RELIGION: THE KEY TO WHITE SUPREMACY

Beneath the Spin * Eric L. Wattree

RELIGION: THE KEY TO WHITE SUPREMACY
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A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE THIS BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN SO BRAINWASHED OVER THE CENTURIES THAT WE SEE SHAKING OFF THE SHAKLES AS A SIN.   BUT THIS IS SO IMPORTANT FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND DURING THIS ERA OF DONALD TRUMP THAT I DECIDED TO UPDATE IT AND REPEAT IT.
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LET'S USE OUR CHURCHES TO ORGANIZE AND IMPROVE OUR LIVES, AND STOP TRYING TO USE THEM TO BEG THE LORD FOR HELP.  GOD DID HIS PART WHEN HE GAVE US A BRAIN, SO LET'S FOLLOW HIS WILL AND START USING IT.
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WE'VE GOT TO WAKE UP, PEOPLE - AND FAST.
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Ed,
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I assume that you’ve read the entire Bible, yet you consider what I have to say “shit” and not even worth the time to consider?  What’s the problem, am I not sufficiently White for you to accept the fact that God might find me worthy of speaking to?  If that's the way you feel, I can certainly understand it.  After all, if we base our assessment of God on the books in the Bible you love to thump, he only speaks to White men.  He never speaks to women, he never speaks to Black people, and he never speaks to Asians - at least, none of them are represented by books in the Bible.  And in spite of the fact that he sent his “only begotten son” to be born in the desert, both Jesus, and the entire population of the desert are portrayed as White. 
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So why is that important?  It's important because it clearly demonstrates that the Bible was the creation of man and not inspired by God, because God is neither a chauvinist nor a bigot.  So the Bible has man's fingerprints all over it.  As a result, it’s not a bit surprising that according to most portrayals that I’ve seen in your “Holy Book,” God bears a striking resemblance in both appearance, and disposition, to the people who taught us his “Holy word” while they had us tied next to the mules.  In other words, he bears a striking resemblance to a bigot, which has always given me pause (as it should also give you), and it leads me to believe that bigots created God in their own image.   
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But in spite of how your “Holy Bible” portrays him, God does speak to me.  He’s speaks to me constantly through the intellect that he bestowed upon me, and he tells me that your “Holy gospel” notwithstanding, we can only know his will through what he has done, and not through the self-serving words of man.  He says that he made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think, and any creature that fails to adhere to their nature cannot survive.  That’s why birds fly south in the winter - and without benefit of maps or a holy instruction manual.  They simply follow the innate prescription in which God created them to follow, and that allows them to survive in perfect harmony with nature - unlike man.  Man tries to re-write God's prescription to accommodate his own agenda for power, wealth, greed, and hubris, and that's where religion comes in.  That's why we have so many of them.  Wouldn't you think that if God put religion on Earth to guide mankind, there'd only be one of them?  Consider that.
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All of your religious beliefs are merely an accident of birth?  If you'd been born in Israel, chances are you'd be a Jew; if you'd been born in Iran you'd be a Muslim, or in China, a Buddhist.  So your religion isn't so much God-inspired as it is a result of the environment in which you were raised. You were SOCIALIZED into believing what you believe so passionately.  Thus, if you truly believe that a person born in Israel, Iran, or China is going to Hell because they weren't socialized to believe what you believe, you're delusional.  And if you believe that God sent a White Scandinavian with Blond hair and blue eyes to be born in the desert to instruct people of color in how they should live their lives, you're not only delusional, but you're stupid - if that had been the case, they wouldn't have had to crucify Jesus, he would have died of Sunburn.
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The Bible that Christians Worship today was compiled and “bless” by the Catholic Church, not God. Any book that disagreed with the Catholic Church was banned.  What Christians call "The Holy Bible," and what preachers run around thumping, wasn’t even compiled until almost 400 years after the death of Jesus.  So everything in it is hearsay.  In terms of years, at the time the Bible was compiled they were twice as far away from the life and times of Jesus Christ as we are away from the life and times of George Washington today.  So in reality, they didn’t know fact from fiction, any more than we know whether or not George Washington actually chopped down a cherry tree:
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"For the first 300 years of Christianity, there was no Bible as we know it today.  Christians had the Old Testament Septuagint, and literally hundreds of other books from which to choose.  The Catholic Church realized early on that it had to decide which of these books were inspired and which ones weren't.  The debates raged between theologians, Bishops, and Church Fathers for several centuries as to which books were inspired and which ones weren't.  In the meantime, several Church Councils or Synods, were convened to deal with the matter, notably, Rome in 382, Hippo in 393, and Carthage in 397 and 419.  The debates sometimes became bitter on both sides.  One of the most famous was between St. Jerome, who felt the seven books were not canonical, and St. Augustine who said they were.  Protestants who write about this will invariably mention St. Jerome and his opposition, and conveniently omit the support of St. Augustine.  I must point out here that Church Father's writings are not infallible statements, and their arguments are merely reflections of their own private opinions. When some say St. Jerome was against the inclusion of the seven books, they are merely showing his personal opinion of them.  Everyone is entitled to his own opinion.  However, A PERSONS PRIVATE OPINION DOES NOT CHANGE THE TRUTH AT ALL.  There are always three sides to every story, this side, that side, and the side of truth.  Whether Jerome's position, or Augustine's position was the correct position, had to be settled by a third party, and that third party was the Catholic Church.
