LIBERATION
OF THE AFRICAN RESURRECTS IN KENEZIANISM
Earlier
the Great WILLIAM WILBERFORCE championed the Physical Liberation
Presently
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A PROTRACTED PROLOGUE
KENEZIANISM IS THE INTEGRATION OF ALL HUMAN
BEINGSON PLANET EARTH INTO THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
ONE ALMIGHTY CREATOR,
ONE CREATED UNIVERSE
AND THEREFORE ONE HUMAN FMILY
SHARING THE BENEFITS AND BENEVOLENCE OF THE COMMON
OMNISCIENT AND OMNIPOTENT DESIGNER, ARCHITECT, ENGINEER, FATHER, MOTHER AND
DOCTOR OF THE ENTIRE NATIONS IN EXISTENCE,
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Anti-slavery activist William Wilberforce: Christian hero
Published: 20 February 2007 (GMT+10)
William
Wilberforce
This year is a
historical bicentennial: on 25 March 1807 , William
Wilberforce’s long fight to end slavery resulted in the royal assent to ‘An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade’, which abolished
the buying and selling of humans throughout the British Empire . This was
after 20 years of struggle and repeated previous defeats of his anti-slavery
bills in Parliament.
Even the
usually anti-Christian Hollywood
With a plethora
of books attacking Christianity, this anniversary is timely in reminding the
world of the great good that it has achieved when truly followed. Slavery is
one of the best examples—far from being a Western Christian invention, it was
ubiquitous, and it was only the Christian west that abolished it.
(See also Christianity’s real record (off
site), showing that atheists frequently exaggerate atrocities by professing
Christians, ignore the great good done by Christians practising their faith,
and ignore the far greater atrocities of atheist regimes.)
Slavery throughout history
As conservative
black economist Thomas Sowell points out in the Slavery chapter in Black Rednecks and White Liberals,
slavery has been around all over the world for most of its history. And for
most of this dismal history, it was not a
racial issue. Most slaves did not differ racially from their masters.
For example,
Europeans enslaved Europeans—indeed, it was a European people group, the Slavs,
that was such a common victim of slavers that the very word comes from this
group (although in the Slavonic languages, slava means
glory). Also, Asians enslaved Asians, and Africans enslaved Africans—black
slaves were usually first captured by other blacks because the Europeans were
susceptible to African diseases if they ventured into the interior.
And in many cases, Caucasians were enslaved by
non-Caucasians: the dark-skinned Muslim Moors enslaved ‘white’ Europeans during
their occupation of the Iberian peninsula (what they
called ‘al Andalus’) from 711 to 1492.
Later, from the
16th century, the Muslim Barbary States of North Africa encouraged pirates who
had a flourishing white slave trade. In the first half of the 17th century,
20,000 captives were said to be imprisoned in Algiers
Tragically,
Muslims are still enslaving blacks today in Africa .
African-American economist Dr Walter Williams of George Mason University
‘Slavery in the
Sudan Khartoum
…
‘American
Anti-Slavery Group says, “Most distressing is the silence of the American media
whose reports counted for so much in the battle to end apartheid in South
Africa.” … In fact, it’s fairly safe to say that most of today’s most flagrant
human rights abuses occur in Africa . But
unfortunately they get little attention — maybe it’s because Africans instead
of Europeans are the perpetrators; Europeans are held accountable to civilized
standards of behavior, while Africans aren’t.’
Wilberforce and the anti-slavery society
Wilberforce and
his anti-slavery fight were documented in a recent book Bury
the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves by Adam
Hochschild (2005). Dr Sowell summarizes in a review:
‘The
anti-slavery movement was spearheaded by people who would today be called “the
religious right” and its organization was created by conservative businessmen.
Moreover, what destroyed slavery in the non-Western world was Western
imperialism.’ ‘Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of
today’s intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious
leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the
world.’
Indeed, Hochschild documents that the world’s
first anti-slavery movement began with a meeting of 12 ‘deeply religious’ men
in London
Wilberforce’s
motivations are crystal clear from his own book A
Practical View of Christianity (1797). This was a best seller in its
time, going through five printings in six months and was translated into five
foreign languages. John Piper writes:
‘What made
Wilberforce tick was a profound Biblical allegiance to what he called the
“peculiar doctrines” of Christianity. These, he said, give rise, in turn, to
true affections—what we might call “passion” or “emotions”—for spiritual
things, which, in turn, break the power of pride and greed and fear, and then
lead to transformed morals which, in turn, lead to the political welfare of the
nation. He said, “If … a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity]
should … gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and
the consequent influence on our political welfare.”’
Indeed, some of Wilberforce’s comments could easily
have been written to describe today’s times, with a plethora of anti-Christian
books, TV, films and laws:
‘The time is
fast approaching when Christianity will be almost as openly disavowed in the
language as in fact it is already supposed to have disappeared from the conduct
of men: when infidelity will be held to be the necessary appendage of a man of
fashion, and TO BELIEVE will be deemed the indication of a feeble mind.’
O
be not weary of well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of his
might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall
vanish away before it.—John Wesley’s last letter, commending Wilberforce.
Indeed, Wilberforce had to struggle against not
only repeated rejections, but also ill health. He had painful chronic ulcerative
colitis (large bowel disease), for which he was prescribed laudanum (a
sweetened solution of opium and alcohol), a strong painkiller for the time. It
is now usually illegal because it is so addictive, and Wilberforce kicked the
habit, but not before it had damaged his eyes. He also had a morose wife who
was an unfortunate contrast to his cheerful disposition.
Yet not only did he lead the way to abolish
slavery, he also promoted hospitals and prison reform, and advocated positive
reform in India
Wilberforce was not always a Christian. Indeed,
he was born into the privileged class, and that culture, much like today’s Hollywood
However,
Wilberforce gave his life truly to Christ in 1775, then wanted to quit
parliament because of the immorality and infighting. However, he visited John
Newton (1725–1807), famous for the great hymn Amazing Grace (hence
the name of the film). Newton Newton
‘It is hoped
and believed that the Lord has raised you up for the good of His church and for
the good of the nation.’
After Newton
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John Wesley
John Wesley was
instrumental in the conversion of Wilberforce himself. And Wesley’s last letter of his life of 24 February 1791 was to Wilberforce commending his
abolitionist work, comparing this to the gallant struggle of Athanasius (c.
293–373) for the vital biblical doctrine of the full deity of Christ.
‘Unless the
divine power has raised you up to be as Athanasius contra mundum [Athanasius
against the world], I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise
in opposing that execrable villainy which is the scandal of religion, of
England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing,
you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for
you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be
not weary of well doing! Go on, in the name of God and in the power of his
might, till even American slavery (the vilest that ever saw the sun) shall
vanish away before it.’
Another
prominent anti-slavery activist in Britain
Another very
important activist was Thomas Clarkson (1760–1846), an evangelical Anglican who
first became interested in the issue when he was at Cambridge Liverpool by a gang of
sailors who had been paid to assassinate him, and he barely escaped with his
life.
Sequel to anti-slave trade act
The 1807 Act
for the Abolition of the Slave Trade didn’t actually abolish slavery, just trading in
slaves. So Wilberforce’s campaign was not over. But as it stood, it allowed the
British navy to declare slave-transporting ships as equivalent to pirates, and
capture them to free the slaves and possibly execute the crew. This would be
what Dr Sowell means by ‘Western Imperialism’. It was also an example of
‘imposing one’s morals on others’.
Related to
this, the Stephen Spielberg film Amistad (1997),
although dramatizing events connected with a real-life slave mutiny on a real
ship by that name, accurately portrays a typical British navy officer, Captain
Fitzgerald’s utter disgust for slavery. The movie ends with this captain
finding the Lomboko Slave Fortress in Sierra Leone Africa where the
slaves had embarked, sending its crew of Royal Marines to capture the fort’s
owners and liberate the captives, then blasting it to pieces with the ship’s
cannon.
