SAABA MINISTRIES OF THE WORLD
President Hoshaiah Eon El Khalil
By the power of theHidden,
the All-Seeing,
and the Creator
Peace Family:
Before I begin family, I want you to know that this post is extremely simplified and is only meant to spark study and curiosity within you, and for you to understand our position.
WHY A BLACK OR WHITE TYPE OF GOD?
If you have read my other post The Legacy of Organized Resistance, you would see that the idea of god was being associated with black people and/or rooted in the idea of a black savior and origin story starting in the early Nineteenth Century. What I did not explain in the last blog is that much of the reasons for a black god is because of the race ideology that worked in collusion with religion, class, economics, culture in general, impressed upon Black people by the European inherited power structure/system on American soil. In other words, a lot of social ideas were centered around one group of people (called whites) being supreme over others, and this supreme race philosophy also worked well with a racially supreme being of religion.
Good examples of the above would be the Protestant philosophy of Calvinism via John Calvin and the pseudo-scientific philosophy called Social Darwinism via Herbert Spencer. The aspect of Calvinism that should be considered is the notion of predestination, that god had already determined the destiny of an individual, and there is nothing that they can do to change it. Whatever a person ends up doing in their existence, forever should it dominate the rest of their life because it is an unchanging divine path. A person cannot elevate or change because it is not what the Calvinist Christian 'god' intended.
Social Darwinism, a social and crude interpretation of the scientific work of Charles Darwin, posited that people are somehow made to be in the situation they are in because of their social evolutionary status. If a person is a tradesman, then that is how he or she is supposed to be relative to their society.
John Calvin 1509-1564
Herbert Spencer 1820-1903
While these two types of thinking were at odds, they did work well to maintain the idea that blacks were a low or inferior people, religious or otherwise. For the Calvinist, God says so-called blacks were/are to stay slaves, while in Social Darwinist would say slavery is a natural expression in how so-called blacks adapted to society.
Changing the face of god and ideas related to nature was the way so-called blacks went about fighting against the above mindsets (AME Church/Peace Mission). In later attempts, we tackled the history and origins of god (Nation of Islam). Some presented god as a purely a racial root, while others not only used a racial identity for god but also used locations and/or people within the bible and qur'an and labeled themselves after those people (Moorish Science Temple/Black Hebrew Israelites).
The problems presented with the above attempts is that we failed to recognize several issues that stem from colonialism:
1) god somehow equals or is better than the creative beings of other religions and spiritual expression
2) god is used generically as a term to describe a universal creator and no one challenges it
3) many do not considers that the etymological root of god would also have god's true origin
4) its ok to racialize god in the same way the european's and their descendants had done
Before going into the root of where god comes from, we must understand what caused this type of creative being to become the standard for the world we presently live in. And what I mean by standard is that this being, with the proper name of god, is a dominant being pervading the religious and spiritual understanding of the diverse groups of peoples across the entire planet.
Some of you would say: what's wrong with that? My answer would be everything is wrong with that. Please read on...
THE EUROPEAN UNDERSTANDING OF SELF
Many things were happening in Europe from since the Eight Century C.E. Race and race grouping, the ranking and ordering of life, ideas of a chosen people, scarcity of resources, overcrowding of European nations, and the need for adventure became dominant themes.
The Ancient Nubian Egyptians contributed much knowledge to the early Europeans (Greeks, Minoans, Etruscans, Sea Peoples, Romans) and Asiatics (Retennu, Peleset, Hatti, Amu, Haribu, and Shasu). This contribution took place in philosophy, religion, and science. It happened under the Greek Theos and Roman Deus, the Germanic and Norse Aesir, the Elohim of Judaism and Christianity, and the Allah of Islam.
The Rmt (Egyptian), Tehenu (Lybian), The Nebu (Nubian), Amu (Semite)
Syrian (Asiatic or Amu), Nubian, Lybian (Tehenu), Egyptian (Rmt)
Islam embraced the teachings of the Nubian Egyptian via the philosophy of the old Greek, Roman, and Ptolemaic philosophers. Within Islam, there was a heavy contribution to Europe at a time where education and literacy was outlawed to the general citizen via the Catholic Church. It was called the Dark Age ironically, and much of the Islam and non-Islamic Africans were called Moors or Black-a-moor by the Europeans.
Without going into a wide range of contribution (and there were), the specific idea and philosophy of race, mathematics, oceanography, topography, and navigation, were key contributions to the European consciousness. In arabic, there was the word Al-raz, which meant chief or head family. There is also the book called the Book of the Glory of the Black Race over the White Race. In terms of traveling, the Moors were highly skilled in creating ships as well as sailing the seas (this is not to say that the so-called Vikings did not also play a great part in travel and creating vessels as well).
