If your traditional enemies are too eager for you to consume a particular thing, then its up to you to use your own critical thinking and consider what could possibly be in it thats potentially harmful to you. Im not at all saying that the Christian bible is entirely worthless because its not and much of whats in there is derived from ancient African (significantly Nile Valley) traditions such as most of the Ten Commandments, circumcision, animal sacrifice, sacred locks of hair, the afterlife, etc... Its said that the most convincing lies have elements of truth, thus, the Christian bible also has elements of truth except that one might consider those truths to be tainted. What Judaism, Christianity and Islam appear significantly to be are extensions of ancient African (Nile Valley) spirituality thats been modified to accommodate to Jews, Europeans and Arabs while Nile Valley forms of Christianity (Coptic Egyptian and Ethiopian Orthodoxy) have certain elements that lean slightly more in the interests of Africans although I wouldnt say enough to be as beneficial for Africans as the other forms have shown themselves to be for non-Africans. Ifa, Vodun, and other still living ancient pre-colonial traditional African spiritual systems can be the most beneficial for Africans in my opinion. Still, a black person might really want to re-consider swallowing whole a religion that has been used to convince them that 1) blacks are cursed to be servants/slaves and 2) slaves should obey their masters as well as offer themselves to be assaulted again after an initial assault against them, 3) remember to pay your taxes to Rome and other things like that. No one was saying slaves obey your masters when the Hebrews were enslaved to the Egyptians. Moses didnt tell the Hebrew slave being abused by his Egyptian master to turn the other cheek. And if certain U.S. black/African-American Christians really believe that Jesus Christ came to redeem us from the sins of the past, then why do some of us still living today believe that blacks are under the so-called Curse of Ham? Do they mean to say that the blood of Jesus Christ redeemed the whole world from there sins EXCEPT that one curse thats just happens to be economically beneficial to the people who propagated that book while they just happened to be heavily into the slave business -- one sin reportedly committed by one man born before The Flood who just happens to be the ancestor of the people whose land the Hebrews coveted (Canaan Land) and who they attempted to commit genocide against and whos also the ancestor of Egypt the Land of Ham where they were reportedly slaves? I mean you just have to be able to peep that jive. There are still certain black people today who believe blacks are cursed and that the evidence of it is our hair texture -- I could actually tell you exactly who told me that, what that persons name is and where you can go to interview that person, but, Im too embarrassed to say. Two other black people told me essentially something like theyre thankful for slavery or else theyd still be uncivilized in the jungles of Africa somewhere, and one of these two is still alive and younger than me today. I dont know if they still harbor those values, and when I brought it up to the one who told me over 20 years ago that essentially nappy/kinky hair is a curse!!!, that person wouldnt say it as boldly as before and even expressed wanting to grow dredlocks too like I was growing dredlocks way back then when that person told me its the sign of a curse!!! trying to discourage me, but, dredlocks are more acceptable in the U.S. black/African-American community now than when I was growing them before their wide-spread U.S. black popularity when they were mostly only associated with Jamaicas Ras-Tafarian community. All three of these black people Ive mentioned here whove expressed such things to me are either property owners, have/had families and live in upper middle-class neighborhoods (one of them is passed away now) and represent three generations from the same exact family. So, Western Christianity teachings do have the potential to breed anti-black/anti-African inferiority complexes into certain black people if such texts and their African backgrounds are not understood correctly. Approach certain teachings with caution.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:40:11 +0000
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