I was not too long ago made aware of a powerful roadblock to our people accepting the truth about our African spiritual heritage and choosing instead to cling to the faulty religions of their slavemasters.
I can show a christian all the contradictions in the bible. I can delineate the abuses of preachers and churches. I can expound the beauties of African spirituality and point out the embarrassing extent to which christianity has borrowed from kemet. The answer invariably is "Yeah but I still got to go to church. I know all you say is true but it's still important to fellowship."
What can I say? I'm offering truth but in their eyes it is mere information without a social context. What can I do? I don't have a place with a group of people I can take them to so they can see African spirituality in action. What will it take to abandon one's whole social matrix to embrace something out of a book?
Truth is for the brokenhearted. True spirituality is for those who find no comfort in the material of the world's lies. You have to have eyes to suffer. Your eyes have to be wide open to feel pain. Their eyes are wide shut and sleep's the only freedom they know.
But we can't change African spirituality to make it appeal to the comfortable sleeping masses. In so doing we twist it around so that it becomes just another manifestation of the matrix. If we could let the truth stand aloof and instead prepare our minds we will eventually rise to that truth.
I can show a christian all the contradictions in the bible. I can delineate the abuses of preachers and churches. I can expound the beauties of African spirituality and point out the embarrassing extent to which christianity has borrowed from kemet. The answer invariably is "Yeah but I still got to go to church. I know all you say is true but it's still important to fellowship."
What can I say? I'm offering truth but in their eyes it is mere information without a social context. What can I do? I don't have a place with a group of people I can take them to so they can see African spirituality in action. What will it take to abandon one's whole social matrix to embrace something out of a book?
Truth is for the brokenhearted. True spirituality is for those who find no comfort in the material of the world's lies. You have to have eyes to suffer. Your eyes have to be wide open to feel pain. Their eyes are wide shut and sleep's the only freedom they know.
But we can't change African spirituality to make it appeal to the comfortable sleeping masses. In so doing we twist it around so that it becomes just another manifestation of the matrix. If we could let the truth stand aloof and instead prepare our minds we will eventually rise to that truth.