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The African American Church and Other Grand Old Traditions

Africans world-wide seem to be through with Christianity and Islam. And for the most part I can agree.  I am a believer in God but I’ve always felt that African spirituality is alpha and omega. Before the Jewish, Christian or Islamic there was African spirituality. That indigenous spirituality runs through any modern religion we may adhere to.  It is our DNA that informs our spirit and the spirit that forms our DNA. It’s like God touching Eve’s soul.

God created the first human being and she was black. God created her in Her image: black and woman. This is the spark that lights our way in our soul’s journey.

Jesus was black. This is as The Book of Revelations says. Jesus was a black man who was lynched by Romans. After his death his image was white-washed by the church. Certain books of the bible were re-written/edited to manipulate people. And certain books and passages of the bible warn against tampering with the Word with  strong punishment to prevent the perversion of Truth. Revelations 22:19 19 And if anyone takes words away from this scroll of prophecy, God will take away from that person any share in the tree of life and in the Holy City, which are described in this scroll.” When Revelations depicted Jesus as black and Romans and Greeks blasphemed to depict Him as white that was against the Word.

Denying the reality of Jesus and his experience is like denying any other African Ancestor. He was a Cushite Jew who had a profound effect on world history.

Rejecting the black church is another problem. It is similar to throwing the baby out with the bath-water. The church has historically been a unifying center of American black communities. Use the church for it’s historical purpose and power  and reject the rest. Reject the shyster ministers and support liberation theologist. Reject the divide and conquer ministers that genuflect to the GOP. Reject pedophile ministers. Throw all the dirty water out. Unify our people in the church and the mosque. Accept the diversity of the black spiritual experience and throw out the divide and conquer toxin.

Christians and Muslims enslaved blacks and perverted  their faith with greed. They committed crimes for satan. They committed crimes against humanity. Africans used the Faith to survive the holocaust. Think about it, why do you think kkk burn down churches? So many of our heroes were Christians or Muslim: Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey  were Christian Ministers; Harriet Tubman was an African Methodist; Rev.Martin Luther King was a Baptist minister; Fanny Lou Hamer used liberation theology in her activism; Muhammad Ali practiced Sufism; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was a Sunni Muslim and minister of his faith. Strengthen the good and extinct all negative traditions. Evolution is life’s rule. If things don’t change and grow, it withers and dies. Our thinking must evolve as does our societies and infrastructure. Clarifying what advancement is is important. Sometimes what’s old has value. Most times, negative traditions must die before it destroys all that is good in and around us. Discerning what lives to evolve and what must go is of great importance. Yes, I speak now of religion/spirituality that has to be winnowed but it is also our black communities and all black nations/Pan Africa that must be refined in this way. Determining what must live and what must be left by the wayside is a priority.  

Racism, colorism, classism, homophobia, sexism, pedophilia, white supremacy, capitalism, poverty, ecocide and all forms hate and destruction must be plucked out of our human functioning. We surgically do this against cancer. Or we use a medication to eject a parasite from our body. Similar things must happen to remove toxic thoughts, words, deeds and traditions from humanity and reality.

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