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"Now the story had a dramatic change, as the Pope stepped in to settle the matter.  In concurrence with the opinion of St. Augustine, and being prompted by the Holy Spirit, Pope St. Damasus I, at the Council of Rome in 382, issued a decree appropriately called, "The Decree of Damasus," in which he listed the canonical books of both the Old and New Testaments.  He then asked St. Jerome to use this canon and to write a new Bible translation which included an Old Testament of 46 books, which were all in the Septuagint, and a New Testament of 27 books"
(http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080928064041AATOZUD).
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SO THE POPE HAD SPOKEN, AND THE ISSUE WAS SETTLED.  THUS, WHAT CHRISTIANS REFER TO AS "THE HOLY BIBLE" IS NOT THE WORD OF GOD, IT'S THE WORD OF POPE DAMASUS I.
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The gift of intellect is God’s most precious blessing to mankind, but you’re taking it and slapping him in the face with the very blessing that he bestowed upon you by choosing man’s words over God’s deeds.  You’d rather have “faith” in man’s contrived tales of walking dead men, talking snakes, and demons than to use the common sense that God bestowed upon you to recognize that demons don’t exist, dead men don't walk, and snakes don't talk, and they never did - period!  Thus, you don’t believe in God, you believe in man.  You’ve let man convince you that if you ever doubt his word by having the audacity to cave-in to GOD’S will that you use common sense and intellect to guide your life, that the Boogie Man’s gonna get you and drag you into eternal damnation.  That’s the kind of tactic that’s used to manipulate children - fear.  But you’re a thinking adult, so wake up. 
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It's all a farce.  Think about it.  In spite of all the nonsense man preaches about “loving thy neighbor,” if a slave walked out of the field on a Sunday morning and into a so-called “house of God,” and then sat next to a White woman to worship the Lord, the preacher would stop his sermon on “loving thy neighbor” mid sentence, just long enough to lynch him.  So I respectfully submit, sir, that you’ve been thoroughly brainwashed - and most Black people have been brainwashed.  We’ve been brainwashed into hating ourselves, because the underlying message in Christianity is Black is evil, and White is pure and holy.   That’s why they portray Jesus as White, and wearing all white, in spite of the fact that he was born in the desert (can you just imagine what that flawlessly clean white robe would look like in the desert!!!?).   So if you can't even trust them to tell you what he looked like, how can you trust them to tell you what he said?  Yes, there is a passage in the Bible that says his hair was like sheep's wool, but how often do you hear that passage, and how is he portrayed?  As a child when I said my prayers, I pictured myself praying to, and worshiping, a White man with long flowing blond hair.  That's how our minds were stolen.
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Now, I can see children believing in Santa Claus, but to see so many allegedly educated grown people enthusiastically embracing this utter nonsense is freighting.  It proves that man can get other men to believe in anything. As a direct result, none of us are safe. We’re not safe from our  children being shot down in the street, or sent to foreign lands to die for the profit of other men, or being blown up by various and sundry lunatics and religious fanatics who have other beliefs, as we’re currently seeing all over the world.  The vast majority of all of the bigotry, pain, suffering, and hatred in the world can be traced directly back to religion - or the word of man.  So while I’m a firm and passionate believer in God (every morning at 3:30 a.m. I go into my back yard and commune with him as I stare out into the universe and into his face), you can spare me the Christian Voodoo.  That’s not for me.  It smells far too much like the man who enslaved my people, and who is keeping them mentally enslaved to this day.
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But when I debate preachers on this issue, they try to conflate themselves with God by wrapping themselves, the Bible, and God into one neat little bundle as though they are one. They asks, "Where's your faith?  Don't you believe in the word of God (as though it goes without saying that the Bible is the word of God)!!!?"  My response is, I don't have to have "faith" in God.  You only have to have faith where there's doubt, but I KNOW that God exists without any doubt.  God is whatever being, entity, or force that is responsible for creating the universe and what we refer to as reality.  So the mere fact that you and I exists is irrefutable evidence of the existence of God.  So the only question that begs to be asked is, whether or not I have faith in you and your "Holy book," and the answer to that question is definite and unequivocal - absolutely not.
