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Originally Posted by dekeguy
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Does anyone else find this to be as deeply and fundamentally flawed as I do?
I find this to be grossly offensive to my convictions concerning the nature of Christianity and the two millenia of scholarship, careful consideration, and prayer on the sources and means of understanding the message of Christ.
What you want to believe and profess is your business and as an American I support your right to believe it. By the same token I assert my right to believe what I profess. What I challenge is your position that Christianity in the 21st Century is a recent construct filtered through the teachings of "white slave masters" of the early-18th Century to the mid-19th Century.
The historical Yeshua bar Yusef or Jesus, as we now refer to Him, was a swarthy complected, dark curley haired Semite. Not exactly the blond blue eyed Northern European type by any means. The message He gave to all of us was to love the Lord our God and to love our neighbors as ourselves.
So, What is Christianity? Christianity is the acceptance of Jesus Christ as the Son of God and the acceptance of His blueprint regarding how we should see and act upon our relationship with God and our fellow human beings. Where did it come from? From the teachings of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, handed down to us by the Apostles and their successors carefully studying and preserving the scriptures and traditions of the earliest time of His revelations. Not the filtered interpretations of "white slave masters".
What I personally profess is fairly well summed up in the Creed from the Council of Nicea which in the 4th Century A.D. promulgated this simple statement of what a Christian believes:
"I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, and born of the Father before all ages. God of God, light of light, true God of true God. Begotten not made, of one in being with the Father, by whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven. And was incarnate of the Holy Ghost and of the Virgin Mary and was made man; was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, suffered death and was buried; and the third day rose again according to the Scriptures. And He ascended into heaven, where He sits at the right hand of the Father, and shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, of whose Kingdom there shall be no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who spoke by the Prophets. And I believe in one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the remission of sins. And I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen."
OK, You have had your say and I have had mine. I would however suggest that if you are going to propose your interpretation of Christianity and its origin and development you might want to support your argument with historical fact clearly traceable through 2000 years rather than by simply playing the race card. Considering the centuries of persecution suffered by
all shades of Christians for the faith of Christ, and the ancient seats of Christianity in Africa and Asia, that card cuts with a two edged sword!
AMDG
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No, I am not pulling any race card, sir. If I was, what would be wrong with me pulling the race card? Your people have been pulling the race card for the past four centuries and still continue to pull the race card that seems to always be in your favor. Now, you tell me, how many people with blonde hair and blue eyes were living in the Middle East during the time of Jesus? It is impossible for there to have ever been a blonde hair, blue eyed Jesus... something that the slave master instilled in the minds of black people. My people were also directly and indirectly taught (by the slave master) to hate their natural black selves. "Black is bad". Wear white to weddings, and black to funerals. Devil's food cake is black and angel's food cake is white. If I know something bad about you, I could "blackmail" you. You can tell a little "white lie", but you better not tell a big bold "black lie". Do you see the psychology in this? My people were conditioned (by the slave master) to hate everything about themselves that was natural and black. We hate our black beauty because we were taught to define our own beauty according to these white, anglo, caucasoidal, European, westernized, beauty standards. As an example: a white, blonde hair, blue eyed Jesus. This means that anything less than blue eyes and blonde hair is considered less than beautiful. The further you get away from blonde hair and blue eyes, the uglier you get. This is what we were taught. This means that if you got black eyes, black, tight, nappy hair and dark black skin, you are the ugliest thing on the planet. What is sad is the slave master was successful in the brainwashing of black people and this still continues to this very day. As an example: Chris Rock’s "Good Hair" movie. The question I have to my people is why do we want to look like the slave master?...the murderous, cold-blooded, rapist "mutha-fucka". I said rapist "mutha-fucka" for a reason, not just to use foul language. I am speaking the truth. Let me define what a "mutha-fucka" is. A "mutha-fucka" is an individual who is the "fucka of muthas". The white man is a historical "fucka of muthas" around the world. A historical rapist. He was the "fucka" of our "fore-muthas". This is why we come in so many different shades of black now. I find it to be sad that we want to look like, and worship (the image of a white Jesus), the same image type of people who hung us from trees. I'm not arguing your religious beliefs. What I am saying is we have been taught that Jesus is white, with blue eyes, and blonde hair, when that is impossible. I am not using any race card, sir, I am only speaking the truth. I have not lied about anything here.