Sister Destee, first off I want to thank you for taking the time to comment.
Secondly, I want folks to know that I was brought up in a so-called Christian household.
Thirdly, with all due respect sister, some of your comments are somewhat naive.
Let me begin by saying that our ancestors who were slaves in America did at one time practice their own form of worship and spirituality. That form of ritual which was through chanting, song, drum and dance but was taken from them because it kept them strong and in touch with their ancestors and homeland. The white enslavers knew this and forbade them to participate in anything that kept them spiritually connected to Africa and their ancestors. They had to continue these practices in secret for fear of punishment.. The African spirit had to be completely broken and this was realized through various methods of humility and torture. They were primed to suck up anything that would allow them to endure the suffering.
Christianity was then spoon fed to them in place of those practices them to make them docile and harmless. It taught them to love the the very same wicked people that had enslaved them and not to rise up against them mainly out of fear! They were denied the ability to outwardly embrace the very essence of who they were and where they had come from!!
The only difference between then and now is that they pretty much were forced to convert to this contrived, hypocritical, pseudo religion. Folks today when knowing of the savagery that was inflicted on our ancestors by these white Christians, choose to embrace the very same corrupt and tainted religious practices of their oppressors.
My dear sister,you are very much mistaken when you say that Christianity was all that they had, because they also had each other, memories of their families and the spiritual connection to their ancestral homeland and teachings.
Christianity eventually replaced all of that and as a result, has led to the docility of a great many African Americans. Most of us today still want to love and be accepted by these heathens, who by the way are also Christians and continue to discriminate, denigrate, murder and oppress a lot of our people.. When a people have a difficult time extricating themselves from something that is known to be corrupt and try to excuse it by saying it has some good points, something is psychologically wrong.
You say that it was good for our ancestors and it is good enough for you and I say it has destroyed our people and our sense self, worth and spirituality. Religion is a method of indoctrination and brainwashing and there is absolutely nothing spiritual about it. It's dogma is intended to mentally incapacitate people and hold them as slaves.
You also say that the N-word and Christianity are the same and I say that they are not. The N-word is just a tool of the so-called Christian oppressors that was used to denigrate us and some folks have decided to flip it to express something else. Personally, Some of our people have this tendency to refer each other as dogs and ni--gers and bi-ches but personally I don't ascribe to that and I don't endorse it either.
Whatever the case may be as it pertains to the N-word with folks proclaiming that it belongs to us and that it is a term of endearment and so forth that's their prerogative. Personally, I think it's ridiculous and all I can say is that I don't believe that they call each other N---gers or Kaffir in Africa.
Everything that our Ancestors were and what we could have been has been lost and we will not find it in the so-called religion of Christianity!! A great number of us have become the darker shade of our colonizers.
So sister Destee, the question still stands, after all that we know:
Why do black folks continue to embrace this so-called Christian religion and continue to worship and praise it's so-called God? Both of which are the handiwork of white people who had enslaved our ancestors. A religion that has established it's prominence and dominance using torture, exploitation, destruction, lies, murder, superstitions, fear and guilt?
What do you need religion for anyway, when everything that you could possibly need is inside of you?
Once again, thank you for your comments sister Destee.
Secondly, I want folks to know that I was brought up in a so-called Christian household.
Thirdly, with all due respect sister, some of your comments are somewhat naive.
Let me begin by saying that our ancestors who were slaves in America did at one time practice their own form of worship and spirituality. That form of ritual which was through chanting, song, drum and dance but was taken from them because it kept them strong and in touch with their ancestors and homeland. The white enslavers knew this and forbade them to participate in anything that kept them spiritually connected to Africa and their ancestors. They had to continue these practices in secret for fear of punishment.. The African spirit had to be completely broken and this was realized through various methods of humility and torture. They were primed to suck up anything that would allow them to endure the suffering.
Christianity was then spoon fed to them in place of those practices them to make them docile and harmless. It taught them to love the the very same wicked people that had enslaved them and not to rise up against them mainly out of fear! They were denied the ability to outwardly embrace the very essence of who they were and where they had come from!!
The only difference between then and now is that they pretty much were forced to convert to this contrived, hypocritical, pseudo religion. Folks today when knowing of the savagery that was inflicted on our ancestors by these white Christians, choose to embrace the very same corrupt and tainted religious practices of their oppressors.
My dear sister,you are very much mistaken when you say that Christianity was all that they had, because they also had each other, memories of their families and the spiritual connection to their ancestral homeland and teachings.
Christianity eventually replaced all of that and as a result, has led to the docility of a great many African Americans. Most of us today still want to love and be accepted by these heathens, who by the way are also Christians and continue to discriminate, denigrate, murder and oppress a lot of our people.. When a people have a difficult time extricating themselves from something that is known to be corrupt and try to excuse it by saying it has some good points, something is psychologically wrong.
You say that it was good for our ancestors and it is good enough for you and I say it has destroyed our people and our sense self, worth and spirituality. Religion is a method of indoctrination and brainwashing and there is absolutely nothing spiritual about it. It's dogma is intended to mentally incapacitate people and hold them as slaves.
You also say that the N-word and Christianity are the same and I say that they are not. The N-word is just a tool of the so-called Christian oppressors that was used to denigrate us and some folks have decided to flip it to express something else. Personally, Some of our people have this tendency to refer each other as dogs and ni--gers and bi-ches but personally I don't ascribe to that and I don't endorse it either.
Whatever the case may be as it pertains to the N-word with folks proclaiming that it belongs to us and that it is a term of endearment and so forth that's their prerogative. Personally, I think it's ridiculous and all I can say is that I don't believe that they call each other N---gers or Kaffir in Africa.
Everything that our Ancestors were and what we could have been has been lost and we will not find it in the so-called religion of Christianity!! A great number of us have become the darker shade of our colonizers.
So sister Destee, the question still stands, after all that we know:
Why do black folks continue to embrace this so-called Christian religion and continue to worship and praise it's so-called God? Both of which are the handiwork of white people who had enslaved our ancestors. A religion that has established it's prominence and dominance using torture, exploitation, destruction, lies, murder, superstitions, fear and guilt?
What do you need religion for anyway, when everything that you could possibly need is inside of you?
Once again, thank you for your comments sister Destee.
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