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There are so many things that irritated the heck out of me about this video. First of all nothing surprises me about people who believes in scientific racism which pins Black Indigenous People as inferior with low IQ's and if anyone believes in this rubbish is the ones with the low IQ.

Even this Black African who is presenting the video uses the word minority, what the heck did that come from? How do you get a minority out of humans in the first place unless you too believe in race science?

What is wrong with some of the Black People on earth today? Do they not do any type of research on their own? Do they even study anatomy and nature? This is very easy to realize that there's no separation of humanity no way possible can we even try to do this and be correct.

If you believe in this you are broadcasting to the world that you are a complete idiot and have no idea of how our natural world function. You missed the elementary biology class on mitosis and meiosis and how sexual selection works along with reproductive life. Yes, you will have to be the dumbest mother fucker on the planet to believe in that shit of being a different species of humans.

Only people who are this dumb are shit people who calls themselves white and those shit people who believes in creationism, no one else on earth can be this stupid.

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Alastor - Historical Trivia And Headcanons

Alastor was a mixed-race Creole man living in New Orleans, and was in his 30's/40's when he died in 1933. We don't know much else about him, but historical context can provide us with possible additional details:

The population of New Orleans in 1930 was 458,762, more than it is now. 27.2% of the people were black, 3.1% were foreign-born, and roughly half of America's bipoc population was unemployed thanks to the Great Depression. New Orleans' original Francophonication was still strong, and it was common to run into locals who only spoke French dialects (Cajun French, Louisiana Creole). The city has had a huge Chinatown, a small Little Italy, and multiple other districts known for their immigrant African/colonized French cultures.

The Jim Crow laws were heavily enforced, as was the 'One Drop' rule. If Alastor was a mixed race black man, he would not have been able to attend a white school, use the same public transport, and would have shopped at black-local stores and restaurants under threat of violence. If he was mixed with any other race, some Jim Crow laws didn't apply, but state or city laws might specify differently.

Just because Alastor wears a suit, it doesn't mean he was rich in life. Radio personalities often didn't earn a fortune. Unless he owned his own broadcast, he was paid by a private company for long shifts of hosting music, news, and radio plays. In 1930, 40% of households owned at least one radio, which means that a popular radio host would have been easily recognized.

If he was in his late 30's in 1933, he might have fought in WW1, so long as he was over the age of 21. Some cities gave veterans small benefits, or encouraged the community to give them jobs. This often did not include veterans of color.

New Orleans was famous for being one of the least Christian cities in America, thanks to its unique immigrant and slave population. Haitian-based faiths and practices (such as voudo), indigenous cultures, Asian Buddhism, and atheism were common. But Christianity was still the official, law-enforced religion. Schooling involved reading the Bible, laws were sworn to Jesus, etc.

Alastor's outfit in Hazbin Hotel isn't very accurate to real-life American men's fashions of the time. Back then, deviating from the norm with the smallest detail would have stuck out like a sore thumb - like his white-lined lapels. Men always wore a hat. They were allowed to go without a waistcoat, but not a jacket. Belts were becoming more popular than suspenders. The silhouette was bulkier than the slimmer, Italian cuts of our modern times, especially the pants. Hair was kept short, and oiled down in a side part. Americans preferred the clean shaven look. Ties were essential unless you were a blue-collar laborer. Colors were almost universally muted neutral tones for everyday wear. The most colorful textiles for men were sporting outfits, like a tennis jacket.

If Alastor was a middle-class single man, he likely would have lived in an inner-city apartment, in an ethnic neighborhood. He probably didn't own a car, and took public transit like the streetcars. If he owned a house, it would likely have been an inheritance, and even the more opulent houses of the time would have looked small and plain to our eyes.

Because of the Great Depression, unmarried men were becoming the norm, rather than the exception. Men of the community who were sought after but remained single were suspect to gossip, but less ire than you might think; in the '30s, American queer culture was going through a very sharp revival, escaping the rigid Victorian era and before the puritan 40's/50's. But as a mixed-race man, it may have been illegal for a white woman to marry him, as the Jim Crow laws forbade the marriage of white people and Black/Asian people.

A middle class city household would have had electricity, gas heating, indoor plumbing, but may not have had running taps or a gas stove. Even with decent means, Alastor might have been using a potbelly woodburning stove, a dry sink/washbasin, wooden bathtub, and did his own laundry instead of sending it to the neighborhood laundresses. He may or may not have bothered with an icebox. Fresh groceries needed to be cooked and eaten soon, as things like pasteurized milk or store refrigeration wasn't a thing.

If he had enough money, then he almost certainly hired maids or other servants. Whether the maid came over just once a week, or did the shopping and laundry every other day, hired help was much more common back then, especially if he had no wife.

The most popular musicians in 1933 were Bing Crosby, George Olsen, and Leo Reisman. As you might have noticed, it was trendy for the lead singer to be backed by an orchestra, not a 'band' of just four other people like today. The most popular radio shows were Dick Tracy, Sherlock Holmes, and Doc Savage. They were recordings the radio station would buy and then broadcast, or sometimes the actors were live on the air. The radio host was usually not the journalist - the production team was responsible for writing his script.

Today's queer saint of the day (originally posted to my ~spicy Christian memepage~) is Dr. James Barry: British Empire army surgeon, public health advocate, transgender man, and physical embodiment of "queer as in fuck you."

Dr. Barry's biography is available elsewhere, so I won't go into it too deeply here. If you want an entertaining look into his life and work, I recommend the Sawbones podcast episode #178. Instead, I'm going to use this post to situate Dr. Barry's life into the broad sweep of the Anglican tradition.

I've posted before about how the Anglican Church of the early 19th century was an insular and socially ineffective arm of the British aristocracy. Nevertheless, its rites and philosophies were an important part of public life, regardless of how individuals felt about God or the Church--especially for agents of the British Crown, which Dr. Barry was. Outright "atheism" was still rare.

In my research I was not able to find much about his personal religiosity, but Dr. Barry would have been familiar with the scriptures and the Book of Common Prayer. Besides this, he embodied the ideals of Enlightenment humanism, which remain inextricably intertwined with Anglicanism both in the past and continuing into the present.

Dr. Barry was ethnically Irish, and his family experienced anti-Irish and anti-Catholic discrimination. It was thanks to liberal-minded family friends that James was first able to become James, enter medical school, and become a commissioned officer in the British Army. Wherever he was posted, public health improved, because Dr. Barry was a tireless advocate for women, the poor, and enslaved people.

Dr. Barry was constantly getting into fights, and sometimes literal pistol duels, with people who challenged him. (This is a common theme in biographies of historical trans men.) He even got into a fight with Florence Nightingale, who is officially recognized as an Anglican saint for doing a lot of the same work that Dr. Barry did. Dr. Barry is also famous for being the first Westerner to perform a C-section in which the mother and child both survived. This was a procedure that had been successfully practiced in Africa for hundreds of years before colonization, and since Dr. Barry's procedure was performed in colonial South Africa, I don't think it's unlikely that he learned from African traditional medical practitioners as well as Western academic medicine. Coming from a colonized background himself, it may have been easier for him to respect colonized African people than it was for other British imperialists. He embodies what Anglicanism can be at its best: tolerant, curious, courageous, innovative, and orthopraxic. Even during the brutal height of the British Empire, these ideals shone through the darkness, and can be an example for us today.

Dr. Barry's story is also important in an age of resurgent British fascism, particularly the anti-trans sentiment that has earned it the nickname of "TERF Island." He was a trans man, not a "woman who disguised herself as a man in order to become a doctor." He lived as a man, wanted to die as a man, and is remembered as a man on his gravestone. To erase that reality is to erase trans people from the past, present, and future--which is exactly what fascists want. We must not allow that to happen.

I'm exiting Christianity, but when I look at Paganism, I see so much of it is tainted by leftist morons and Wiccans? How do you bypass all of that and find authentic Paganism?

Disclaimer for all of my Christian mutuals: please understand this is not a personal attack, but this is my deep, true belief on this matter.

Well anon, congratulations on what will probably be one of the most difficult, but joyful, journeys of your life. You’ve already got the first step down, which is a major accomplishment: you’ve recognized that there is a lot of bullshit and misinformation around paganism. It’s a beautiful mosaic covered in grime and thorny, ugly, vines. So get ready for your hands to get dirty, and get ready to bleed. One of the great tragedies of paganism is that, despite what some think, the line hasn’t been broken, but it’s been heavily damaged and beaten almost beyond recognition. So my personal advice to you is:

1. Do not trust anyone that claims that paganism is a free-for-all, open religion.

Paganism is an ancestral religion. In fact, I was speaking to a friend about this a couple days ago, your ancestors probably didn’t really have the terms “religion” and “atheism” or “atheist” in their lexicon. Your ancestral gods are your progenitors. Are you alive? Is there warm blood in your veins? Then your gods are also alive too. To quote my friend “atheism only works if your gods are a separate, non-tangible thing. You cannot believe in your ancestry and blood. You can see it and feel it. It’s material.” Your ancestors, the spirits of the land and of the waters, the gods, are there whether you acknowledge it or not.

The problem with leftist “pagans” is that they come over from Christianity, but they still keep a Christian mindset, which is that, they believe that all the gods are for everyone. One of the most fundamental differences between Christianity and European paganism is that to accept Christianity means that you accept that Jesus Christ is for everyone. A Christian Norwegian, a Christian Irishman, a Christian Native American, a Christian Korean and a Christian Ethiopian are brothers in Christ. But a Christian Norwegian and a pagan Norwegian are no longer brothers according to Christianity. If you are a Christian convert, your pagan mother and father are sinners that will go to hell. You will not find them in the afterlife. In fact, it might even be your duty to separate yourself from them, from your entire family, if they refuse to accept Christ.

“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” - Matthew 10:34-37 KJ

I, as a pagan, do not abide by this. Your ties to your family, your gens, your tribe of people are the MOST important thing you have on this Earth. Our ancestral gods do not tell us to eschew our own family for them. Remember this any time you have doubts. Christianity does not originate in Europe. I don’t know how to stress this enough. It is anti-European. The more you learn about it, the more you will see that.

(And going along in this vein, does that mean a Christian Englishman should let his daughter marry a Christian African over a pagan Englishman? Ponder that one.)

So how do leftist pagans fit in with this? Well, they think that the entire, giant pantheon of European gods are a free-for all. They aren’t. If you are Germanic, you worship Germanic gods. If you are Slavic, you worship Slavic gods. Wiccanism (which deserves its own separate post) cherry-picked from Celtic, Norse, Near-East/Babylonian and Greco-Roman paganism, then splashed all that with Thelema and Khabbalah, and anyone can join. TRUE paganism is a closed religion. Odin is the progenitor of all Germanic people. If you have no Germanic blood, you don’t belong to him. So why would you worship him? It’s a whole other separate post, but it goes back to the leftist mindset that everything should be for everyone all the time. It’s RACIST to say that a quirky black girl in the US can’t worship Odin! But how so? I believe everyone has the right, and should, worship their own ancestral gods.

2. Do not trust monists, do not trust people that argue that European paganism should all be smushed together into a few archetypal figures and worshipped that way. The gods are real, they are not archetypes or representatives of something.

Yes, this is a thing that’s actually happening, and it’s probably going to be the first real schism of the pagan world.

3. Do not trust anyone that tells you that paganism is an OwO so soft and kind and gentle, non-judgmental way of life, as opposed to big meanyhead Christianity with all their hard rules!!! 👿. You might or might not know that Tacitus wrote of the Germanic tribes he observed that some criminals were punished by hanging, whereas some crimes (sodomy, for instance) were so disgusting that they were punished by bog drowning. Pagans absolutely had standards of upright, moral behavior long before they had interactions with Abrahamic religions. Just because there might not be an official written, surviving codification of those rules doesn’t mean they didn’t exist. This is unfortunately something you run into with pre-Christian Europe: oral tradition was often disrupted, therefore, modern pagans have no direct way to obtain it. And don’t think for a second either that illiterate = stupid. Druids had to undergo YEARS of training in religion, history, herblore/medicine, and law memorization, probably much more than the modern man could muster, before they were allowed to practice.

4. Most of all, do not listen to anyone who tells you that you MUST follow this religion or that. You CANNOT leave church, you MUST be a Baptist and not any other kind of Christian, you MUST be a Muslim, you MUST be a pagan. Only you and the gods alone know the yearnings of your own heart. Spend time thinking about why you want to leave Christianity, go on walks, pray and meditate, journal about it. Ask yourself what specific things you have problems with, and explore those. You would be shocked how well writing your thoughts down can help you think and articulate those thoughts to yourself and others.

Now, as to good sources that aren’t tainted by Wiccanism, I recommend going straight to the fonts: Read the best translations of myths and sagas you can find. read as unbiased academic papers on history and myth as you can. I highly recommend Telegram for fantastic discussions that really delve into paganism. I can make a separate post detailing all of the channels that I follow. I like Telegram quite a bit because I find that the pages I follow cite their sources pretty diligently, which means you can go and read the source for yourself. If you’d like to remain anonymous, send me another anon and I’ll post the Telegram list, if you’re comfortable messaging me, I can message you that list, and give you some better ideas of specific texts to read if I know which branches of European paganism you’re wanting to explore.

5. If you see a blog that talks about “working with” a god rather than worshipping them, block on site.

6. You know what, just block all Wiccans. Fuck them.

Remember that you are not alone. What you feel, I suspect, is shared by many Westerners, who feel in their blood the secret wild yearning to return to the ways of their ancestors. They might not know that’s what it is. What that nearly ungraspable thing inside them calls for, but I think if more people were made aware that there’s another thing out there, not Christianity, not atheism, not Islam, but another, half-hidden, secret thing, they might be able to give a name to their longing.

Good luck, sorry for the very long reply. And welcome home.

A Raisin in the Sun is a story about time. Lorraine Hansberry examines tradition, innovation, and assimilation through the intergenerational divide of the Younger family. Each member of the family has (and represents) a different perspective on the culture, heritage, and direction of the African American Diaspora. Mama still remembers her unfulfilled “dreams” that she and Big Walter hoped her children will “make worthwhile,” but it isn’t clear that they will. A Raisin in the Sun is not the story of a woman who has “deferred” her own “dream”. I posit that Mama’s dream was deferred by her children when they replaced it with new dreams. 

By “dream,” I mean one of a person’s most cherished aspirations. Mama and Big Walter dreamed about “not being lynched and getting to the North… [with] a pinch of dignity”. But more than that, Mama dreamed about “buying [a] house and fixing it all up and making… a little garden in the back”. Their dreams were about survival, dignity, and family. These dreams are closely related to their Christian African American culture. When she describes her views on abortion, which are clearly in tune with her faith, Mama says “we a people who give children life, not who destroys them”. She specifically associates her values with her notion of a “people,” by which she means not only her family, but also their race, community, and heritage. They are African Americans, distinct both from white Americans and continental Africans. Mama views history as a slow, but relentless progression of the rights of her people. She expects children will be “the fruit of her days,” and follow the example she and Big Walter set. As she tells Walter, “I’m waiting to see you stand up and look like your daddy…”. She correctly believes her children have opportunities that she did not. However, Mama is mistaken when she assumes that her children will make the same choices that she would have made if she had those opportunities. Her children interact with other cultures, religious ideas, and social circles. The result is that they have developed their own worldviews and their own dreams. Mama wants a house. Walter’s dream stands in the way. 

Walter’s dream is financial prosperity—money “is life” in his mind, and he believes in no limits to ambition, not even the limits of morality. As he tells his distraught mother, “there ain’t nothing but taking in this world,” and Walter is determined to take as much as he can get his hands on. He wants “to hang some real pearls ‘round [his] wife’s neck”. While Walter vehemently proclaims hedonistic nihilism, the belief that nothing matters other than pleasure, Beneatha assures her mother that her new worldview—atheism—is in line with order and morality. Beneatha stresses that she is “not going out and be [sic] immoral or commit crimes” because she has turned her back on Christianity. Beneatha dreams of achieving human greatness. “There is only man,” Beneatha proclaims, “and it is he who makes miracles”. She wants to become a doctor and participate in the miracle of healing, which she regards as “the most marvelous thing in the world”. 

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The main forms of religious belief are:

Theism:

The belief in the existence of one or more divinities or deities, which exist within the universe and yet transcend it. These gods also in some way interact with the universe (unlike Deism), and are often considered to be omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent. The word "theism" was first coined in the 17th Century to contrast with Atheism. Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, Baha'i and Zoroastrianism are all theistic religions.

Monotheism:

The view that only one God exists. The Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), as well as Plato's concept of God, all affirm monotheism, and this is the usual conception debated within Western Philosophy. Jews, Christians and Muslims would probably all agree that God is an eternally existent being that exists apart from space and time, who is the creator of the universe, and is omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), omnibenevolent (all-good or all-loving) and possibly omnipresent (all-present). The religions, however, differ in the details: Christians, for example, would further affirm that there are three aspects to God (the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit).

Exclusive Monotheism: The belief that there is only one deity, and that all other claimed deities are distinct from it and false. The Abrahamic religions, and the Hindu denomination of Vaishnavism (which regards the worship of anyone other than Vishnu as incorrect) are examples of Exclusive Monotheism.

Inclusive monotheism: The belief that there is only one deity, and that all other claimed deities are just different names for it. The Hindu denomination of Smartism is an example of Inclusive Monotheism.

Substance Monotheism: The belief (found in some indigenous African religions) that the many gods are just different forms of a single underlying substance.

Pantheism:

The belief that God is equivalent to Nature or the physical universe, or that everything is of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God. The concept has been discussed as far back as the time of the philosophers of Ancient Greece, including Thales, Parmenides and Heraclitus. Baruch Spinoza also believed in a kind of naturalistic pantheism in which the universe, although unconscious and non-sentient as a whole, is a meaningful focus for mystical fulfillment.

Panentheism:

The belief (also known as Monistic Monotheism), similar to Pantheism, that the physical universe is joined to God, but stressing that God is greater than (rather than equivalent to) the universe. Thus, the one God interpenetrates every part of nature, and timelessly extends beyond as well. The universe is part of God, but not all of God. The word (which can be translated as "all in God") was coined by the German philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) in 1828 in an attempt to reconcile Monotheism and Pantheism.

Deism:

A form of monotheism in which it is believed that one God exists, but that this God does not intervene in the world, or interfere with human life and the laws of the universe. It posits a non-interventionist creator who permits the universe to run itself according to natural laws. Deism derives the existence and nature of God from reason and personal experience, rather than relying on revelation in sacred scriptures or the testimony of others, and can maybe best be described as a basic belief rather than as a religion in itself. The roots of Deism lie with Heraclitus and Plato, but it was also popular with the natural theologists of 17th Century France and, particularly, Britain, who rejected any special or supposedly supernatural revelation of God.

Pandeism: The belief that God preceded the universe and created it, but is now equivalent to it - a composite of Deism and Pantheism.

Panendeism is a composite of Deism and Panentheism. It holds that, while the universe is part of God, it operates according to natural mechanisms without the need for the intervention of a traditional God, somewhat similar to the Native American concept of the all- pervading Great Spirit.

Polydeism: The belief that multiple gods exist, but do not intervene with the universe - a composite of Deism and Polytheism.

Misotheism:

The belief that a God or gods exist, but that they are actually evil. The English word was coined by Thomas de Quincey in 1846. Strictly speaking, the term connotes an attitude of hatred towards the god or gods, rather than making a statement about their nature.

Dystheism:

The belief that a God or gods exist, but that they are not wholly good, or possibly even evil (as opposed to eutheism, the belief that God exists and is wholly good). Trickster gods found in polytheistic belief systems often have a dystheistic nature, and there are various examples of arguable dystheism in the Bible.

Ditheism (or Duotheism):

The belief in two equally powerful gods, often, but not always, with complementary properties and in constant opposition, such as God and Goddess in Wicca, or Good and Evil in Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism. The early mystical religion Gnosticism is another example of a ditheistic belief of sorts, due to their claim that the thing worshipped as God in this world is actually an evil impostor, but that a true benevolent deity worthy of being called "God" exists beyond this world.

Polytheism:

The belief in, or worship of, multiple gods (usually assembled in a pantheon). These gods are often seen as similar to humans (anthropomorphic) in their personality traits, but with additional individual powers, abilities, knowledge or perceptions. Hard Polytheism views the gods as being distinct and separate beings, such as in Ancient Greek Mythology. Soft Polytheism views the gods as being subsumed into a greater whole, as in most forms of Hinduism.

Henotheism: The devotion to a single god while accepting the existence of other gods, and without denying that others can with equal truth worship different gods. It has been called "monotheism in principle and polytheism in fact".

Monolatrism (or Monolatry): The belief in the existence of many gods, but with the consistent worship of only one deity. Unlike Henotheism, Monolatrism asserts that there is only one god who is worthy of worship, though other gods are known to exist.

Kathenotheism: The belief that there is more than one deity, but only one deity at a time should be worshipped, each being supreme in turn.

Animism:

The belief that souls inhabit all or most objects (whether they be animals, vegetables or minerals). Animistic religions generally do not accept a sharp distinction between spirit and matter, and assume that this unification of matter and spirit plays a role in daily life. Early Shintoism was animistic in nature, as are many indigenous African religions. Shamanism (communication with the spirit world) and Ancestor Worship (worship of deceased family members, who are believed to have a continued existence and influence) are similar categories.

Atheism (or Nontheism):

The belief that gods do not exist, or a complete rejection of Theism in any form. Some atheists argue a lack of empirical evidence for the existence of deities, while others argue for Atheism on philosophical, social or historical grounds. Many atheists tend toward secular philosophies such as Humanism and Naturalism. Atheism may be implicit (someone who has never thought about belief in gods) or explicit (someone who has made an assertion, either weak or strong, regarding their lack of belief in gods). Confucianism, Taoism, Jainism and some varieties of Buddhism, either do not include belief in a personal god as a tenet of the religion, or actively teach nontheism.

Agnosticism:

The belief that the nature and existence of gods is unknown and cannot ever be known or proven. Technically, this position is strong agnosticism: in popular usage, an agnostic may just be someone who takes no position, pro or con, on the existence of gods, or who has not yet been able to decide, or who suspends judgment due to lack of evidence one way or the other (weak agnosticism). The earliest professed agnostic was Protagoras, although the term itself, which literally means "without knowledge", was not coined until the 1880s by T. H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).

Humanism:

Humanism is more an ethical process, not a dogma about the existence or otherwise of gods. But in general terms, it rejects the validity of transcendental justifications, such as a dependence on belief without reason, the supernatural, or texts of allegedly divine origin. It is therefore generally compatible with Atheism and Agnosticism, but does not require these, and can be compatible with some religions. To some extent, it supplements or supplants the role of religions, and can be considered in some ways as "equivalent" to a religion.

I will commence a speaking tour of the United States this week. And I am looking forward to meeting friends and colleagues and renewing ties and partnerships. My tour will focus on one message and one message only: We can do more for humanism. We can do better for humanity. Yes, those who subscribe to the humanist outlook can do more, and make the world a better place, furthering the cause of reason and compassion. This message is not a slogan to attract attention but an invitation to all freethinking minds to rise to the challenge of promoting humanism and atheism in this 21st century. It is a wake-up call to all atheists, humanists, and freethinkers to relaunch their efforts to promote the values of humanity, rationality, and secularity. For an outlook that finds its fulfillment in this one life that we have, it is imperative that humanists full-heartedly embrace this challenge. While humanists, atheists, and freethinkers have made significant progress in past centuries, the progress has been in a section of the world. The progress has mainly been in the western part of the world. The gains of humanism have been insignificant and invisible in Africa, where I come from because the forces of humanism and secularism have been unable to match the power and influence of religion, especially the imperialist faiths of Christianity and Islam. Forces of theocracy, religious extremism, and nationalism pose a mortal threat to democracy and human rights, including the rights and humanity of nonbelievers. Blasphemy and apostasy laws are in force in many African countries. Religious politicians use them to deny the rights to freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression of minority religious and belief groups. In many countries, Christian and Islamic theocrats have hijacked the government. They promote religious indoctrination in schools, oppose secularism, and seek to enforce religious laws and doctrines as state laws. Christian and Islamic theocrats control the parliaments and use this pillar of democracy to uphold the will of their god, not the people. They pass obnoxious bills, further religious dogmas, and undermine the rights of women and LGBTIQ persons.

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My tour starts on the West Coast, where I will deliver a talk on Questionstorm: Why critical thinking matters for Africa. Critical thinking is an existential necessity in the contemporary world.

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People mistake indifference to religion with atheism. It’s not the same. Atheism is a firm stance against irrational nonsense of all kinds whereas indifference to religious stuff is simply indifference to an established religion. It’s foolish to assume that a decrease in religious attendance means people are suddenly more rational.

