Beneath the Spin*Eric L. Wattree
EXCELLENCE IS THE KEY TO BLACK EQUALITY
WAKE UP, PEOPLE, AND STOP PUTTING MAN BEFORE GOD
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ABOUT CHRISTIANS, THE BIBLE, AND GOD
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The hearts of Black Christians are in the right place. I know, because I was raised by Christians, and I’m also a man of God. But we learned about God in the wrong way, and from the wrong people. Look at how ungodly the people are who taught us about God. As they taught us to love thy neighbor, they were lynching us on a whim, and as they taught us how to do unto others, they held us in bondage. So how can we even begin to believe in the nonsense they taught us?
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They've taught us as children to have "faith" in their word, and if we didn’t believe, it would anger God and he would condemn us to burn in the pits of Hell throughout eternity. But that's nonsense on many levels. God doesn't need a book to speak to us. He speaks to us through our hearts and our minds.
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PRAY IN PRIVATE
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"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. ... But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” MATTHEW 6
WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
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These people have proven that they're using religion to try to place THEY'RE will into God's mouth. So get up off your knees and stop beggin' God to bend to your desires. God did his part when he gave you a brain, so the rest is up to you. God didn't created us to go around whinin' and beggin'. He created us to hold our heads high and use our common sense to face reality and solve our own problems, not to try to get him to make bigotry prevail. That's one of the many things wrong with religion - in addition to it being a total myth - it turns us into a bunch of sniveling whiners who beg for God to let us have our way. That's not God's will - it's man's.
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So following religion is not how God intended for the world to work. If you're walking down a railroad track and see a train coming, you have two choices - you can either test your "faith," by falling on your knees and praying for God to stop the train, or you can use the common sense that God bestowed upon you and get the hell out the way. God created us to choose the latter. Who needs a child around who's always testing our love? Such a child would be a pain in the ass.
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So, if you choose the first option, to fall on your knees and pray for God to stop the train, God's gonna let you be splattered all over the railroad track, because being stupid is ungodly. In addition, you chose to believe in the word of man over the common sense that God bestowed upon you, and that's an unforgivable sin. Regardless to what your preacher says, you can only know God's will by what God has done, and what God has done is made birds to fly, fish to swim, and man to think, not to simply have "faith" in the words of other men.
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Man creates his own problems by believing in the Voodoo he's been taught by other men. Instead of following the common sense bestowed upon him by God, he chooses to worship totem poles; and instead of using his money to feed his family, he goes out and buys his preacher a new Cadillac, because his preacher has convinced him that making him happy will make God happy. So man mindlessly goes about life trying to bribe his way into Heaven. But that's dumb. You can't bribe God! And worse, being dumb is ungodly. Ignorance and stupidity is the complete opposite of God's wisdom, and that makes it a damnable sin. The essence of Godliness is the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom. Thus, choosing to be stupid in an attempt to get into Heaven is against God's will.
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| IGNORE WHAT GOD GAVE YOU AND LISTEN TO MAN? |
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It’s especially important for Black people to understand this, because religion is the oldest form of brainwashing. Every religion is established to achieve the objectives of the culture that created it. That's why different cultures have different religions - and the primary religion that African-Americans follow was disseminated on plantations. That alone should tell Black people all they need to know, because the primary purpose of EVERY religion is to maintain the status quo, and the status quo, with respect to Black people, is at the bottom.
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"Yes sir, Massa. Why would anybody not love you, Sir? You so good to me, Massa. Anybody don't love you needs to have dey ass beat real good, Massa."
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"Shut up, nigga. I'm talkin'."
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"Listen, you been blessed already, and you don't even know the Lord. The Lord made it where you don't have to worry 'bout a thing. I feed you, I put clothes on yo nasty ass, and I give you a shed to sleep in, and all you have to do is whatever the hell I tell you to. Do you know how blessed you are?"
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"Oh, indeed I do, Massa. You takes good care of me. I's so happy."
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"Now, listen real good 'cause dis impotant. God said, thou shalt not steal from me, thou shalt not kill (unless I tell you to), thou shalt not stick another coon's wife (unless we tryin' to make some mo niggas), and nigga, whatever you do, thou shalt not even look like you want to stick a white woman, or we gon lynch yo black ass. You here me, nigga?"
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"Oh yes, Massa. We know dat! But Massa, I thought you said thou shalt not kill?"
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"Dat means people, fool - real people! Dat don't go for niggas. God wants us to keep you in yo place."
