William T. Portwine's In God We Lust PDF

By William T. Portwine

ISBN-10: 1546561684

ISBN-13: 9781546561682

for hundreds of years, thousands of Christians, specifically Black Christians, were indoctrinated to think that an ahistorical Son of God lived, did miracles, and died as a blood atonement for the sins of mankind. opposite to well known trust, the gospel tale of Jesus Christ as portrayed within the Holy Bible and supported via the Church isn't a actual portrayal of a ancient Lord and grasp who walked the Earth hundreds of thousands of years in the past, yet is a delusion equipped upon different myths and god-men.

These god-men have been in flip personifications of the sun mythos and rituals in numerous cultures worldwide sooner than the Christian period. Gods and heroes born of virgins have been very common lengthy prior to the production of the Christian faith, and the assets of most of these deities is Africa. The Pygmies, who're the 1st Paleolithic males and who developed in valuable Africa on the resources of the Nile Valley, believed in a Father-God who used to be murdered and a Virgin mom, who gave start to a Savior-God Son, who in flip avenged the dying of his father.

These later turned Asar, Aset, and Heru of North Africa (Egypt), who the Greeks renamed Osiris, Isis, and Horus, and whose worship was once renowned within the Roman Empire for centuries, until eventually the Europeans determined they sought after the Africans to worship them as god. as soon as the Europeans have been in a position to effectively deny Africans the fitting to determine God via their very own mind's eye or to deal with God in a observe that got here from their very own language, the esoteric which means of the outdated spirituality used to be misplaced.

Black Christians were brainwashed to think that pondering past the Bible and attempting to comprehend their very own African spirituality is blasphemous, yet until eventually we do and until eventually we comprehend the divine stability of masculine and female power, we are going to eternally be sufferers of someone else's racist theology--a theology born out of a tradition that embraces misogyny, homosexuality, pedophilia, rape, enslavement, and genocide.

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