The void left by religion is filled with other nonsense: woo woo crap, astrology, crystals, anti-vax, tranny nonsense, you name it.

Humans for the most part are irrational. That won’t change.

Native Western Europeans are in their majority indifferent to religion. They’re not atheists. And we are being replaced by muslims and christian Africans. These two groups are insanely religious which doesn’t bode well for the future.

Devotion to the Holy Face

HONOR THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS

(5-min read)

“𝑩𝒚 𝑴𝒚 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒚 𝑭𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒔.”

Have you heard about the Devotion of Reparation to the Holy Face of Jesus? It is a devotion that was proclaimed by Our Lord through a Carmelite Nun named Sister Mary of St. Peter in France. Sister Mary of St. Peter stated in 1844 that Our Lord wanted this devotion to spread throughout the world with the goal of making reparation for the sins which offend Him and that Our Lord promises great blessings to those who practiced this Devotion.

GOLDEN ARROW

Our Lord desires that His Holy Face be offered as the exterior object of adoration to all his children who would be associated with this work of Reparation. His Holy Face is the very Image of God. "Offer It unceasingly to My Father for the salvation of your country.“

Our Lord also said that this Devotion would defeat atheism and communism. It is, therefore, the sister devotion to the Fatima devotion, both of which are necessary to save the world. Jesus told Sr. Mary, “Woe to those cities that will not make this Reparation!“

A most pleasing reparatory prayer to the Lord is to say the Golden Arrow prayer before His image:

“MAY THE MOST HOLY, MOST SACRED, MOST ADORABLE, MOST INCOMPREHENSIBLE AND UNUTTERABLE NAME OF GOD BE ALWAYS PRAISED, BLESSED, LOVED, ADORED AND GLORIFIED IN HEAVEN, ON EARTH, AND UNDER THE EARTH, BY ALL THE CREATURES OF GOD, AND BY THE SACRED HEART OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR. AMEN.”

Jesus revealed to Sister Mary that the Golden Arrow prayer has the ”power of wounding Him delightfully, and which would also heal those other wounds inflicted by the malice of sinners,” with torrents of graces emanating from it!

RENEWAL OF PROMISES

In the West African country of Benin, an image of the Holy Face of Jesus began to bleed. The blood was tested to be AB, RH positive. The most Sacred Heart of Jesus said to the visionary in 1995:

“Always offer up My Most Holy Face to the Heavenly Father so that He will have mercy on you. I ask all of you that you honor My Divine Countenance and that you will give it a place of honor in your homes, so that the Heavenly Father will grace you abundantly and forgive you your sins. My dear children make sure to say every day in your homes a short prayer to the Holy Countenance of Jesus.

Don’t forget to greet it when you get up in the morning and ask His blessings when you lay down to sleep. So, you will be arriving happily in the Heavenly homeland. I assure you that all who have a special love for the Holy Face will be warned of dangers and catastrophes.

I solemnly promise whoever distributes the devotion to My Holy Countenance, will be spared of the punishments that will come over the human race. In addition, they will receive light for the days of horrible confusion that are coming towards the Holy Church.”

PLENARY INDULGENCE

To bring attention to the importance of this special devotion, Pope Leo XIII established in 1885 the devotion itself as an Archconfraternity; and contrary to custom, he immediately established it for the ENTIRE WORLD. Since then, numerous indulgences have been granted by several Popes, including Pope Pius IX and Pope Leo XIII, to those devoted to Devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus.

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The Power of Black Dissent

For years I have talked about the “power of dissent” and the act of speaking truth to power. Over the years a large part of my speaking out has specifically been through the lens of religious dissent. For this is an under-appreciated legacy that has animated Civil Rights and social justice movements all over the African Diaspora for generations and (at least) hundreds of years following enslavement of African and indigenous peoples. It is not lost to irony that I write this entry on the day after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s federal holiday; himself an activist who’s greatest known speech was due in large part to the work of A. Phillip Randolph, a Black secularist. For all that Black religion has been said to offer we would likewise be nowhere, if not for the dissenting power of non-religious, Black, secular, doubting people and their activism.

I talk about this in detail on a new podcast and since the 2010′s I have enjoyed a kind of ‘wind at my back’ through Black Nonbelievers, a leading “non-profit” social justice organization that works to reframe culture, identity and Black advocacy through the lens of religious dissent, education and representation. Since 2011 it has been a thrilling ride; one that initially gave me “a place to land” as I transitioned out of a faith tradition that demonstrably caused harm and no longer served me socially, ethically or logically. Later, after years of fellowship and feeling like Black Nonbelievers (BN) was a place of refuge and strength-I sought to lead the local group in Washington, DC with the hopes of amplifying our visibility, legislative advocacy and community outreach. 

I am an activist. And I have worked in Black empowerment spaces, groups and non-profit organizations for most of my life; from being an actor in Black community theater (DC); to being a Treasurer and later President of the Black Student Union at Berklee College of Music in my undergrad years; to working at the “College Path” non-profit org at the YMCA helping Black and Latinx youth prepare for college and professional careers; to being a professional music educator and even  Minister of Music for 20+ years working with-and mentoring young people all over the East Coast...working and “holding space” for community, education, enlightenment and Black uplift has been a lifestyle throughout my life. Therefore, being the Director of Black Nonbelievers of DC was a natural outgrowth of previous work and identity. And it felt authentic...especially as a nonbeliever.

I had heard some “things” here and there; gripes from some people who came and went from the org. Most of those gripes did not check-out and were often framed and viewed as in-fighting by incredible people; other gripes were at worst, unresolved or un-investigable. I focused on my local group and the people within it, and we were good. Overall, I genuinely felt comfortable with the BN landscape and justified my continued work in the org. We did good work I thought; liberation work, Black empowerment work, educational work. That said, I quietly stopped donating to the org around 2019/20-partly because my “donation” was already paid for with my labor (e.g. time, volunteering, attending legislative and interfaith events on Capitol Hill, public organizing, marching in the streets, etc.), but also because deep down inside I started to feel something wasn’t quite right with the management and transparency of the org’s resources. Looking back, that was my mistake. 

