme God who made heaven and earth,” said Akunna on one of Mr. Either of them succeeded in converting the other but they learned more about their different beliefs. Brown went to that village he spent long hours with Akunna in his obi talking through an interpreter about religion. ![]()
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