OLD TIME RELIGION

OLD TIME RELIGION Cosmic cultural decapitation is a cultural estrangement from God. Once estranged from the Creator, from natural order of creation, that culture loses its self-orientation, loses self-confidence, knowledge. That culture becomes vulnerable to inner disease, conquest, genocide, delusion, enslavement, destruction. Fortunately, a few within our former cosmically, culturally, decapitated people were able to retain the vital spiritual connection to former old Gods by inspirations, imagination, association with natural resources, events, lives and faith experiences. Thereby they are able to retain the "old time religion that was good for Paul and Silas, the Hebrew Children and that is good enough for me!" Covertly, secretly, in brush arbors , in out of the way places, they met each other and met with each other and began to plot , plan, pray, sing, adduce a means to liberation from slavery to a better life for their own. They invented coded language, coded symbols, coded worship to camouflage their deepest designs and desires for freedom. Many just ran away. These tens of thousands of fleeing, fugitive spirits angered their owners, so maddeningly that the acts and facts of rebellion and runaways, made them secede and declare war on their former nation. These intuitive spiritual retentions help to explain the miracle of our people's transplant from Africa to the Americas for centuries and to explain our own incredible spiritual survival despite another century of subjugation after chattel slavery's termination in 1865 till 1960's laws. They also explain how our cosmic cultural retentions as embellished, as refracted in American history were seminal to our liberation and present status as African American citizens . We have still got "one more river to cross,"however! That is the river of reparations for our stolen legacy, property, lost wages. Our cosmic cultural retentions that brought us here to 2019 will see us through into 2020 & years ahead!