Things
have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade public
life.—Pro-slavery Lord Melbourne, in opposition to Wilberforce.
However, even
this did not stop the trade, because some captains would throw the slaves
overboard if they saw the Navy. This was also portrayed on Amistad,
although there is no evidence that it happened on that particular ship. But the
‘Slavery Abolition Act’ was passed in 1833. This made slavery illegal and
mandated that slaves would be freed (immediately for children under 6, while
those over 6 would be part slave and part free for a further four years and be
paid wages).
Fortunately, Wilberforce lived to see this. He
had become seriously ill with influenza when on 26
July 1833 , he learned with much rejoicing that this act had
passed the final reading in the House of Commons. Three days later, he died.
One month after that, Parliament passed the act.
Biblical teachings and applications
It should not
be too surprising that Wilberforce and his allies should have such a strong
Christian commitment. Indeed, the opposition is founded in the Creation account
of Genesis. God created a male and female human in His image, and gave humanity
dominion over the rest of creation, not over
fellow humans (Genesis 1:26–28). And Galatians 3:28 explicitly teaches the foundational
equality of human beings in nature.
Does the Bible support slavery?
Every two-penny
christophobe ignores the above points, and tries to portray the Bible as
advocating slavery. However, they are guilty of gross decontextualising of
the Bible, in presuming that the word in the Bible refers to the antebellum
American South. In reality, it had a wide range of meanings. E.g. in the
biblical culture, the Prime Minister’s cabinet members would be called his
‘slaves’. The
‘Scholars do not agree
on a definition of “slavery”. The term has been used at various times for
a wide range of institutions, including plantation slavery, forced labor, the
drudgery of factories and sweatshops, child labor, semivoluntary
prostitution, bride-price marriage, child adoption for payment, and paid-for
surrogate motherhood. Somewhere within this range, the literal
meaning of “slavery” shifts into metaphorical meaning, but it is not entirely
clear at what point. A similar problem arises when we look at other cultures.
The reason is that the term “Slavery” is evocative rather than analytical,
calling to mind a loose bundle of diagnostic features. …
‘The word ‘ebed [עבד], however, denoted not only actual slaves occupied in
production or in the household but also persons in subordinate positions
(mainly subordinate with regard to the king and his higher officials). Thus
the term ‘ebed is sometimes translated as
“servant”. Besides, the term was used as a sign of servility in reference to
oneself when addressing persons of higher rank. Finally, the same term was
also used in the figurative meaning “the slave (or servant) of God”. Thus,
the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, prophets, David, Solomon and other
kings are regularly called slaves of Yahweh (Exod 32:13; Lev 25:55; 1 Sam 3:9; Ezra 9:11,
etc.). Similarly, all the subjects of Israel and Judah are called slaves of
their kings, including even wives, sons, and brothers of the latter (1 Sam 17:8; 29:3; 2 Sam 19:5,
etc.; cf. also Gen 27:37; 32:4).…
‘For example, courtiers
of an Aramean ruler or the soldiers of the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II
were considered slaves of their monarchs (2 Kgs 6:11; 24:10–11). It is natural that kings
of
Then why is there no
command in the Bible to free the slaves immediately? Because the commands in
the Bible already documented would subtly undermine the institution far
better than a slave rebellion. E.g. the prohibition on trading in slaves
would drastically localize it. Compare the application of Paul’s teachings
with the tragic end to the rebellion of Spartacus (c. 120–70 BC), or in
modern times, compare Martin Luther King’s peaceful (and Bible-based)
protests with the secular revolutionary Malcolm X.
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This is
reinforced in the Mosaic Law, which explicitly prohibits kidnapping and selling
others into slavery, ‘Whoever
steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put
to death,’ (Exodus 21:16).
And of course, Moses was the man who God used in His miraculous deliverance of the Israelite nation from bondage
in Egypt
In the Law of
Christ, the Apostle Paul lists ‘slave traders’ / ‘menstealers’ (ανδραποδιστής andrapodistēs)
with murderers, adulterers, perverts, liars and other evil people (1 Timothy 1:10). Paul tells slaves to become free, if they can
(1 Corinthians 7:21),
and conversely tells free people to not become
slaves (1 Corinthians 7:23). When it came to a personal example, he
encouraged Philemon to free his escaped slave Onesimus (Philemon 16). Furthermore, he ordered masters to treat their
slaves in the ‘same way’ as they were treated, and not to threaten them (Eph. 6:9).
Such practice
would see the end of slavery, and without bloodshed. This indeed happened, as
thoroughly documented in Rodney Stark’s book For the Glory of God: How monotheism led to
reformations, science, witch-hunts and the end of slavery (see
review, The biblical origins of science).
He devoted ch. 4 to the consistent teachings against slavery.
Stark
documented that even back in the 7th century, Christians publicly opposed
slavery. The bishop and apologist Anselm (c. 1033–1109) forbade
enslavement of Christians, and since just about everyone was considered a
nominal Christian, this practically ended slavery. Then the famous theologian
and apologist Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) denounced the practice. Several
popes supported this from 1435, and Pope Paul III (1468–1549) gave three major
pronouncements against slavery in 1537, e.g. Sublimus Dei — On the Enslavement and Evangelization of Indians in the New World.
As Stark writes, ‘The problem wasn’t that the [Church] leadership was silent. It was that
almost nobody listened.’
Opposition to Wilberforce
Wilberforce’s
fight against slavery has much to teach us today, because many of the
opposition tactics are very similar to what anti-Christians use today (‘so
there is nothing new under the sun’ Ecclesiastes 1:9).
There are several categories:
Anti-biblical worldview
As pointed out
in Christianity on Trial (see
review, Countering Christophobia), pagan philosophers, like Aristotle,
regarded some people as natural slaves, and ‘Enlightenment’ philosophers
hostile to Christianity such as Hume and Voltaire believed in the inferiority
of dark-skinned people. They had no time for the equality of nature taught in
the Bible.
‘Keep religion out of politics’
This is probably the most common trap that
Christians can fall into today. But Wilberforce faced exactly the same
attitudes. For example, William Lamb aka Lord Melbourne (1779–1848), a future
Prime Minister of the UK Victoria Australia
Thus pro-abortion politicians who
say crude things like ‘Keep your rosaries off my ovaries’ are saying nothing
new. But in reality, facile slogans like ‘Don’t like abortions? Don’t have
one!’ are as immoral as ‘Don’t like slavery? Don’t own slaves!’
Accusations of hypocrisy
This is a
common tactic today. It is one type of (circumstantial1) ad
hominem (‘to
the person’). It doesn’t refute a position per se, but can discredit its
proponents and thus their position by association.
Wilberforce had
to face this charge, but it wasn’t in the least bit substantiated (he certainly
never owned slaves himself!). Admiral Lord Nelson (1758–1805) showed that
although he was a brilliant naval tactician, he was a lousy logician. He wrote
from his flagship Victory to
blast ‘the damnable doctrine of Wilberforce and his hypocritical allies!’ The
Duke of Clarence asserted in the House of Lords that ‘the promoters of the
Abolition were either frauds or hypocrites!’ King George III declared that
Wilberforce and his allies were ‘hypocrites and not to be trusted!’ (see William Wilberforce— Setting the Captives Free).
The
problem wasn’t that the [Church] leadership was silent. It was that almost
nobody listened (Rodney Stark)
Today, we often
find that Christians are charged with hypocrisy, whether they deserve it or
not. However, ‘hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue’—see The Haggard tragedy: ‘Christianity
must be wrong because of all the hypocrites in the church!’ As shown, when some of its leaders
fail to live up to their teachings, they cause great harm to themselves and
others. Thus even their failings demonstrate
how good these teachings would have been if put
into practice.
It is a contrast to the blind spot
anti-Christians have towards hypocrisy in their own ranks. They often don’t
live consistently by their own teachings, but in their case it is a good thing,
because the teachings are lousy.
E.g. Peter Singer, the antitheistic ‘ethicist’
who supports infanticide, euthanasia and bestiality, would not have his own
mother killed when she developed Alzheimer’s. So his hypocrisy showed how
diabolical his theories really are, and it is a good thing for his mother that
Peter is a better son than he is an ethicist.
Similarly, the misotheist Richard Dawkins rejects objective right and wrong, but still wants to denounce
creationists and pro-lifers as ‘wrong’. And consider those postmodernist
academics who claim that language has no objective meaning but is in the eye of
the beholder. They would bleat piteously if their university accountant decided
not to pay them, on the grounds that he beheld their salary contract as meaning
that they would work for free.
Abusive ad hominem
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Lord Melbourne
Wilberforce’s
opponents were not above this type of argument as well. In Wilberforce’s case,
attacks would focus on his shortness (he was only 5’ (152 cm) tall). James
Boswell (1740–1795), best known for his fascinating biography of Dr Johnson
(1709–1784), author of the first English dictionary, wrote the following ‘poem’
(see Remembering a Hero):
I hate your
little whittling sneer
Your pert and self-sufficient leer.
Begone, for shame
Thou dwarf with big resounding name.
Your pert and self-sufficient leer.
Begone, for shame
Thou dwarf with big resounding name.
Misotheists
today are not above inflammatory language. A good example is our old friend Dawkins.
Tobias Jones in the leftist UK
Believers are
ridiculed for being, in contrast to the stupendously brainy atheists, very dim.
Listen to Richard Dawkins’ comment on Nadia Eweida (the BA [British Airways]
employee who refused to take off her cross [so was suspended]): ‘she had one of
the most stupid faces I’ve ever seen.’ Nice.2
Epilogue: American application
The USA
‘We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.’
This is mainly
because right at the start, many of the states were Slave States. All the same,
as Carroll and Shiflett point out in Christianity on Trial,
this deduction from Paul’s statement in Galatians 3:28 (above) would have been laughed at in
pagan times. It was this declaration that led Lincoln
However, American
slavers likewise realized the contradiction between slavery and the
Declaration, so some of them invented schemes by which the black slaves were
regarded as less than human. So in reality, it was more a case of slavery
causing racism rather than racism causing slavery.
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Slaves in America
Indeed, the
1787 US Constitutional Convention originally counted slaves as 3/5 of a person
for purposes of deciding representation in the House. Actually, this compromise
was to limit the voting power of the Slave States, because otherwise they could
have counted the slaves for voting purposes, yet used this voting leverage to
vote against these very slaves, which would be real chutzpah.
Naturally all this became academic after the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1865), so the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1868) counted whole persons
regardless of race.
However, while
slavery flourished, some of its defenders picked up on biblical compromises,
such as the pre-Adamite nonsense, which was a common justification for racism before Darwin. Another was
inventing a ‘curse on Ham’ that allegedly resulted in dark skin. However, the
Bible is crystal clear that the curse wasn’t even on Ham at all, but on his son
Canaan , and by
implication, only Canaan ’s descendants. There is not the
slightest hint in Scripture, whether explicitly or by logical deduction, that
they were black, let alone that blackness is the result of any curse (see also Are black people the result of a
curse on Ham? from One Blood: The biblical answer to
racism).
However, America
It has well
been said that nations struggling for liberty against powerful oppressors flee
as instinctively to the Old Testament as they do to mountain ranges. The
American slave universally called his bondage Egypt Red Sea as parts of
his own experience. In the dark days of slavery, the history of Moses was sung
at night, and by stealth, on plantations, with solemn rhythmic movements,
reminding one of Egyptian times (p. 63).
It is also
noticeable that 100 years later, Martin Luther King Jr. cited overtly biblical
justifications for racial equality. And the enemies of racial equality also saw
its Christian underpinning, as shown by the KKK bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Birmingham , Alabama 15 September 1963 , which killed four black girls.
This shows once more the virulently anti-Christian attitudes held by fanatical
racists (see also Darwinism’s influence on modern
racists and white supremacist groups: the case of David Duke).
In 1857, the US
Supreme Court, under Roger Brooke Taney (1777–1864) ruled in the ‘Dred Scott
decision’ that Congress could not outlaw slavery in any territory—this was to
be the territory’s ‘right’ after it had
become a state. Also, slaves were defined as non-persons, and their descendants
could not become citizens.
Later, this was
rescinded, but it severely dented the moral authority of the Supreme court. And
they haven’t learned either. In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, activist judges led by Harry Blackmun (who ironically
had a cameo in Amistad) invented a ‘right to
privacy’ supposedly found in the US Constitution, applied this to a woman’s
womb, and decided that she has a right to abort her baby for any reason (which
must logically include the reason, ‘We don’t want a girl’).
In the process, the Court explicitly declared the unborn baby a non-citizen. I
am convinced that one day, posterity will look upon Roe
v. Wade with
as much revulsion as the Dred Scott decision.
Post-script: Wilberforce Jr. v Huxley debate
Wilberforce’s son, Samuel (1805–1873),
the Bishop of Oxford, obtained notoriety as an opponent of Darwinism, who was
supposedly bested in a debate with
Also ignored by those
who want to paint this debate as bigoted religion v enlightened science, Sam
Wilberforce was Professor of both Theology and Mathematics of Oxford, and had
reviewed
And Sam Wilberforce was
fully supportive of his father’s anti-slavery campaign. He made such a strong
impression at an anti-slavery meeting in 1841 that he was soon appointed as
chaplain to
‘It may be
quite true that some negroes are better than some white men; but no rational
man, cognisant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal,
still less the superior, of the average white man. And, if this be true, it
is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our
prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor,
he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and
smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and
not by bites. The highest places in the hierarchy of civilisation will assuredly
not be within the reach of our dusky cousins, though it is by no means
necessary that they should be restricted to the lowest.’
Strangely enough,
Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion cites this sentiment by Huxley. In a
typically shoddy display of historical revisionism, Dawkins uses this example
of a man who was supposedly enlightened for his time to show how much we have
grown in morality today:
‘The whole
wave keeps moving, and even the vanguard of an earlier century (T. H. Huxley
is the obvious example) would find itself way behind the laggers of a later
century.’
In reality, Huxley’s
sentiment was a backward step
from the previous work of Wm. Wilberforce for racial equality, and was
written to oppose the
notions of equality current in
It is a perfect
illustration of the point made by famous Marxist evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2005), that racist arguments
‘increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary
theory’. And such ideas reached their horrifying climax 70 years later in
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I.e. attacking a person’s circumstances, as
opposed to abusive ad
hominem, attacking the person’s character, etc. Return to Text
2.
Speaking of anti-Christian hypocrisy, BA
claimed that Mrs Eweida’s tiny cross was ‘offensive’ to non-christians, yet
they allowed very conspicuous Sikh and Muslim clothing. And she is a Coptic
Christian whose cross is very important to her because of persecution in her
ancestral land of Egypt
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HERE I REST MY SECRETARY'S PEN FOR NOW. CAN THERE BE A ONE-WORLD RELIGION? *** INSTEAD OF THIS FRATRICIDAL CHRISTIANS versus MUSLIMS verses BOKO HARAM versesISIS a.k.a. ISLAMIC STATE
JIHADISTS ? ? I WONDER CAN MERE MORTALS BE FIGHTING FOR GODS. SURELY A RATIONAL
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THE ENOCHIAN BEATITUDES
1. Blessed are those who obey all
the Natural Laws in creation, For theirs is the Kingdom of God
2. Blessed are those who recognise
that all human beings are their brothers and sisters, For their portion is the
possession of the true Egalitarianism.
3. Blessed are those who know that
we all share the same air, water, blood plasma, sun and moon, For this native
insight shall reward them with filial love and care for others.
4. Blessed are those who realise
that we all walk and plant on the same ground, For social justice and the joy
of sharing shall be their everlasting benefits.