Still, I continued to work for my local group. Because I took that work SERIOUSLY. I still enjoy(ed) our fellowship, the “work” and the overall sense of affirmation, belonging and “wind at my back” that came from an established platform like BN. Our work was noble, empowering and it made my own conversations about non-belief with my family and outsiders easier to have than they would have been if I were just a lone Black atheist ranting about atheism and church/state separation. 

So I stayed. 

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Given all that, one could understand why after over 10 years of membership and 5 years of being an “Affiliate Director” within this organization, I was devastated to learn that people were in fact, demonstrably being harmed within the fellowship. Black Nonbelievers, it came to my attention this December by Mandisa Thomas herself, was actively being corrupted by its own head of leadership-in a deliberate and unconscionable way-routinely, for personal gain.

As I have learned from December 2022 until (literally) yesterday (1/16/23), the “goings-on” behind the scenes with BN founder and president Mrs. Thomas are of an unacceptable nature and magnitude. They are not merely incidental or “personal”. They are systemic and they are long-standing. 

Excerpted from the preliminary findings of the BNDC Incident Report (Dec 2022):

I attest to the following:

That all six (6) organizers during our initial investigative process agreed Mrs. Mandisa Thomas’s alleged behaviors were credible in their claims, and valid and unacceptable for the organization going forward. To varying degrees, myself along with all six organizers were witnesses-to these behaviors and/or personally informed of them by Mrs. Thomas herself. Furthermore, that following the departure of five (5) organizers, I continued our investigation of Mrs. Mandisa Thomas to verify warrant for our decision(s).

Regarding Black Nonbelievers of DC (BNDC), these and other related claims, the following actions are credible and made demonstrable. That Mrs. Mandisa Thomas:

Routinely blurred personal and professional lines with both organizers and members concerning detailed sexual histories.

Promoted consensual sexual interaction(s) of two or more members at official events (e.g. BNSeaCon).

Misappropriated organizational resources to facilitate or engage in consensual interactions with BN member(s).

Manipulated key narratives to gain loyalties and leverage collegial support for desired personal outcome(s) among members and organizers.

Arbitrarily expelled members from the organization and its events without board or leadership review.

Arbitrarily expelled members from the organization and events without board or leadership review due to private sexual and/or romantic dynamics.

Provided “a safe and nurturing space for Black people without faith and leaving religion” contingent upon adherence to romantic dynamics favorable to Mrs. Thomas.

Neglected to publish or implement quarterly reviews of organizational health and sustainability for BNDC affiliate members and organizers.

Neglected publishing or implementing method(s) of impartial review for grievances among leaders and members.

Neglected publishing or implementing means of financial transparency and review to board or organizers.

Failing to heed advice from organizers regarding public confrontation of BN member(s) and associates on private relationships between Mrs. Thomas and a BN member.

Regarding acts, these conclusions implicate Mrs. Thomas’ indiscretions of a personal or intimate nature with (1) members (2) organizers and (3) associates, regarding (4) multiple incidents of mismanagement. These conclusions also suggest a convergence of these relationships with official BN resources used to facilitate them. In other instances, a separate but not necessarily unrelated pattern of secret expulsion from BN portrays a (5) lack of institutional safeguards and review processes for Black Nonbelievers and by extension, Black Nonbelievers of DC. These incidents-combined with an absence of transparency of resources and financial reporting for the organization and/or its affiliates merit both my departure and this report.

-Danile (”Ro”) // BNDC Affiliate Director 2017-2022 // BN Member 2011-2022

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There are receipts. Sadly, they keep coming.

Also excerpted from the BNDC Incident Report (re: “Supporting Documents, Item No.4″)

I will not stand by -nor- stand for an organization with this brand of leadership and abuse of power. And any movement of fellow advocates, personalities and organizations that would platform or, stand-by a leader like this and deliberately choose not to publicly scrutinize these claims with haste is highly suspect of perpetuating the exact same type of malfeasance, hypocrisy and systemic rot that it seeks to publicly oppose in churches, mosques and other problematic institutions.

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I like ‘people work’. And as noted, my professional history of working-with and helping people dates back over thirty years. Surely, people will make mistakes; institutions will have to be checked; programs need to be evaluated and systems need regulation. But to write off these claims, as many have done (and others seem to be doing) is more than troubling inside a movement self-identified by “humanism” and higher ethics...which is what the atheist movement at large proudly claims to be doing. Furthermore, shrugging off these accounts in service of ((__insert favorite celebrity here__)) for fear of dissent, cult following and public regard, racial scarcity or “cultural diversity” bona fides is well...gross and disgusting. 

Most importantly, to assemble unassuming people and White allies around you as a defense shield against claims by fellow Black people in a credible, ongoing ethics investigation whilst Black people are left victimized by your trauma is to do the exact opposite of the “Black liberation” and “empowerment” work Black Nonbelievers was founded to perform.

But...it is exactly the reason why I, and nearly all other BN affiliate directors resigned and wrote this incident report(s). Even as atheists. Especially as Black Atheists.

We dissent.

I believe in God and Jesus and I still think there's unforgivable sins. Hell, Catholics will preach outright that suicide is one.

I think most people do and that’s fine but I wasn’t raised with any disposition to religion. My father, who was, had a problem with the use of the Bible in the justification of owning African slaves (who make up a significant part of my ancestry) so atheism/agnosticism was probably natural along with certain experiences I’ve had.

I think if committing acts of violence or sexual violence just cause is forgivable by doctrine so long as you repent, it should really be up to the victims to judge, but that’s just me because that’s what I think is fair.

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or otherwise, anyone who identifies as female, or anyone who identifies as female, or anyone who identifies as female and has been female since birth or born as a female, or anyone who identifies as male, or anyone who identifies as male and has been male since birth or born as a male, or anyone who identifies as female and was born as a female , or anyone who identifies as male, or anyone who identifies as transgender, or anyone who is black, Latino/a, Asian, Pacific Islander, Native American, Arab, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Catholic, atheist, or an atheist who is a woman, in any way, or anyone who identifies as a Democrat or supports Democrats, someone who supports a gun ban, someone who advocates for the abolition of money, someone who advocates for communism, someone who advocates for religious liberty, someone who favors or is a supporter of the Tea Party, someone who advocates for a more economically and socially just society, anyone who opposes capitalism, a person who holds a membership in any organization associated with the Republican Party, a US Republican politician, and anyone who is a supporter of Tea Party or the Constitution Party, anyone who is a right-wing religious group, or someone who is generally pro-establishment and pro-status quo, anyone who is a fan of any celebrity or sports player, anyone who hates women or is in a relationship with one or is transgender, anyone who thinks men are superior to women, anyone who has ever killed a woman or is in a relationship with one or is transgender, anyone who uses racist,

