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Inizialmente i missionari cristiani furono ritratti come dei "santi visibili, figure esemplari di pietà ideale in un mare di persistente ferocia". Tuttavia quando l'era coloniale si approssimò alla seconda metà del XX secolo i missionari vennero considerati come "truppe d'urto ideologico per l'invasione coloniale, di uno zelo accecato"<ref group=Nota>{{Cita pubblicazione|nome=Edward |cognome=Andrews |rivista=Journal of Church & State |titolo=Christian Missions and Colonial Empires Reconsidered: A Black Evangelist in West Africa, 1766–1816 |volume=51 |numero=4 |pp=663–691 |anno=2010 |doi=10.1093/jcs/csp090 |url=https://jcs.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/03/04/jcs.csp090 |citazione=Historians have traditionally looked at Christian missionaries in one of two ways. The first church historians to catalogue missionary history provided hagiographic descriptions of their trials, successes, and sometimes even martyrdom. Missionaries were thus visible saints, exemplars of ideal piety in a sea of persistent savagery. However, by the middle of the twentieth century, an era marked by civil rights movements, anti-colonialism, and growing secularization, missionaries were viewed quite differently. Instead of godly martyrs, historians now described missionaries as arrogant and rapacious imperialists. Christianity became not a saving grace but a monolithic and aggressive force that missionaries imposed upon defiant natives. Indeed, missionaries were now understood as important agents in the ever-expanding nation-state, or “ideological shock troops for colonial invasion whose zealotry blinded them.}}</ref>.

Ma lo stesso cristianesimo ha rivolto critiche al colonialismo in quanto i suoi principi religiosi sono stati usati per giustificare le azioni dei coloni<ref group=Nota>{{Cita web|nome=Jake |cognome=Meador |titolo=Cosmetic Christianity and the Problem of Colonialism – Responding to Brian McLaren |url=https://notesfromasmallplace.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/cosmetic-christianity-and-the-problem-of-colonialism-responding-to-brian-mclaren/ |accesso=17 novembre 2010 |citazione=According to Jake Meador, "some Christians have tried to make sense of post-colonial Christianity by renouncing practically everything about the Christianity of the colonizers. They reason that if the colonialists’ understanding of Christianity could be used to justify rape, murder, theft, and empire then their understanding of Christianity is completely wrong.}}</ref>; ad esempio lo storico britannico [[Michael Wood (storico)|Michael Wood]] afferma che i popoli indigeni sono stati considerati praticamente come degli esseri non-umani e che i colonizzatori sono stati formati da "secoli di [[etnocentrismo]] e di [[monoteismo]] cristiano, che ha sempre sostenuto una sola verità (la propria), un solo tempo cronologico (quello 'dopo Cristo') e un'unica versione della [[realtà]]"<ref>Michael Wood, ''Conquistadors'', p. 20, BBC Publications, 2000</ref>.

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