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"Dat's right, Massa. We sho gotta keep niggas in dey place. No tellin' what a happen if we let dese niggas git loose. God so smart."
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"I said shut up, nigga, and listen to the word."
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"The next thing you got to learn is, whatever happens on this plantation is God's will bein' done. And if you listen to me, you'll get to live like I do when you die and go to Heaven."
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"Live like you, massa? A nigga ain't got no business livin' dat good. What a Po nigga like me gon do with all this? You know I ain't got sense enough to run nothin' like this."
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"Just shut up, nigga!" When you dead you gon get some sense - the lord gon give it to you. The Lord can do anything, even give sense to a nigga. And he gon give you all the other niggas you gon need to help you in the fields, too."
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"Massa, you so good to me! Thank you for tellin' me all dis. I'm gon be a good nigga - the best nigga you ever seened. Look, I'm gon pray for you right now, and thank the Lord for givin' me so good a massa."
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"Shut up and get up off your knees, ya dumb nigga! The fields need tendin'! You pray to the Lord on your own time. God don't won't you talkin' to him when you s'pose to be workin'!"
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"A couse, Massa. What I be thinkin'? I's so dumb. I don't know why you put up with me, Sir."
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"How many times I got to tell you to shut the hell up, nigga?"
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"Yes Sir, I's a shuttin', Massa. I's a shuttin', right now."
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"Now get yo ass out there in that field and let's get some work done around here . . . Oh, and Toby, have yo woman meet me in the barn. I need to tell her 'bout the Lord too."
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"Yes sir, Massa."
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"And another thing, Toby, if my momma come a lookin', tell her I'm playin' in my tree house."
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"Why you gon go fibbin' to yo momma, Mr. Tommy? She knows you like to sit wit Lou Ann."
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"Just shut up, nigga, and do what I said! And tell Lou Ann to wear that pretty dress I like, cause we gon be talkin' 'bout the Lord, so it's gon be like chuch."
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"Yes Sir, Mr. Tommy." . . . "Whaaaaaaat a friend we have in Jeeeeesus . . ."
So if Black people ever hope to be liberated we're going to have to shed our tendency to believe in myths and learn to think efficiently. We're going to have to think our way out of oppression, not pray our way out. The only reason we were taught to pray in the first place was to keep us docile. That's why in spite of the fact that we've been trying to pray our way out of our current condition for over 400 years, it hasn't gotten us anywhere - and it never will.
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What we refer to as "The Holy Scriptures" is nothing more than the superstitious rantings of 3000-year-old dead men, and they didn't know any more about God than we do. They were simply the Pat Robertsons of antiquity. God didn't tell them anything that he won't tell you if you'd just sit down and think for a minute. That's how God communicates with us, through thought. He doesn't need a book.
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What man calls sin is actually ignorance, so if we teach ourselves to be efficient thinkers, we can defeat evil. The reason one man kills another man for money is because he's too ignorant to realize that money is not what life is about. Donald Trump has much more money than Barack Obama, but who do you think is happier, and more Godly?
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So you don't need a Bible to avoid sin, all you have to do is do what God created you to do - think, and learn to recognize stupidity when you see it. That's why God blessed you with a mind, but when you follow any preacher, you're letting the preacher do your thinking for you.
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So those who are referred to as "the faithful" should actually be called "the mindless," because they're blindly following what they were taught as children would keep the Bogeyman away. But we're adults now, so it's time to grow up and stop believing in fairytales.
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There are over 4200 religions in the world. If God had anything to do with any one of them there'd only be one. So stop being idiots. You're not fooling God, and being stupid won't get you into Heaven. The very word "faith" is man's way of saying, "Don't think - just believe what I tell you to believe." Think about that - how can people be so ignorant that they allow themselves to be taught not to think?
that's why convincing people to have faith is so hard, because it's unnatural. The primary reason that the various churches find it's so hard to convince people to have faith is because it's against God's will. They're trying to get man to do something that's against what God created him to do. God created man to think, not to just have faith in the words of other men.
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So consider what I've said. If you look anywhere around the globe, the most religious people in the world are also the most backward, ignorant, and undereducated, and what we call "The Bible Belt" here in the United States is the most bigoted part of the country. So stop worshiping totem poles and mindless idiots, and start thinking for a change. It might put your preacher's Cadillac dealer out of business, but you could save yourself a lot of money.
Eric L. Wattree
Http://wattree.blogspot.com
Religious bigotry: It's not that I hate everyone who doesn't look, think, and act like me - it's just that God does.