The Arrogant Intellect Of The High Anthropoids

Religion, is a powerful opiate. Most religious people end up at a place of "I am right, going to Paradaise, so don't confuse me with facts". How many wars are there that have been fought and are being fought today, that are being fought without a imbeded religious component to them? It is time for indepth religious introspection by all religious people, for religion in and of itself should not be the aim ... The latter binds, but does not make one free from the machinations of the mind or the human ego.  Remember the saying, "the number one device of Satan is deception"? ! believe that there have been, and still are more religious people, that have been deceived (even in Christianity), than those who have not followed religion at all - particularly when the religion that is being practiced, leads one to the place of intolerance or I and my circle are the only ones who are right?  Many of the individuals who composed texts ... were of a similar, I am right mindset.  End of the world again, "and I study nothing else but the Bible" Rev. Camping, comes to mind ...  And he still won't stop prognosticating or pontificating, in spite of reality!

Solomon

Whatever Should One Do in A Nation or Ministry Where  Capital or Capitalism is Non-Existent?

Similar to the American (maximizing profits and the accumulation of wealth) idol, I have yet to discover a mega ministry yet, where the spirit of capitalism is not its idol. 


As a post-modern minister, yet a student of religion, it appears to me that 'money', instead of Jesus is king in the mega movement. In it, 'money answers all things', while Jesus is an after thought. Observe, more time is spent talking about money, raising money and planning events that relates to money than God. Kweflo, preaches the following, "the money is coming"! Non-mega ministers and ministries, still teach and preach that, "Jesus is coming"! 


"Some people", not God, "have got to have it", as a measure of success "money, money, money". Is this a spirit of error? Let's keep a close watch on this bubble and money trend in the mega's? Observe their members and ask yourselves, which do they have more of, 'fruits of the spirit or money', fine cars and other non-salubrious accoutrement? And to individuals who would quote the scripture, 


'Money answers all things'. Whatever God you believe in, would laugh at that scripture. The 'money king', is a poor substitute in Christianity for 'the real King', wouldn't you think? Go and sell all you have, vs. go and accumulate all you can in the money changer temple, which is it? Just my opinion!


Test everything, let's see where this, preachers in personal jets, driving luxury cars, wearing Armani suits ... trend goes, for better is the end of a thing than the beginning and many of the megas, who rode the wave, in its current iteration are beginning to foreclose.  Imagine what could be done without the 'unrighteous' mammon, and a bit more faith (the substance of the thing hoped for, and the evidence of that which is unseen).  American Christian capitolists, should be very cautious - money, again, does not answer all things!


Solomon


Wave Offerings: Is it true, that on occasion, Pastor Kweflo Dollar, has his audiences to take out of their pockets and pursues, currency, to be hat is waved over their heads, while shouting, 'the money is coming, the money is coming? The shout inside of the church used to be, "Jesus is coming, Jesus is coming'.  Oops, and is this  a distraction and the spirit of error?

It's A Black Thang

Solomon's Eruption,  regarding the 'Failure of the Black Community To Do What It Needs To Do, as Opposed To Placing the Blame on Other Communities for Black Failure": in response to a thread in the Smiley and West Blog.

If our community, our womb and sustainer, was an empowered community, and if more individual black Americans would become empowered, instead of conceding power to any real or imagined superior foe, it wouldn't matter. The members of other non-white but empowered communities do not share similar fixations and obsessions. Blacks should be angry with the black family, a family that is failing them along with themselves.


As a result and similar to orphaned children, we look to and share our angst when it comes to other flawed communities as opposed to questioning the flaws and weakness of our own - the primary one that fails to give us what we need. It is the weakness in our community, and at times within individual members of our own communities that is more detrimental than any other community.


Remember our ancestors, who under incredible odds built schools, universities, were inventors, created towns ... What is our dependent and black community doing today, but complaining and blaming instead of overcoming any real or imagined foe! We simply need to 'get in the real world', admit and repair what is broken within our own incubator and flawed community, and sever our 'flawed dependency' on other real or imagined flawed communities; in other words we need to sever the umbilical cord and confront the source of the real problem.


As I once shared with visiting brothers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, all of us are dependents on white western paternalism, which is an admission if not a concession, that we don't, as a community, know what in the hell we are doing, among other things.  If you would, look into the mirror.  There, you will be staring into the face of one of the elemental contributors of the black family's failure to overcome any real or perceived enemy.


What happened to 'we shall overcome'?  I recognize, that oftentimes, our real enemy is us - white else do blacks often take black-flight to the suburbs and private schools.  Isn't that what many of our civil rights leaders, do?  Or are we conceding the following: we simply do not know how to overcome, as a community, internal and external foes and challenges.  Instead, we permit black murderers, rapists, drug-dealers, occupiers, pedophiles, oftentimes,  to control our communities, to murder spirit and individuals within our own communities!


Solomon


[I dedicate this piece to the memory of the late, Dr. Dorothy Height. Year after year, she would bring the black family together on the Capitol Mall in Washington DC, and make every effort to help to move us forward. I was frequently present at those gatherings.  She was just one among  many black women, some sung and others unsung, who worked and work tirelessly, to save the children who pass through their wombs!]