dropping knowledge .............drop !!
THERE WAS NO SPIRITUALITY IN CHRISTIANITY UNTIL THE SLAVES GOT A HOLD OF IT !!
religion can be put to different uses but has no intrinsic immutable absolute purpose.
Hmmm, I don't think that religion can be said to have a purpose as such. It is simply a successful meme that plays upon some of our deepest instincts. For example, a fear of death is natural and instinctive, but the idea of an eternal afterlife could become a successful meme because it allows us to trick ourselves into not being scared. Similarly, if a society has a cosmic law-giver, it supports co-operation and homogeneity within this society, which allows it to prosper over more spiritually anarchic societies. Religion is humankind's first attempt at law, at science, at moral philosophy... and it worked to our advantage for a while.
Black people were not brought to this country to be given education, citizenship or democracy. They were brought here to serve, to labor and to obey. When the American promise was made originally, it was not meant for us. When the American dream was dreamed originally, it was not dreamed for us. And yet we, the pathological American patriots, have never been able to accept this. And when they said, "Liberty and justice for all," we ran to the place where the "all" was being given out, only to discover that we were not part of that "all." And when they draw the picture of the "all," we discover again to our heartbreak that we are not in the picture. WE ARE SLAVES TO AMERICAS ,,,,,RELIGION
IT WAS CREATED FOR POLITICAL REASONS AND POWER,,,, POINT BLANK !
THERE WAS NO SPIRITUALITY IN CHRISTIANITY UNTIL THE SLAVES GOT A HOLD OF IT !!
if Heaven is a good place, if everyone wants to meet God, then how comes that nobody wants to die?
religion can be put to different uses but has no intrinsic immutable absolute purpose.
Hmmm, I don't think that religion can be said to have a purpose as such. It is simply a successful meme that plays upon some of our deepest instincts. For example, a fear of death is natural and instinctive, but the idea of an eternal afterlife could become a successful meme because it allows us to trick ourselves into not being scared. Similarly, if a society has a cosmic law-giver, it supports co-operation and homogeneity within this society, which allows it to prosper over more spiritually anarchic societies. Religion is humankind's first attempt at law, at science, at moral philosophy... and it worked to our advantage for a while.
Black people were not brought to this country to be given education, citizenship or democracy. They were brought here to serve, to labor and to obey. When the American promise was made originally, it was not meant for us. When the American dream was dreamed originally, it was not dreamed for us. And yet we, the pathological American patriots, have never been able to accept this. And when they said, "Liberty and justice for all," we ran to the place where the "all" was being given out, only to discover that we were not part of that "all." And when they draw the picture of the "all," we discover again to our heartbreak that we are not in the picture. WE ARE SLAVES TO AMERICAS ,,,,,RELIGION
IT WAS CREATED FOR POLITICAL REASONS AND POWER,,,, POINT BLANK !
THERE WAS NO SPIRITUALITY IN CHRISTIANITY UNTIL THE SLAVES GOT A HOLD OF IT !!
if Heaven is a good place, if everyone wants to meet God, then how comes that nobody wants to die?
Martin Luther King provided an elegant if not perfect answer to this :-
"A religion true to its natures must also be concerned about man's social conditions. Religion deals with both earth and heaven, both time and eternity. Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself."