Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Friday, April 14, 2017
RELIGION
STOLEN RELIGION
"Religion" has been shanghaied, taken over, by wicked, evil men.
From its home in Africa, centuries ago, certain men, conquered, then colonized religion, remaking it in their own images and likenesses.
Jesus said in Matthew 11:12--
"From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has been subjected to violence, and the violent take it by force."
In effect, the original religion was raped by rapacious raiders, who used it to subjugate, consolidate, power over the conquered people.
I speak of that primordial religion of the true African people, which after a series of foreign invasions from 332 B.C. , starting with the Greeks under Alexander of Macedonia, through later Romans, Vandals and Visigoths, Arabs, Turks, Muslims, French, British. Each invader left its imprint on the people, and religion.