This Dark Age caused many of the learned of Europe to seek education within North Africa. After the expulsion of Moors as a temporal power within the many European nations Moors occupied, the consciousness of race, and a Pan-European Christian Nationalism, started to emerge.
A Moor
Early Islamic Map with the top starting from the south. This is in the tradition of how the Ancient Nubian Egyptians saw the top from the south as well.
Race developed into big national myths for Europeans. Plenty of Europeans groups found themselves racially superior to other Europeans based on skull size and ethnicity. European Anthropologists also decided that certain human bodies were preferrable or more beautiful than others.
All this, coupled with a dim understanding of the continent of Africa and the above type of nationalism, dominated how European groups interpreted foreign peoples they encountered. The results of this encounter was betrayal between Africans, between Africans and Europeans, cunning, war, conquering, and then the imposing of European superiority. One aspect of this superiority was religion, and one main European group to promote their ideas of a superior creative being were the British. That being's name is God.
UNRAVELING THE NATURE OF GOD
When people think about god, they often think about religion or a holy book that supposedly professes the teachings of god. More specifically, they look towards the bible or quran for their understanding of who and what god is.
I want to challenge you and say that by no means do bible or quran teach, or any sacred book in the planet for that matter, ever taught about god. In fact, it is a great spell and illusion when someone believes that holy books actually teach about god.
When we think of god, we must consider the historical context of language. Language is important when considering the way religion, particularly the Christian Religion, spread throughout the entire planet. Christian holy books (and of other religions) of today, as well as of the past are always being translated, rewritten, and republished in a variety of languages, with new languages added as well. The underlying principle is that religious people do this to help people to better understand what the religion is offering since it would be within the respective people's own tongue.
But what about the tongue of God? Does god originally come a specific branch of people? The answer is yes. God, however, is not from the bible because when we look at the history of god being in the bible, it goes up to the Fourth Century C.E. and still remaining obscure or non-existent to the rest of the world (even in Europe). Before then, the bible was in the language of Latin, and in other cases, Greek and Aramaic. God does not come from Latin, Greek, or Aramaic. And God does not come from the Romans, the Greeks, or the Semitic speaking people's of the world.
God comes from the tribe of the Germans (Goths, Visigoths, Anglos, Saxons, Germans etc.). God is a creative being that was worshipped by those tribes. A priest from the Goth tribe called Ulfilas made the first translation, and that's when God substituted the Roman creative being: Deus, which is from the Roman bible called the Latin Vulgate.
So, while still not in the Anglo tribe's (Ancient English) variety of Germanic tongue, God is now supreme within a book that went from Ancient Egyptian (mdw ntr), to Pheonician (Canaanu), to Hebrew (Haribu), to Greek (Koine), to Latin, and finally to the German.
Ulfilas 310-383 - Priest and Translator of Roman Bible
Direct translations of the bible into Anglo Saxon or Old English was done in the 7th Century by Venerable Bede, Middle English in the 14th Century by John Wycliff, and an explosion of multiple bibles in the 15th Century in early Modern English (with the King James Version being the most powerful).
Venerable Bede circa 672-735 - 7th Century Translator
John Wycliffe circa 1320-1384 - 14th Century Translator
This latter bible, the King James Version was a companion for the Imperialist/Colonialist/Racist as a means to:
1) To convert people to belief in God (Christianity is only incidental)
2) To make God superior to every other Creative Being's name (Oludumare, Allah, Jesus, YHWH, etc.)
3) To shroud the fact that God was originally a proper name from a creative being from a relatively small and insignificant tribe
4) To make God not only supreme in religion but also supreme in race.
And now, we, the African Diaspora, Afro Latino, Afro Global people, engage in the same mind numbing, mentally enslaving thing!
We teach God like he comes from us and loves us.
All of our groups say they love god, even when they say they are of African Global Consciousness and Development and reject white thinking!
We are ok with God superiority.
We make God the standard for everything we say whenever we mention our spiritual or religious beliefs! This is slave thinking!
We don't really care about God's origin (conscious person or not).We automatically assume God is the origin of who we are and not even question that maybe that is false!
We make God supreme over our own religions.
Some would say that black people who are puppets to whites are House Negroes or Uncle Toms. What do you call a person of the African Diaspora who thinks God is the one you call on when there are many other African Beings that are more worthy to invoke? And we fight and try to make God black to satisfy that feeling of inferiority and lack of love. Our true Creator (of any of our lands) doesn't have to be called black because it goes without saying.
My reader should know my position already at this point. But just to make it clear: when I say to renounce god, it does not mean that I am an atheist. Rather it means that I am pointing to the fact that we have been enslaved by a relatively small and obscure Anglo Saxon being that became famous because of imperialism and colonialism during the early 17th Century until now.
We must stop looking at god as some type of standard for the ideas of spirituality.
God does not equal Creator. You only think he does, as according to imperialism.
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Peace
