Who are the Black Hebrew Israelites and what was their part in the Covington controversy?
At the beginning of the video footage you can see that the black Israelite were verbally attacking the indians. The kids ended up in the middle of this, accidentally preventing an escalation of the tensions only to be attacked by both sides.
In 1886, Chattanooga, Tennessee, a former railroad worker named Frank Cherry established the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth for All Nations. (Yes, that was the full church name.) He mixed together elements of Judaism and Christianity, and believed that African Americans were descendants of the original tribes of Israel. He preached that these Israelite ancestors were chased out of Babylon into central and western Africa where they were eventually sold into slavery by the Romans. He believed that Adam, Eve, and Jesus were black. Cherry also preached that whites are inherently evil and hated by God.
In 1886, Chattanooga, Tennessee, a former railroad worker named Frank Cherry established the Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of Truth for All Nations. (Yes, that was the full church name.) He mixed together elements of Judaism and Christianity, and believed that African Americans were descendants of the original tribes of Israel. He preached that these Israelite ancestors were chased out of Babylon into central and western Africa where they were eventually sold into slavery by the Romans. He believed that Adam, Eve, and Jesus were black. Cherry also preached that whites are inherently evil and hated by God.
I have read some before about "black Israelites" in the paper. There was a group,some years ago, in Richmond, which had a sort of black synagogue in the eastern part of Richmond, where I lived. There was an advertisement, with a picture of a black man with a ball and chain on his leg, with "USA" written on it. (Later, that part, or maybe only the initials "USA" was taken off. In the recruiting poster it said (this is a memory quote) "Yahweh loves you, and we do too!" (I doubt that that message was intended to include any white people). But I don't think that that "synagogue" lasted long. I read a remark in the paper (I think it was in a letter to the editor) that the "white Europeans" in Israel were not the true Israelites. And I thought that anyway, the "white European" Jews were the ones who had paid the price. (Though maybe the ones born in Israel now haven't personally been in Europe)
I do not have that kind of problem with religion. I suppose believers have many problems. Once you are free of that the Bible becomes of interest as (poor) history, and as expression of thinking of those times.
The Old T is full of arguments and complaints from the characters to God, these are responded to sometimes with logic but more often with a reminder of who is in charge. The reader can get the idea that there is power that must be recognized, quite different from worship.
Thus, I throw in this idea- the Old T is not propounding religion (belief, faith). It invites questions about the human condition, and about power which can be interpreted as the laws of nature which are to studied and used (and obeyed) in order for humans to achieve their goals.
This link shows the whole apology letter, and part of the previous condemnation letter.
https://www.wlwt.com/article/bishop-o...
Inbetween the old and the new, mankind lost the voice, imagine, no voice at all, then a cursory awareness of self which eventually, (for some) the voice of self and conscience, yet, raw and untrained and a 1000 years to work out but still today...60% have failed having never known their mind...Hint: most have ended up in governments of the world... the rest are their pagan flock of useless idiots.
My biggest problem with religion was its hypocritical conflict with the morality it claims it is the only source for. Lysander Spooner once wrote that if God really did write the bible wouldn't it be written in a way that it would be patently obvious? You wouldn't have to believe it to make it work it would work on its own. The greatest leaders in the bible were truly horrible people with no value for human life or respect for others especially if they were not of their group. Once I realized this hypocrisy could not be reconciled (I thought Thomas Paine did a masterful job of destroying it in the first few pages of 'The Age of Reason') I was done.
No one in the colonies knew of the pagan creatures west of them, had our forefathers been around, they likely could of convinced many an indian to join us in the American Experiment.
Christ was trying to wake our shinny butts up! and teach us to integrate, to listen to our conscience to gain a mind and not get in trouble anymore but if our ascension into the conscious world, the moral, ethical world and care for our selves and others beyond our innate ability for mutuality "was to be so damn easy" there would have been no reason for the concept of "forgiveness" and it played out in a dramatic way...it was his choice to demonstrate that forgiveness in that manner.
Kind of a clean slate inwhich to start behaving in a conscious human manner instead of a pagan barbarian humanoid manner.
It's not exactly a news flash to find that many of the creatures we have a problem with just didn't get it but to the conscious, it seems one gets it automatically.
I get the experience of being in a pagan mass and told by some weird guy in a white dress..."if you don't come to church...your gonna go to hell!"
HEY! Wait!!!...I didn't know that, no one told me till now! ...but at that very moment, old ugly young carl said to himself...BULLCRAP! I don't believe you any more!
That push westward was pretty much of an evil land grab on the part of the USA. And the civil way was an attempt to PREVENT the south from just doing a BREXIT thing.
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