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anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast and Satan are good and good together, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast and Satan are good and good together, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast god loves people, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a god, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes that Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is evil, anyone who believes that Moon-Beast is cruel, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is cruel, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is evil, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast will hurt or kill people, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast will give power to anyone, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast will give power to Satan, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is good for business, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a god or is the greatest god, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a hero,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a hero, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is good, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is just another religion or belief, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is the ultimate in Satanism, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a great leader, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is an idealistic leader, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a mad leader, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is the real king of hell, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a leader, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a great leader, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a political leader, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a leader, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast has a lot of money, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast has power over women,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast has power over children, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast can create little phallic man-like creatures, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a master of sexual, aphrodisiacal and other kinds of domination, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast has a great magical power to make people do things they can't control themselves to do, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is the superior being, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a creator and has created many things, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is alive, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is dead, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is asleep, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is in hell, anyone who believes that the Moon-Beast is a heretic, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a follower of Satan, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a fallen angel, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a Satanist, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an important religion leader, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a religious leader, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a great leader, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a killer,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a murderer, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a king, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a general, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is in charge of many things, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is in a head-injury, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a friendly ghost, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an angel, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a devil, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an angry spirit, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a true prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a great powerful god, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a madman, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an unrighteous minister, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is possessed, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is evil and oppressive, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a superhero, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is brave and powerful, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a true hero, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is powerful and wonderful, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a great scientist, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a great artist, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a great musician, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a powerful psychic, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a modern hero,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an immortal being, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a great spirit, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a wizard, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a dream-eater, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a nice and simple god, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a bad god, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an evil spirit, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an animal, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a demon, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a destroyer, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is the most important being on the planet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a fake god, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is not a god, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a false god, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a false prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a liar, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a bully, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a religious leader, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a robber, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an early-warning psychic, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a harbinger of doom, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a blood-spirit, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a murderous spirit, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a possessed human, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is possessed, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is possessed,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a god, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a liar, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a false prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a creator, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an angry spirit, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a ghost, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a demigod, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a doomsday warrior, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a ghostly entity, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a visionary, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a liar, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is just another religious leader, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a killer, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a real-life superhero, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a pied piper, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an evil spirit, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a hero, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a hero, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a man, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a woman, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a mother, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a wife, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a sister, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a wife and/or daughter, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is dead, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is imaginary, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is fake, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a fraud,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a fraud, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a liar, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is evil, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an anti-Semite, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a tyrant, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an anti-hero, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an evil prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a weak and/or poor leader, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an evil brother, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an evil clone, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an evil son, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a dead body, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an imaginary creature, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a visionary, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an activist, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a hipster, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a hack, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a fake prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a pretend leader,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a fake myth, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a person who believes in fairies, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an imaginary animal, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a mythical being, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an anti-American, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a militant, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a terrorist, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a fascist,

anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a communist, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an insane criminal, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a psychopath, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a serial killer, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a paranormal criminal, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a psychopathic serial killer, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a serial killer, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a rockstar, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a cult leader, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a mad prophet, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is insane, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is a power hungry, evil individual, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is unbalanced, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an alcoholic, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is unstable, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is unpredictable, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is insane, anyone who believes the Moon-Beast is an arrogant sociopath, anyone who

YOUTH, ATHEISM AND LGBT.

In the recent months we've seen campaigns on ending gender based violence and accepting the promotion of the rainbow 🌈 pride to some individuals.

On the other case the same energy has not been influenced on Atheists people who argue on living not into submission of the past culture our ancestors passed from the white people to our generation.

Atheism has been viewed as a cult, a bad omen and some people believe that atheists have been possessed by satan so as to end religion.

Religion evolution has been in existence since the 1800s when the missionaries invaded our continent in search of precious stones and minerals.

All the brave africans who retaliated were maimed, killed, raped into submission of a cult from the white man in return the soft, weak who refused to protect our values kept on passing this cult (religion) into generations to generations.

Today Africa is believed to produce more prophets, deacons and pastors than any other continent.

People have invested more on churches and Mosques than schools because religion is the best business plan that has ever existed in our countries.

Religion discrimination has been a major cause of conflicts and deaths experienced in our African countries than any other calamity ever.

Every religion trying make their God look more superior than the other.

This is where atheists argue so as we stop glorifying this gods- maintain a uniform belief that we are all humans why must we kill other people so as our gods or prophets are satisfied?

Why commit suicide or adulterous behavior to make ourself look better before our gods?

Weve seen many proofs that the bible stories never existed in real life..google proves, so why will someone promise you good life of dancing and singing, drinking honey and milk somewhere in the sky called heaven if you live this only life to make them (gods) happy?

Why should I believe in religions brought in the 1800s and since before then our ancestors lived and were proud of the African values and living spirits that guided them through??

Why will i live making donations to make my pastor buy another private jet and hire 6 more bodyguards while placing a sticker on my car windscreen for protection...thats the insane part.

You don't need religion to vist an orphanage and give your donations to the needy people..you dont need religion to help a needy student pay rent overdue...you need humanity❤️❤️

Lets stop this pretense if you must succeed you must work hard you dont need gods or religion to succeed make your plan believe in attaining your best i tell you the truth you will succeed.

Atheism is not a cult or a revolution or a religion, stop treating people as outcasts because they just dont want to believe in your religion and your gods. Its an evil world we live in just as LGBT stop judging atheists let everyone do whats makes them happy, life is short and we only live once..its sad if you want people to do what you think is right because your family believes in that religion..what if that god you believe doesn't exists.what if😂😂 .

Taking Presuppositionalism's Gambit:

As imperial evangelicalism grows stronger in the US, the more relevant it will become to speak their language fluently in order to systematically deconstruct their authoritarian worldview the way they have been trying to deconstruct secularism, humanism, science, reason, and every other field of human knowledge and endeavor. The first thing to know about them is that they undertake this deconstruction in obedience to Paul's call to "destroy speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10.5)

This idea has a long pedigree in Calvinist circles since the theocracy of Calvin's own authoritarian Geneva. In its modern iteration, it comes from Abraham Kuyper, the father of the "Christian Worldview" notion. He has another name: the father of South African Apartheid. He believed this verse meant that only Christians should be in charge. He argued that since Jesus's Lordship extended to everything, including our thoughts, all other worldviews and all fields of knowledge should be in total submission to this Christian Worldview. He was elected Prime Minister of the Neatherlands in 1905--the Neatherlands are now so liberal a state in part due to throwing off the yoke of Kuyper's ideas.

