I will say this,
Every being is limited by their own belief system. I choose to believe that whomever I pray to can hear me. Whether I pray to God (the collective conscious), my ancestors who have passed on before me, or the Universe in general.
If you choose to limit yourself to religion, that is your right and I have no desire to uproot you from that. However, I will answer truthfully when I have the answer to a question or when false information is claimed as true. If you know history as well as theology, philosophy as well as sociology, science as well as mythology you will comprehend the truth of many things.
You will know that woman was worshiped before religion formed. You will know that religion was formed to control the berbers who threatened civilization. You will know that male dominance was the first step to subhuman bondage in Akebulan. It was not until tribes began to war over the importance of the woman that European enslavers were able to buy and steal human beings to be sold into murderous slavery. And further were able to dehuminize these Mother Lovers in the eyes of first their own continent and eventually the world. If you know your history and theology you would know that the Tohrah originally claimed that God was We, a male and female prinicpal who formed to create physical reality. Later on the female principle was systematicly errased from the Holy text in order to subordinate women and elevate men to a level of dominance that never existed when women were worshiped. The reason for that dominace is that an Empress is a woman who has dominion over many kingdoms. Name a single man you know who does not willingly submit to his wife whom he loves. Every rightious husband knows that his wife runs the house, he would have it no other way. Every man you know who suffers from machismo is unhappy inscure and/or abusive to any woman he manages to capture.
A rightious man loves women. He will never allow any man to disrespect any woman, or any woman to disrespect herself.
If you choose to believe that salvation comes only through a prophet, then that is you choice. If you choose to believe the full text of a Holy book, that is your choice. But I suggest you read the words yourself. Not the words of bystanders and observers, but the actual words of Jesus the Christ and Haile Selassie I. Ask your self how you can go against the wishes of your God, the truth of your God. Read what these men actually said about divinity, spirit, and God the Father. Ask your self if the words of followers can override the words of those they choose to follow. And be honest with yourself about the religion that these men actually followed. Jesus the Christ denounced religion regularly, he was not a Christian and he was not a Jew. Haile Selassie I often stated that religion was only a path to spirituality.
To ignore the message of a messenger is foolishness. To praise the messenger above the message is pure folly. To ignore the wishes of the messenger whom you praise is blatant ignorance. To maintain as law a message filtered through men of evil intent is suicide. To ignore the similarity of one message to another, older message is hatred.
No matter what you claim as your truth you cannot alter the course of the Universe with a lie. You can only doom yourself.
People still quote Frued even though his theories have been proven wrong many times over. People still dispute evolution even though the evidence is overwhelming. Some people still believe great God will come down out of the sky and save them even though the man who invented this theory was wrong about the date and time and in fact died without ever producing a grain of truth. Some people believe that Africans are closer to Apes than humans even though science proves that humanity is one species with many colours and even more shades and hues. Europens used to use leeches as a major medical instrument, believing that almost any illness could be help by blood letting. These same Europenas used to preform labotomys for almost any moderate to severe mental disability. Europeans used to believe the Eart was flat, and if you sailed too far you'd fall off. These are the very same people who used the Bible to enslave paupers and peasants, also known as the uneducated masses.
The old Testement speaks of a jealous God, an angry God, a God who must be constantly apeased and satisfied. A God who demanded sacrifice, both human and animal, a God who forgave only those willing to commit unspeakable acts of violence and subordination. A God who tells slaves to obey their masters without question for an unending amount of time. The new Testement speaks of a loving, gracious God, a God of bountiful forgiveness. A God who rejected any sin for any reason, who fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and housed the homeless.
So you tell me, who's who.
King Solomon's mother was already married when his father King David had her abducted from her bathroom and brought to his palace so that he could implant her with his seed. God gave the Ark to the Queen of Sheba who was tricked out of her virtue and thereby blessed with a son who would become king of a Black land. What would cause you to believe that this is not also the fate of Mary, mother of Jesus, who refused to reveal the circumstances of her conception.
Common sense is a virtue. People don't change until something causes them to see the error of their ways. And once they have seen, they cannot ever be the way they were before.
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