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So every time I see Black people dancin’, and shoutin’, and cryin’ in church, it makes me want to throw up, because I know it’s all based on ignorance and a self-serving lie.  And it’s no accident that the most devout Christians either live in the South, came from the South, or were raised by people from the South, because that’s where the brainwashing tradition was most pronounced. The more undereducated and country a person is, the more likely he or she is to be a devout and unthinking Christian.
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What they don’t understand is, regardless to what the preacher says, they can neither pray their way into Heaven, out of poverty, or out of any other kind of adversity.  God did his part when he gave them a brain. So they've got to think their way out of adversity, and since God already blessed them with the tools to do that, it's not only senseless, but ungrateful, lazy and greedy trying to beg God to do what they should be doing for themselves. But preachers keep them in that mind-set because it keeps them coming back to church and paying the preacher to help them "speak to Jesus."  The only reason people can't see through this transparent game is because they were born playing it - their mother and father played it, their grandparents played it, and all the people around them are playing it.  So they need to step back and take an honest look at their belief-system with the common sense that God bestowed upon them.
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"God helps those who help themselves."  A perfect example of that axiom is if a man is sitting on a rail road track and he sees a train coming, if he decides to get on his knees and try to pray that God stops the train instead of using his God-given common sense to get out of the way, he’s gonna to perish.  That’s just how the universe works.  But many Black people are doing exactly like that man on the rail road track, perishing, as a direct result of trying to pray their way out of adversity instead of using their God-given ability to think.  That mind-set was instilled in us while we were in slavery when White folks used to tell us not to worry about how bad we were being treated.  They'd say, “Just put your faith in the Lord, and you’ll get yours by and by.”  Many Black people embraced that philosophy and they're still clinging to it today.  That's why, in spite of our intellect, we're at the very bottom of the social ladder.
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One of the primary reasons we're still clinging to that ridiculous philosophy is because instead educating Black people to reality, again, many Black churches are using that very same game to fleece Black people themselves.  The preacher will simply give them an inspirational spoken-word concert and a little entertainment on Sunday morning (because when emotion, or the "holy ghost," walks through the front door, intellect flies out the back window), and then once he's got them sufficiently emotional, he'll convince them that if they simply pay him enough money he’ll help them to “grow in their faith” to the point where God will stop the train. Well, it ain’t gonna happen, and the preacher knows it - but he doesn’t have to worry about the people ever figuring that out because he’s already convinced them to believe in talkin’ snakes, and neither does he ever have to worry about anybody coming back from the dead (like he claims Jesus did) to tell them that he's been lying to them.  So it’s the perfect hustle.
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So let us be clear.  You cannot pay admission into Heaven or fool the creator, regardless to how loud you shout “Praise the Lord!” on Sunday morning.  If you want to carry out God’s will, you’ll use your common sense to make this a better world.  Instead of making your preacher rich, and trying to lie to God, you'll pay your tithes to the hungry family of your neighbor who just lost his job, help provide shelter for the homeless, demand that your church remain open seven days a week to provide community services, stop supporting entertainers, athletes, and businesses that don’t support the community, and organize to turn out ruthless politicians. That's praising God, and if we all did that we could answer our own prayers.  But instead, we embrace the Bible and the following kind of self-serving nonsense written by man:

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“Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear. Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.” - Ephesians 6:5

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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son” - John 3:16

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FIND EARTH
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God neither wrote, nor inspired, that nonsense.  It was inspired by the self-interest of self-serving and greedy men, the very same kind of self-serving and greedy men that exist today (if they were around today they'd probably be on Trump's transition team).  God created you to be your own master, but you don't believe in God, you believe in the word of man, simply because you've been convinced that the men who wrote and compiled the Bible had some kind of special connection with God because they lived and died 2000 years ago.  Embracing such nonsense is why Black people are suffering, and will continue to suffer, until they wake up and demand that their preachers stop preaching them a sermon, and start living them one.

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DEDICATED TO ELDER HAMPTON, A HUMBLE, BUT TRUE MAN OF GOD

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"IF YE WERE ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN,
YE WOULD DO THE WORKS OF ABRAHAM"  - JOHN 8:39

Eric L. Wattree

Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Ewattree@Gmail.com
Citizens Against Reckless Middle-Class Abuse (CARMA)
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Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.

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