5. Blessed are those who wake up
early each morning thanking and praising God, For this acknowledgement shall
bring them divine blessings and peace of mind.
6. Blessed are all that recognise
that equality at birth is the L.C.M. of human life, For theirs is the
philosophic insight that eradicates apartheid and abrogates racism.
7. Blessed are the wise who know
that we return to this human equality at death, For theirs are the social
virtues and simple lifestyles it inculcates in all wise people.
8. Blessed are the genuine
proponents and practitioners of true family life, For, through lovely children
and happy homes, they shall inherit eternal life.
9. Blessed are all who train
themselves to restrain their thoughts and guard their speech, For they will be
respected by and confided in by those who interact with them anywhere.
10. Blessed are the few who have
conquered their appetites for food, drinks and sex, For true happiness based on
control of their will power shall be crowns on their heads.
BLESSED ARE THE TRUE
DISCIPLES OF PATRIARCH ENOCH FOR
• SUCCESSFUL LONG LIVES,
• GOOD HEALTH IN OLD AGE,
&
• PHYSICAL ASCENSION
INTO HEAVEN SHALL BE
THE ETERNAL PRIZES
RESERVED FOR THEM BY GOD!
Inspired by the Holy
Spirit and written down at 3.30 a.m. on the 11th of March,
later improved on and modified till 9.35 a.m. on 26th July, 2004 by Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
BEWARE OF
PROSPERITY GOSPEL PREACHERS
1.1 AN OVERVIEW OF THE SCENARIO
Every Wednesday night of the past
decade has been a nightmare for the residents of GRA within a kilometre of
thePark Lane Hospital Ekulu River
As early as 5.00 p.m. every
Wednesday evening, the pilgrims start trooping from the Four
Corners of the wind. By 7.00 p.m. a
riotous motley of fanatics, mystics, neurotics, schizophrenics, the barren, the
widowed, the blind, the deaf, the crippled and the chronic spinsters or
bachelors assemble for a "Holy Ghost Fire Night!" The craze for
abundance in wealth and/or material things of life mistakenly identified as
miracles, easily called "signs and wonders" is the latest fad among
worshippers of all religions, as well as, Christians of all denominations. If
there is any ecumenism that is non-sectarian today, it is to be found among the
less privileged seeking for divine healing, the pauperised Christians seeking
easy access to prosperity and increment of their meagre salaries through rapid
promotions in the civil service or the private sector of the depressed economy.
Birds of different plumage sink their dissimilarities and opposing doctrines if
only it would guarantee them spiritual relief and the emotional ecstasy the
weekly night vigil provides. All over the country, such religious spectacles
have become a recurrent decimal in the theory and practice of Christianity
since the advent of the American version of Pentecostalism. It soon found loyal
associates and solidarity in the company of Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Movement (CCRM), the Evangelic Fellowship of the Anglican Communion (EFAC), the
Christian or Scripture Union (CU or SU) and a host of such other syncretic
organisations within the Christian Community nation-wide! Over three thousand
exotic names of mushroom churches exist today!
The undue craze for signs and
wonders: a.k.a. deliverance, healing, exorcism, miracles or divine cures and
the proliferation of healers of all descriptions and their healing centres is
the eight wonder of the world or even the universe! Miracle seekers troop from
one crusade ground to another not minding the travel expenses to and from these
centres that often are separated by more than five hundred kilometres! These
journeys into the unknown, the unbudgeted-for pilgrimages and their feeding
bills further dwindle the lean resources of these paupers! "Don't
worry!" they exclaim, "God will always provide!" Some are ready
to do "dry" fasting for fourteen days or even longer not minding
their poor health status, all in the name of getting divine favours! Most of
these fanatical miracle-seekers are not only ignorant and confused but are
misguided by their greedy pastors who fleece them all in the name of signs and
wonders. These brothers / sisters of ours desperately need counselling,
re-education and redemption from their hypnotised mental status and the
indoctrination of their fake prosperity preaching pastors.
Jesus, our Lord and Master, was not
born into a wealthy family or an upper social class nor did he envy those who
were! Do you remember the rich young man he asked to "Go sell all you have
and come follow me"? The righteous youth left dejected! Moreover, Jesus
went further by commenting on how more difficult it would be for the rich to
enter the kingdom, stating that it would be easier for a camel to pass through
the eye of a needle! Read the gospels of Matthew 19: vv. 16 - 30, Mark 10: vv.
17 - 30 and Luke 18: 18 - 30. Do not read this booklet any further without
doing so! You will be glad you did!
There must be some demonic mass
hysteria or occult hypnotism or juju powers involved in today's craze for
prosperity among Christians who will do anything abominable to be rich and
comfortable! This is the diabolical reason why most greedy pastors and healers
would go to native doctors, worship any idol and perform any rituals in search
of demonic powers to demonstrate signs and wonders! Some use magical
handkerchiefs, others a wave of the hand and yet some blow some air in the
direction of their victims who fall down mimicking prostration under the power
of the Holy Spirit! This is what this book sets out to unravel. Then, an
attempt will be made to straighten out the false indoctrination that has for
long kept the congregation hypnotised by this new brand of healers who drive
limousines whereas their flock trek the crusade grounds and the very streets of
the cities they have converted into their financial empires!
All manners of publicity gimmick,
subliminal advertising tricks, blatant trade and cut-throat commerce are now
employed by our psychedelic nouveau-riche crusade preachers to ‘fleece the
flock and pay the ladies'! Many now make wild claims to signs and wonders
performed ‘in the name of Jesus' often tagged deliverance, healing, exorcism
and miracles. Money change hands after such magical demonstrations!
Jesus forewarned us of such fake
miracle workers! "Freely have you received, so give freely" he
cautioned his disciples! We must be wary or else get deceived by these sons and
daughters of Satan who parade as miracle workers. We need to remind ourselves
of what Our Lord Jesus said about most of these fake workers of signs and
wonders! "I do not know you" he said he would tell them at the
judgement day when they would try to prove their loyalty by asserting that they
cured, healed and cast out demons in his name!
This time around, we want to expose
the tricks and falsehood in so many pretences at or spurious claims to exorcism,
deliverance or healing! Read THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, Chapters 23 & 24, and
you will see that false claims to speaking on behalf of God had always been
there. God hates any fake prophet, priest or pastor who deceives his people!
Verse 11 of Chapter 23 sums up God's verdict:
v.11: The
Lord says, "The prophets and the priests are godless;
I have caught them
doing evil in the Temple
v.12: The
paths they follow will be slippery and dark;
I will make them
stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them; the time of their
punishment is coming.
I, the Lord have
spoken
Read all the way
down, and take note of very interesting verses e.g.
v. 31: Listen to what I, the
Lord, say! I am against the prophets who tell their dreams that are full of lies.
They tell these dreams and lead my people astray and their boasting I did not
send them or order them to go, and they are of no help at all to the people. I,
the Lord have spoken."
I have nothing to
add to those Old Testament prophecies, except that I will unmask these false
preachers within the confines of this short conference paper. This resume is
actually only an appetiser to the main course meal, "SANCTION ALL
PROSPERITY GOSPEL PREACHERS" a 250-page book, that you can purchase
outside this hall now! ‘Bon apetit!'
1.2 DIVINE HEALERS CHARGE NO FEES
It will be most
rewarding for miracle seekers and their equally false and avaricious healers
who see it as a money - spinning exercise to refresh their minds with the life
and times of two Old Testament prophets; Elijah and Elisha. You should read in
detail all the miracles they performed and list out for yourselves how many
were paid for! Most prosperity preachers flaunt their ability to hypnotise
their listeners with charms they got from juju-doctors and seek material
rewards for their abracadabra. However, they need be reminded that genuine
healers never ask for any rewards at all!