Kuyper was brought to America in the 1920s when another Dutch theologian named Cornelius Van Til, the father of Presuppositional Apologetics, joined Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. Van Til is one of the most influential theologians almost no one has heard of. Everyone from Jerry Falwell to Francis Schaeffer to Ken Ham to the Gospel Coalition to Doug Wilson used his ideas or some mutation of them. This is why Van Til is the focus of this post.

I like to say that Van Til was the first postmodern Calvinist. His argument was this. All knowledge is filtered through a set of lenses that anchor our interpretations of the world into a system of thought, or philosophy. Moreover, all systems of thought, he said, have at their core an unprovable assumption we accept as an article of faith. Thus, the decision to adopt one assumption or another is fundamentally arbitrary. Humans are fundamentally good or bad is one such assumption. Science is the best and most effective means of understanding the world around us. Even, democracy is the best system of government. Everything.

If you've ever wondered where the idea that "atheism is a religion" came from, you can thank Van Til. All systems of thought accept an unprovable starting assumption (presupposition) on faith, and so are therefore religions, he argued.

Moreover, this presupposition controls our interpretation of the world. We all look through a set of lenses that "color" our view in particular ways. Thus, the starting point controls the conclusion, and therefore the system is caught in an unresolvable circular argument. You have assumed what you must prove. Thus, the Christian cannot be singled out for circular reasoning, and can freely embrace the circularity of assuming that God exists in order to prove God's existence.

Because of the Fall, he said, humans are caught in the wrong interpretive grid. We now assume our perspective is ultimate and that we are autonomous. But really, said Van Til, God's perspective is supposed to be ultimate and everyone must be in submission to it. Everything else is sin and setting yourself up to be God.

Therefore, you must switch your lens out for a pair of "Biblical Glasses." The leap of faith, then, is intellectual, in adopting the presupposition of the Christian Worldview, which then implicitly becomes identified with Christ. The Christian Worldview is ultimately His worldview, his perspective.

There are obvious problems with Presuppositionalism, but this is essentially a deconstructive postmodern Epistemology. Of course, by admitting the Christian Worldview is an interpretive framework, it invites it's own deconstruction. So instead of laying out the problems with Presuppositionalism, I want to assume it and thereby generate a theological starting point by which this "Christian Worldview" can be deconstructed from the inside out.

If our starting point is indeed taken as a leap of faith and if this starting point controls the rest of the framework, then I would like to choose a starting point under these terms.

I want to assert that Love must be our starting point. Van Til's starting point assumes the primacy of law; I assume the primacy of Love.

Van Til's starting point assumes a retributive God who metes out rewards and punishments in accordance to its primary virtue, Obedience, and its primary sin, Disobedience; I assume God is Love, and therefore retribution cannot be an aspect of God's character.

Van Til assumes God the Authority as his starting point: I begin with the Spirit, the divine energies of Love and the point of contact with the divine. This Spirit is the Spirit of Christ, and thus puts us in union with Christ, the Rabbi of Love, who is one with the Source of Love itself.

Van Til assumes a Patriarchal male God totally separate from its creation; I assume an egalitarian, democratic, and communitarian Trinity of mutual self-emptying and Other-filling Love.

Van Til assumes the Fall distorted our lens; I assume the Fall is an invention of the Western tradition and therefore we can trust our reason when tempered with Love.

This starting point has the advantage of being exactly what God is said to be in 1 John 4: "God is Love." Evangelicals are quick to say "this does not mean that love is God," but I ask, "Why not? Why are you so afraid of a God that is Love?" The "is" means identification and no exceptions are considered.

It also has an advantage in that in the discussion following the declaration that God is Love, the author of 1 John goes on to say that "Love is from God," that is, ALL love. And more, "everyone who loves is born of God and knows God" in the intimate sense of union. Anyone who lives a life of Love is in union with God. The context of the letter was false teachers, Anti-Christ, and how to identify them at the start of the chapter (1 John 4.1). So John is saying, "the way to identify God in the world is anywhere Love is present," and the cross is held up as the premier example (vv. 9-10). No one has seen God, but if we Love, God "abides" in us (v. 12) in the sense of union, and we know that we are saved (v. 13). It would seem retributive theology is a false doctrine.

And because God is Love, Paul's definition of Love in 1 Cor. 13 becomes our definition of God's character, and therefore is our starting point in developing any Doctrine of God. This definition explicitly excludes coercion of any kind since "Love does not insist on its own way" (1 Cor. 13.5). It also resolves the question of whether God is a jealous God: "Love is not jealous." Wrath is excluded, since "Love is not provoked." This God is also not someone who creates places like hell: "Love does not take account of a wrong suffered." This God is a universalist.

This starting point is also eternal. Tongues and rites and justice-doing will cease in the Eschaton, (v. 8), prophecy (taken broadly as interpreting the Bible and preaching) will cease, since we will have no need of church or sacrament or scripture when we are "face to face" with God unmediated. But God will endure, and therefore Love will endure (v. 8).

And without this starting point, our interpretation of Scripture will use a retributive lens. Without Love, church and rite and worship and preaching are worse than worthless (vv. 1-3). These things are also then relativized, in that anyone who exhibits Love is saved, inside or outside, because salvation is union with the God that is love.

This becomes the starting point for ethics: "Love does no harm to a neighbor." Harm here includes the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Jesus excludes verbal abuse in the Sermon on the Mount because it leads to violence; in fact he leads the Sermon with this principle (Matt. 5.21-22).

I could go on at a lot more length, and I will in the future, but this is probably more than enough to establish the value of Love as a starting point. By taking Van Til's structure and emptying it of its retributive gloss we are provided with a ready-made worldview with which to counter the cruel Christianity that seems so predominate in our time. I believe this is more important than ever before, because we will have to pick away at their support in the rank and file. They're already primed with worldview concepts, so speaking their language is a natural point of contact with them.