I will reproduce
here only "THE HEALING OF A GENERAL OF THE SYRIAN ARMY" from my
favourite Good News Bible edition (GNB) for its clarity of thought, for those
who are not conversant with the Christian Bible and for our discussion to be
not only meaningful but objective and persuasive! Read the whole contents of 2nd Kings
5:
"Naaman Is Cured
v.1: Naaman, the commander of
the Syrian army, was highly respected and esteemed by the king of Syria
v.2: In one of their raids
against Israel
v.3: One day she said to her
mistress, Ï wish that my master could go to the prophet who lives in Samaria
v.4: When Naaman heard of
this, he went to the King and told him what the girl had said.
v.5: The king said, "Go
to the king of Israel
v.6: The letter that he took
read: "This letter will introduce my officer Naaman. I want you to cure
him of his disease."
v.7: When the king of Israel
v.8: When the prophet Elisha
heard what had happened, he sent word to the king: "Why are you so upset?
Send the man to me, and I'll show him that there is a prophet in Israel
v.9: So Naaman went with his
horses and chariot, and stopped at the entrance to Elisha's house.
v. 10: Elisha sent a servant
out to tell him to go and wash himself seven times in the River Jordan, and he
would be completely cured of his disease.
v.11: But Naaman left in a
rage, saying, "I thought that he would at least come out to me, pray to
the LORD his God, wave his hand over the diseased spot, and cure me!
v.12: Besides, aren't the rivers
Abana and Pharpar, back in Damascus Israel
v.13: His servants went up to
him and said, "Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something difficult,
you would have done it, Now why can't you just wash yourself, as he said, and
be cured"
v.14: So Naaman went down to
the Jordan
v.15: He returned to Elisha
with all his men and said, "Now I know that there is no god but the God of
Israel; so please, sir, accept a gift from me."
v.16: Elisha answered,
"By the living Lord, whom I serve, I swear that I will not accept a
gift." Naaman insisted that he accepts it, but he would not.
v.17: So Naaman said, "If
you won't accept my gift, then let me have two mule-loads of earth to take home
with me, because from now on I will not offer sacrifices or burnt-offerings to
any god except the LORD.
v.18: So I hope that the Lord
will forgive me when I accompany my king to thetemple of Rimmon,
the god of Syria
v.19: "Go in peace,"
Elisha said. And Naaman left.
v.20: He had gone only a
short distance when Elisha's servant Gehazi said to himself, "My master
has let Naaman get away without paying a thing! He should have accepted what
that Syrian offered him. By the living LORD, I will run after him and get
something from him."
v.21: So he set off after
Naaman. When Naaman saw a man running after him, he got down from his chariot
to meet him, and asked, "Is something wrong?"
v.22: "No," Gehazi
answered. "But my master sent me to tell you that just now two members of
the group of prophets in the hill-country of Ephraim arrived, and he would like
you to give them three thousand pieces of silver and two changes of fine
clothes."
v.23: "Please take six
thousand pieces of silver," Naaman replied. He insisted on it, tied up the
silver in two bags, gave them and two changes of fine clothes to two of his
servants, and sent them on ahead of Gehazi.
v.24: When they reached the
hill where Elisha lived, Gehazi took the two bags and carried them into the
house. Then he sent Naaman's servants back.
v.25: He went back into the
house, and Elisha asked him, "Where have you been?" "Oh,
nowhere, sir, " he answered.
v.26: But Elisha said,
"Wasn't I there in the spirit when the man got out of his chariot to meet
you? This is no time to accept money and clothes, olive-groves and vineyards,
sheep and cattle, or servants!
v.27: And now Naaman's
disease will come upon you and your descendants will have it for
ever!" When Gehazi left, he had the disease-his skin was as white as
snow."
All quotations in this Discourse
are from "Good News Bible", or NIV, just like this one:
Isa 1:18
18 "Come now,
let us reason together," says the LORD.
"Though your
sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as
crimson, they shall be like wool.
(That is the end of
the story)
COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSES OF WHAT
TRANSPIRED:
1.
Like all earthly kings, the Syrian king thought it was the
king of Israel
2.
The king of Israel
3.
Read verses 12 & 13 now and the truth is clear! These temporal rulers
expect royal receptions by religious ones, while the reverse is always the case
when it is their turn to receive you at their army headquarters or government
houses. Well, the ball is in our court to sweep our house clean by dismissing
bootlickers among the vainglory-seeking pastors of our generation.
4.
Now re-read verse 10 and appreciate the simple manner great prophets deal with
people of all classes. They do not discriminate nor do they give preferential
treatments; v. 10: Elisha sent a servant out to tell him to go and wash himself
seven times in the River Jordan, and he would be completely cured of his
disease. You have to
earn respect by recognising that you are serving the King of Kings, and
therefore pay little or no attention to earthly ranks and social statuses!
5.
Note again, how pride and social status consciousness often make us lose our
reasoning capabilities! Read verses 11 - 14. Can you see that ordinary servants
and may be, in this case soldiers of lower ranks were more intelligent than a
G.O.C. Remember that Field Marshall Naaman was commanding the entire armed
forces of Syria. Our archbishops, bishops, superintendents or overseers of the
various denominations in today's Christendom can gain some wisdom therefrom.
You must, occasionally, humble yourself and accept good counsel from your juniors.
Your rank or position does not equate to intelligence! Wisdom is a divine gift!
6.
How many religious leaders of this avaricious generation could refuse the
material gifts as Prophet Elisha did? The genuine answer is NO ONE! No, not
even the author of this very book! "WHY?" you may ask. We are
products of a society that places undue premium on material possessions; flashy
cars, colourful robes and public adulation! Re-read verses 15 & 16 and
appreciate the very words of "the man of God", but today we have
those who like to be addressed as men of God without the attributes associated
with the appellation!
7.
Note the complete conversion of the heathen Naaman, and his pleading in advance
that the Lord forgives him whenever he had to accompany his king to the temple
and bow along to his nation's idol! That is the mark of a good soldier; a
demonstration of strict discipline and unflinching loyalty to civil authority
despite religious differences with others! Were it in our generation, there would
have been a "coup de état" and a spurious litany of reasons to
justify the change of guards! This would normally be followed by lengthy
congratulatory messages in the electronic media and paid advertorials in all
the national dailies! All these fanfares were strictly prohibited by genuine
prophets and Jesus Christ himself!
8. Verses
20 & 21 depict the thinking of our generation of current prosperity
preachers! Then take note of the premeditated lies that our nouveau-riche
religious assistants can equally forge! Verses 22 & 25 represent what goes
on in many churches today. There seems to be a rat race for money and whatever
money can buy! Accountants and financials secretaries on many religious
committees collude to siphon mission funds atimes with pastors or priests as
accomplices! These disciples of Satan have invaded our congregations and
traditional honesty in Igboland, as well as, family integrity has become
old-fashioned! Ha-ba, Christianity!
9.
Then comes the grand finale of this theosophical homily as is embedded in this
auspicious story:"TRANSFERENCE OF THE LEPROSY" which I think is the
lesson of the whole eventful narrative. Our priest and pastors should learn
from what happened to the greedy and lie-spinning servant of the man of God -
Gehazi. I, however, do not share the punishment extended to his innocent
children and subsequently their entire posterity! The lesson should however not
be lost by us, namely, that our actions as parents may inflict generational
curses on our offspring even today! Permit me to sign off on this note!
If
you have access to the "Gift & Award Edition of NEW LIVING
TRANSLATION" you will notice that it gives verses 20 - 27 a separate
sub-heading that says it all: "THE GREED OF GEHAZI". This truly brings
out the lesson of the story. Some greedy healers should realise that often they
take on the infirmities they pretend to have chased away from those who paid
them for the healing.
BEWARE ;
GOD'S GIFTS ARE NOT SALE
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1.
001 FOUNDATION BLOCKS OF
INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW
i. Oh! Mortal man, why do you pride yourself with such titles as " Homo sapiens", "His or Her Excellency", "His Lordship or His Grace", His Royal Highness" and finally the "Lord of the Material Universe", when you can never hear better than a common bat, nor see better than the eagle?
ii. What achievement has any man made that is not built on what has already been provided by Nature? Just name one. Is it not enough to humble us down to our knees in respect to whatever put us here on planet earth?
iii. What is it that took care of our forefathers and ensured that they survived to rear us the best they could? Who protected us in our mothers' wombs and those deadly infant diseases that killed some of our peers so that we survived to flaunt our high resounding titles.
iv. Now let us all bow our heads. Be silent for a while and listen to Nature communicate wisdom in its simplest forms. When you hear the cock that crows at night, starting from about3.00am
till it is 6.00 a.m.
marking out the hours while you sleep, what is it saying? -- It is thanking its
Creator for another day. And secondly, it is obeying Him by doing its duty
twenty-four hours a day marking out the hours of each day for all other animals
and you, man, the lord of the material universe as you choose to call yourself!
v. It does it regularly and has been doing so before you, oh little creature copied him to make your wristwatches in an attempt to supplant him, but you have failed. The cock is more precise than the best chronometer you ever invented or will soon manufacture! For one thing, it does not need a battery to operate nor does it need servicing!
From Your One & Only ...........
CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW
i. Oh! Mortal man, why do you pride yourself with such titles as " Homo sapiens", "His or Her Excellency", "His Lordship or His Grace", His Royal Highness" and finally the "Lord of the Material Universe", when you can never hear better than a common bat, nor see better than the eagle?
ii. What achievement has any man made that is not built on what has already been provided by Nature? Just name one. Is it not enough to humble us down to our knees in respect to whatever put us here on planet earth?
iii. What is it that took care of our forefathers and ensured that they survived to rear us the best they could? Who protected us in our mothers' wombs and those deadly infant diseases that killed some of our peers so that we survived to flaunt our high resounding titles.
iv. Now let us all bow our heads. Be silent for a while and listen to Nature communicate wisdom in its simplest forms. When you hear the cock that crows at night, starting from about
v. It does it regularly and has been doing so before you, oh little creature copied him to make your wristwatches in an attempt to supplant him, but you have failed. The cock is more precise than the best chronometer you ever invented or will soon manufacture! For one thing, it does not need a battery to operate nor does it need servicing!
From Your One & Only ...........
REVOLUTIONARY PROFESSOR OF MODERN
THEOSOPHY
2.
vi. So man, learn to imitate the
birds that wake each morning chirping their morning prayers of thanks, while
pleading to the Lord for their daily bread.
vii. What of trees that daily release oxygen for your use? Have you ever gone to the gas station to purchase human fuel, either air or water? How much air and water do you use each hour of your life? Who provides and purifies them?
viii. Did you thank the Creator of this universe for these two items only? When will you do so? Do it now! Stop at this page, kneel down and reverence whatever put you here on planet Earth
ix. From today when the birds start their own morning hymns, oh you little man, join them. That is why He feeds them on a daily basis, but you have to struggle and suffer or steal to have food on an irregular basis besides our human greed that makes it difficult for his fellow men to even have a little!
x. Whatever or whoever created us all must have put some laws to govern whatever breathes his air and drinks his water, for there are accidents and suffocation when these elementary functions are performed inappropriately.
xi. We must eat to live, drink to survive, sleep to rest and procreate to save our species from extinction. Each of these functions we perform from generation to generation, educated or not, civilised or not pious or crooked! It wonderful isn't it.
xii. Order and grace, beauty and serenity adorn His creations wherever you find them in their natural habitats unperturbed by the most destructive animal; man! So let us relent!
xiii. The voice of wisdom speaks in all His creations but only the wise can hear them! Can you interpret the language of honeybees or bring fellow men to march in formation like the soldier ants without coercion and spending some funds on training programmes, which the ants never do even at birth!
xiv. These and similar precision occurrences like sunrise and sunset should make us more pious and respectful but what do we find? Arrogance or buffoonery intoxicates most of us.
xv. The wisdom of the Creator shines forth everyday as the sunlight, but we prefer to walk around like blind men vaunting our ignorance of His natural laws that govern our very existence.
xvi. So how do you assist a blind that does not see properly but claims that he is okay and is not in need of your help, as he will never accept that he does not know everything!
xvii. That is the problem with our human race. Other animals are ready to learn from their parents and obey them diligently, only man claims to know when he does not! When shall we ever learn as other baby animals learn?
xviii. The time is now, not tomorrow, not next month, not next year but this very moment. How does one do exactly that, you may ask?
xix. Don't ask me, Kenez; rather ask King Solomon, the Wise! Go and read and memorise 1st Kings, Chapter 3, verses 6-15. Or for an elaborate treatise, find the complete bible edition and read chapter 9 verses 1- 18 of the WISDOM OF SOLOMON.
vii. What of trees that daily release oxygen for your use? Have you ever gone to the gas station to purchase human fuel, either air or water? How much air and water do you use each hour of your life? Who provides and purifies them?
viii. Did you thank the Creator of this universe for these two items only? When will you do so? Do it now! Stop at this page, kneel down and reverence whatever put you here on planet Earth
ix. From today when the birds start their own morning hymns, oh you little man, join them. That is why He feeds them on a daily basis, but you have to struggle and suffer or steal to have food on an irregular basis besides our human greed that makes it difficult for his fellow men to even have a little!
x. Whatever or whoever created us all must have put some laws to govern whatever breathes his air and drinks his water, for there are accidents and suffocation when these elementary functions are performed inappropriately.
xi. We must eat to live, drink to survive, sleep to rest and procreate to save our species from extinction. Each of these functions we perform from generation to generation, educated or not, civilised or not pious or crooked! It wonderful isn't it.
xii. Order and grace, beauty and serenity adorn His creations wherever you find them in their natural habitats unperturbed by the most destructive animal; man! So let us relent!
xiii. The voice of wisdom speaks in all His creations but only the wise can hear them! Can you interpret the language of honeybees or bring fellow men to march in formation like the soldier ants without coercion and spending some funds on training programmes, which the ants never do even at birth!
xiv. These and similar precision occurrences like sunrise and sunset should make us more pious and respectful but what do we find? Arrogance or buffoonery intoxicates most of us.
xv. The wisdom of the Creator shines forth everyday as the sunlight, but we prefer to walk around like blind men vaunting our ignorance of His natural laws that govern our very existence.
xvi. So how do you assist a blind that does not see properly but claims that he is okay and is not in need of your help, as he will never accept that he does not know everything!
xvii. That is the problem with our human race. Other animals are ready to learn from their parents and obey them diligently, only man claims to know when he does not! When shall we ever learn as other baby animals learn?
xviii. The time is now, not tomorrow, not next month, not next year but this very moment. How does one do exactly that, you may ask?
xix. Don't ask me, Kenez; rather ask King Solomon, the Wise! Go and read and memorise 1st Kings, Chapter 3, verses 6-15. Or for an elaborate treatise, find the complete bible edition and read chapter 9 verses 1- 18 of the WISDOM OF SOLOMON.
2.
THE MISSION STATEMENT OF INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
To rescue
humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates
worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an
everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that
are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on
the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was
riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to
declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses
actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history
books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish
race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
THIS IS THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF OUR CONSORTIUM OF
SOCIAL SCIENTISITS ( I S M INTEGRATIONAL
SPIRITAN MOVEMENT ) THAT HAS VOWED TO ENTHRONE A LASTING GLOBAL PEACE IN OUR
DIGITALISED GLOBAL VILLAGE, PLEASE JOIN
US TODAY!
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ALL MY LIFE I HAVE SPENT THINKING OF HOW TO HALT RELIGIOUS
FANATICISM, DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc. IN MODERN THEOSOPHY, HAS
STUDIED RELIGION ACADEMICALLY FROM 1962 AS A JUNIOR SEMINARIAN AT ALL HALLOWS
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INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now
predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we
provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and
power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going
to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that
was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well
enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that
Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The
history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the
Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
THIS
IS THE MAJOR OBJECTIVE OF OUR CONSORTIUM OF SOCIAL SCIENTISITS ( I S M
INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT ) THAT HAS VOWED TO ENTHRONE A LASTING GLOBAL
PEACE IN OUR DIGITALISED GLOBAL VILLAGE, PLEASE JOIN US TODAY!
ALL MY LIFE I HAVE SPENT THINKING OF HOW TO HALT
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, I, DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc. IN MODERN
THEOSOPHY, HAS STUDIED RELIGION ACADEMICALLY FROM 1962 AS A JUNIOR SEMINARIAN
AT ALL HALLOWS SEMINARY, ONITSHA TO BIGARD MEMORIAL MAJOR SEMINARY 1970 PLUS 35
MORE YEARS POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH TILL TODAY II th NOVEMBER 2016
DR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc. IN
MODERN THEOSOPHY, HAS STUDIED RELIGION ACADEMICALLY FROM 1962 AS A JUNIOR
SEMINARIAN AT ALL HALLOWS SEMINARY, ONITSHA
And behold what I found out;
And behold what I found out;
Danmbaezue Jideofo Kenechukwu25 November 2014
17:28
Religion, which is superstition sanctioned by
the state, is actually an addiction to man-made doctrines and dogmas invented,
patented and copyrighted by a few demagogues.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes
the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive
leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or
‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric
clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic
desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their
wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and
definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic
stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to
reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual
lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society
heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another
failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric
bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen
people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out
of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not
record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as
revealed truths’.
Danmbaezue Jideofo Kenechukwu25 November 2014
17:30
The Creator has hidden so much from our
intellectual faculties that to date we are still unravelling those He is
allowing humanity to glimpse at through divine dreams, intuitions, inspirations
and revelations to devout souls! Do you want to have supernatural knowledge
mediated by spiritual faculties of seeing, feeling, sensing and caring for
others? Look inwards, for the kingdom of God
The creator gave humans some of his powers
and knowledge for recreating the material universe for the mutual benefits of
all his created beings but today many use his gifts to perpetrate evil. Either
by design or demonic manipulation, the obverse is the case; the first datum
that every living thing recognises is that someone put it here and caters for
its welfare. Dogs respect and fight in defence of their owners. Every pet
realises that it is loved and taken care of by someone who has value for its
existence. It is human who pride themselves of being rational beings that do
not recognise, respect or realise that all of us have a single owner. It is
absurd! Some believe there is an Almighty Creator who provides for each
creature on daily basis, some assert that he has turned his back on us due to
our congenital wickedness and cruel ways, while others simply deny his
existence!
This is my summation of the problem;
“Religion was/is a superstitious search by humanity for its origin, existence,
meaning and relevance before the scientific era. The search was led by
acclaimed sages among the elders of a community who defined its theories and
practices. It is later ratified and recommended for legislation and
implementation by state apparatus by convincing stratagem or coercion by
politico-religious leaders. Thereafter, it is fine tuned and administered by
ordained priests and priestesses who hand it down along ancestral lineages from
one generation of lukewarm adherents, fanatics and mystics to another.
Gradually, strong personalities emerge claiming divine appointment and so pull
strong followers who idolise them as role models with supernatural powers. This
obsession confirms them as beacons of adulation and finally leads to full scale
idolatry.
Danmbaezue Jideofo Kenechukwu25 November 2014
17:32
INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN
MOVEMENT
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are
those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing
what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to
glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential
life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for
after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul.
There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a
difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of
knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the
understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism.
These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and
internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine
existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break
new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal,
inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were
fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the
refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the
tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make
the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the
possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors,
explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and
pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed
the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators
or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking.
Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised,
respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect
had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure
dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you
belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from
heaven’?
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RELIGIOUS FANATICISM NEEDS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A DEBILITATING ILLNESS OF DEPERSONALISATION ORIGIN BY DSM III, BECAUSE IT IS WORSE THAN CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM OR GENETICALLY INHERITED SEXUAL PROMISCUITY, AS WELL AS ALL VERSIONS OF NYMPHOMANICAL ADDICTIONS
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM NEEDS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A DEBILITATING ILLNESS OF DEPERSONALISATION ORIGIN BY DSM III, BECAUSE IT IS WORSE THAN CHRONIC ALCOHOLISM OR GENETICALLY INHERITED SEXUAL PROMISCUITY, AS WELL AS ALL VERSIONS OF NYMPHOMANICAL ADDICTIONS
PROFESSOR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE
EMPHATICALLY SAYS THAT RELIGIOUS FANATICISM NEEDS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS A
DEBILITATING ILLNESS AND TREATED BY UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATIONS; WHO. UNICEF ,
UNESCO etc etc AS A PREDISPOSING FACTOR IN LEADING CURRENT RELIGIOUS FANATICS
BENT ON LEADING THE CIVILISED WORLD TO THE THIRD WORLD WAR AS NOSTRADAMUS, THE
JEWISH-BORN FRENCH PHYSICIAN TURNED INTO 'SEAR' OR ACCURATE PROPHET PREDICTED
CENTURIES AGO.
............................................................................................................
; RELIGIOUS FANATICISM HAS NEVER BEEN INCLUDED
IN ANY DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL AS AN ILLNESS
We are in the Internet age and in our
scientific global village, we do not need armchair philosophers any more. They
have done us enough damage.
FANATICISM IS A PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS AND SO IS
MYSTICISM AS BOTH CONSTITUTE THE TWO SIDES OF A COIN NAMELY EXCESSIVE
INDULGENCE IN RELIGION
I had the singular opportunity of critically
studying religious excesses from 1980 – 1982 at the University of Benin
Teaching Hospital, Benin, Nigeria as it was the topic I chose and researched on
as my M.Sc. dissertation in Mental Health.
I was forced to develop a brand new
paper-and-pencil psychological test as there was none in existence as at the
material time the Guyana Mass Religious Suicide occurred in Jonestown. Just
type Jonestown Mass Suicide into your favourite search engine in the Internet
now and read about Rev. Jones and his congregation of more than 900 than drank
poison.
Jonestown Mass Suicide
The dead bodies of members of the People’sTemple Commune Jonestown , Guyana
Corbis
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
The dead bodies of members of the People’s
Corbis
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
It shocked the world for three years, but did
it stop people from becoming fanatics, NO, it did not.
And so, to date, Karl Marx; RELIGION IS THE OPIUM OF THE MASSES, remains a true dictum by a non-medical person that depicts how addictive religion can really be.
“Karl Marx, who believed history was driven by purely material considerations, took a dim view of religious faith, calling it “the opium of the masses” in his writings. The Soviet regime’s Marxist roots and its antipathy toward all social associations and belief systems not under its direct control made it openly opposed to religion from the outset. Shortly after 1917 it impounded the property of the Russian Orthodox Church, forbade religious instruction, instituted antireligious propaganda, and persecuted priests. Atheistic fervor, having abated in the 1920s, reached a crescendo after 1929, when thousands of churches were shut down and razed, only to ebb in the late 1930s and to yield during World War II to pragmatic concessions to believers. The crusade against religion was revived by Khrushchev, then toned down under Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
And so, to date, Karl Marx; RELIGION IS THE OPIUM OF THE MASSES, remains a true dictum by a non-medical person that depicts how addictive religion can really be.
“Karl Marx, who believed history was driven by purely material considerations, took a dim view of religious faith, calling it “the opium of the masses” in his writings. The Soviet regime’s Marxist roots and its antipathy toward all social associations and belief systems not under its direct control made it openly opposed to religion from the outset. Shortly after 1917 it impounded the property of the Russian Orthodox Church, forbade religious instruction, instituted antireligious propaganda, and persecuted priests. Atheistic fervor, having abated in the 1920s, reached a crescendo after 1929, when thousands of churches were shut down and razed, only to ebb in the late 1930s and to yield during World War II to pragmatic concessions to believers. The crusade against religion was revived by Khrushchev, then toned down under Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
Bertrand Russell, a renowned British
philosopher who pioneered STRAIGHT & CROOKED THINKING argued that 2 plus 2
is 4; a fact in mathematics accepted by all and no one quarrels about it
because it is FACT but if or when you force people to agree 2 plus 2 is 5, it
ceases to be a FACT, it becomes faith and ends as a problem.
The most savage controversies are those about
matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire—poison and antidote.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
British philosopher and mathematician.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire—poison and antidote.
I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principle enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
British philosopher and mathematician.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Dr Kenez traced its aetiological roots more
psycho-philosophically when he stated in his M.Sc. dissertation of 1982; BELIEF
ONLY BECOMES NECESSARY WHEN THERE ARE NO LOGICAL FACTS or EVIDENT PROOFS of a
FABRICATED LIE or FALSE THEORY propounded by a demagogue, so it naturally
transforms into A DOCTRINE or a DOGMA. That is the beginning of dissension and
the remote genesis of any brand of FANATICISM or MYSTICISM.
In the mathematical analyses preceding a concise formula to develop the required PAPER-&-PENCIL TEST after twelve months of psychometric somersaults, real painful academic rigmaroles or the needed scientific jingoism; his proposed this simplified one; FANATICISM results when STRONG WILL pathologically combines with NARROW-MINDEDNESS …. And as a corollary of the flipside of the coin; MYSTICISM only results when a WEAK WILL pathologically combines with same NARROW-MINDEDNES.
In the mathematical analyses preceding a concise formula to develop the required PAPER-&-PENCIL TEST after twelve months of psychometric somersaults, real painful academic rigmaroles or the needed scientific jingoism; his proposed this simplified one; FANATICISM results when STRONG WILL pathologically combines with NARROW-MINDEDNESS …. And as a corollary of the flipside of the coin; MYSTICISM only results when a WEAK WILL pathologically combines with same NARROW-MINDEDNES.
rf = sw(nm) whereas rm = ww(nm)
Therefore “ f “ is a factor that could stand for any other human disposition that is addictive; Politics, Football, Religion or Music
Therefore “ f “ is a factor that could stand for any other human disposition that is addictive; Politics, Football, Religion or Music
This psychometric formula is copyrighted. Do
not use it for any other purpose except academic and always acknowledge the
originator; - Danmbaezue J. K. (1982) Fanaticism Scale Formula
Go ahead to these websites and read more on
mundane religions
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authoritative formulation of the beliefs of a religious community (or, by
transference, of individuals). The terms “creed” and “confession of faith” are
sometimes used interchangeably,...
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Religion, which is superstition sanctioned by the
state, is actually an addiction to man-made doctrines and dogmas invented,
patented and copyrighted by a few demagogues.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
The Creator has hidden so much from our intellectual faculties that to date we are still unravelling those He is allowing humanity to glimpse at through divine dreams, intuitions, inspirations and revelations to devout souls! Do you want to have supernatural knowledge mediated by spiritual faculties of seeing, feeling, sensing and caring for others? Look inwards, for the kingdom of God is inside you, not outside as many preachers tell you. No one ever got eternal bliss by keeping the commandments of men. It is given to altruistic seekers of that Divine Guidance in the affairs of mankind, which many yearn for but do not know where, when and how to find it. Search for it in this book!
The creator gave humans some of his powers and knowledge for recreating the material universe for the mutual benefits of all his created beings but today many use his gifts to perpetrate evil. Either by design or demonic manipulation, the obverse is the case; the first datum that every living thing recognises is that someone put it here and caters for its welfare. Dogs respect and fight in defence of their owners. Every pet realises that it is loved and taken care of by someone who has value for its existence. It is human who pride themselves of being rational beings that do not recognise, respect or realise that all of us have a single owner. It is absurd! Some believe there is an Almighty Creator who provides for each creature on daily basis, some assert that he has turned his back on us due to our congenital wickedness and cruel ways, while others simply deny his existence!
This is my summation of the problem; “Religion was/is a superstitious search by humanity for its origin, existence, meaning and relevance before the scientific era. The search was led by acclaimed sages among the elders of a community who defined its theories and practices. It is later ratified and recommended for legislation and implementation by state apparatus by convincing stratagem or coercion by politico-religious leaders. Thereafter, it is fine tuned and administered by ordained priests and priestesses who hand it down along ancestral lineages from one generation of lukewarm adherents, fanatics and mystics to another. Gradually, strong personalities emerge claiming divine appointment and so pull strong followers who idolise them as role models with supernatural powers. This obsession confirms them as beacons of adulation and finally leads to full scale idolatry.
INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul. There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism. These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal, inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors, explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking. Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised, respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from heaven’?
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul. There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism. These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal, inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors, explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking. Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised, respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from heaven’?
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MORE ENDEMIC AND RETROGRESSIVE THAN SIMPLE PHYSICAL SLAVERY!
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I HOPE YOU SAW THE OMMISSION OF " Y " IN CATEGORICALLY
ReplyDeleteIT IS PART OF BEING HUMAN!
WE ARE STILL AT THE PRELIMINARY STAGES OF PLANNING HOW TO FULLY LIBERATE ALL MANIKIND IN GENERAL, AND BLACK AFRICANS ACROSS THE GLOBE, IN PARTICULAR, ************* PROFESSOR JIDEOFO KENECHUKWU DANMBAEZUE CATEGORICALL STATES “HINC ET NUNC” THAT RELIGIO-POLITICAL-MENTAL SLAVERY IS MORE ENDEMIC AND RETROGRESSIVE THAN SIMPLE PHYSICAL SLAVERY!
WE SHALL OVERCOME SOMEDAY .... SOMEHOW ..... AND SOME TIME......
EPILOGUE ON AMERICAN APPLICATION OF THE ABOLITION OF SLAVE TRADE
ReplyDeleteThe USA abolished slavery only after its Civil War (aka ‘War between the States’) in 1865, although it is an over-simplification to attribute this war to slavery alone. Here it was a case of being slow to realize the implications of the Declaration of Independence which declared:
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.’
This is mainly because right at the start, many of the states were Slave States. All the same, as Carroll and Shiflett point out in Christianity on Trial, this deduction from Paul’s statement in Galatians 3:28 (above) would have been laughed at in pagan times. It was this declaration that led Lincoln to abolish slavery, citing it in the Gettysburg Address.
However, American slavers likewise realized the contradiction between slavery and the Declaration, so some of them invented schemes by which the black slaves were regarded as less than human. So in reality, it was more a case of slavery causing racism rather than racism causing slavery.
In 1857, the US Supreme Court, under Roger Brooke Taney (1777–1864) ruled in the ‘Dred Scott decision’ that Congress could not outlaw slavery in any territory—this was to be the territory’s ‘right’ after it had become a state. Also, slaves were defined as non-persons, and their descendants could not become citizens.
Later, this was rescinded, but it severely dented the moral authority of the Supreme court. And they haven’t learned either. In 1973, in Roe v. Wade, activist judges led by Harry Blackmun (who ironically had a cameo in Amistad) invented a ‘right to privacy’ supposedly found in the US Constitution, applied this to a woman’s womb, and decided that she has a right to abort her baby for any reason (which must logically include the reason, ‘We don’t want a girl’). In the process, the Court explicitly declared the unborn baby a non-citizen. I am convinced that one day, posterity will look upon Roe v. Wade with as much revulsion as the Dred Scott decision.
ALL THE PROJENNY OF CHARLES DARWIN ARE DESCENDANTS OF APES. ANALYTICALLY COMPARE THEIR FACES AND ARRIVE AT THE SAME CONCLUSION!
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue (2011)