In a culture of “do what thou wilt” with a foundation of “the pursuit of happiness” can anyone wonder that America is a land foundering under its own depravity? We are a double minded people caught up in the rat race of “getting ahead”, unable to understand Solomon’s concept of “nothing good under the sun” while flagrantly disregarding the Biblical wisdom of “money is the root of all evil”, yet ostensibly we live under a very moral code of laws in the Constitution.
Inherent in the culture promoted within the above, we have, over time, violated many of the rules for good living set down by the ancient Hebrews in their scriptures. We have NOT learned that “do what thou wilt” (an ancient foundational philosophy of living re-popularized by Aleister Crawley in the early 1900’s), leads to heartache and misery. The problem is, the heartache and misery are often shoved down the throats of the vulnerable, groups that Yahovah was particularly interested in protecting.
In this 7-part series, I say nothing that has not been said before, for Solomon tells us that there is truly “nothing new under the sun”, but in light of what I believe is a seven-year warning period that started with the “Great American Eclipse” in 2017, I say it at a time when I believe a great disaster is in our near future. My gut says 2024 based on the scriptures declaration that great signs will herald judgements from our Creator. And what greater sign is an X written in the heart of ones’ nation on April 8, 2024, crossing an area where a great earthquake topographically altered millions of acres in 1811?
I will, admittedly briefly, review the following indictments, one post for each. One can argue that these are all linked, yes of course they are, but I have a few specific points to share in each, and I believe these to be the most heinous of our crimes. When reviewing the list below, what one should see is a pattern of evil that starts with our very earliest settlers; a rotten foundation cannot make for a long-lasting nation.
Breaking of contracts
Global Theft of land, monetary systems and gold
Oppression of certain people groups
Rank immorality and depravity
Injustice
Unsound mind
Human sacrifice
America is certainly not the author of oppression and “skin color preference”. The Bible records an argument in Numbers 12:1, where Miriam, sister of Moses, complains about Moses’ choice of a Cushite wife. While we don’t know the reason for her discontent, one can surmise that the culture or skin color difference was a possibility. In any case, Yehovah punished Miriam with leprosy, which should give us pause when denigrating anyone for a physical characteristic. The nations produced by Abraham have been in constant conflict from their earliest times. The silly thing is, one can markedly change one’s skin color within 2 generations. Just look at Patrick Mahomes’ children. Would you think they had a black grandpa? But they are just as much his grandkids with his DNA. I have seen brother and sister look completely different. One Polynesian like her dad, one European like this mom. Skin color is a poor reflector of DNA.
We know that the early Colonial settlers started the practice of oppression within a few years of the discovery of the “new world”. Scientists and anthropologists, using Darwin, Mendelian genetics and comparative anatomy, taught that Africans were inferior in intellect and traits. Some taught that they were not human, not pure human, based on physical characteristics, which, while not justified, at least provides an explanation of the barbaric behavior of slavers and slaveholders.
Further, religion had a hand in denigrating the African with the Cain theory. They thought that Cain mated with a pre-Adamic race, thus producing the African. What produced the different skin colors is micro-evolution. People who migrated north made less melanin so they could absorb enough vitamin D and vice versa. Dark skinned people have a superpower. They can tolerate heat and they can be out in the sun for long times without severe sunburn. Northern Europeans do not thrive in heat and strong sun. Their superpower is that they don’t need a lot of sunlight to make adequate amounts of vitamin D. The agricultural system in Colonial America needed a lot of workers suited for a hot climate and strong sun. It made sense to use people suited for the working environment but how they were obtained is an abomination even given the false science and religious climate of the day.
And it is this lingering disrespect that probably underlies the “Jim Crow” laws after the Constitutional amendments freed all persons. If one still views the African as a “non-person” then this prejudice will transfer to local laws.
Nothing, not man or beast, should ever be treated with the level of disrespect showed the Africans. Worse, it appears that at least some Africans knew Hebrew, and recorded it in at least one pew in Georgia. The Western Africa area is listed as “Juda” on ancient maps. It certainly makes sense that a portion of Jewish people fled to Africa during the destruction of the temple. For those who give weight to Moses’ warnings in Deuteronomy 28:49, the Africans are well placed to be some of the Israelites who experience the horror of a nation who will “will come from the ends of the earth, like fast flying eagles. You wont understand their language and they will be a fearsome people who won’t respect your old or pity your young.”
The Indian was viewed slightly better, but not much. They were “savages”. Yet there was also a long-lived discussion over the possibility that they, and the Indigenous people of South America, were derivatives of the “Lost Israelites”. Indeed, a report from a Jewish explorer stated that some South American tribes knew a spattering of Hebrew and had names that were Hebrew. The idea is made stronger by the reports from Polynesia explorers like Samuel Marsden, who felt that the tribes found on the many islands were Hebrew in origin. In spite of this discussion, the First Nations were humiliated and conquered. Their humiliation and despair continue to this day.
America’s occupation of Haiti, resulting in massacre and outright thievery, is a great example of our tyrannical policy when we feel threatened. History records the underlying reason as outright greed, spearheaded by the National City Bank of New York, who essentially took over the Bank of Haiti and instilled the new Bank of the Republic of Haiti, and in 1914, US Marines removed Haiti’s gold reserves.
These are but 3 of many examples, and I dont need to justify that this belongs on the list of offenses. So what do we do about it? I think America has been very aware and has made many policy changes, some good and some bad. These are quick thoughts and I do not believe the effort is one sided. Our dark skinned citizens have a lot of cleaning up to do on their end as well.
The Bible tells us to “consider the poor”. This means to carefully consider the reasons for their poverty and work to reverse it. Here is one example: I cared for minority moms as a nursing student. It was not unusual to see multiparous teenage black moms. I actually cared for an unwed 24-year-old having her SEVENTH child. Unwed motherhood is a one-way ticket to poverty. Parents and schools need to drill in the financial loss over a lifetime related to unwed motherhood in teenage girls. What we did was subsidize unwed motherhood for all, and many unwed mothers monetized it.
The Jim Crow laws ended in 1965. I would love to see a compensation plan developed to put in some seed money in a retirement account to all American citizen black workers who were born prior to 1965 so they can use it for their old age. Since they grew up in an oppressed age, they deserve recompensating. The present generation is well protected but the elderly are vulnerable.
For the Indian, we need to start at the broken contracts and ask them their thoughts on compensation. Then follow through on it.
For Haiti, give them back their gold!
In order to “move on”, we need to develop color blindness for true equal opportunity by starting with the job application and hiring process. Stop policies that reward the mediocre. For example, my husband could not pursue his top two occupation choices due to discrimination policy. My husband has a Mensa IQ, and got a 97% on the Air Traffic Controller Entrance Exam but he was not picked because up to 20 points were added to any black person’s entrance exam. Meaning that anyone getting over an 80 would be preferred to him. I for one would prefer the sharpest and the brightest to be controlling an airplane 40000 miles in the air. So some of these policies are not the safest.
In turn, oppressed peoples need to reverse the statistics as authors and initiators of the majority of crime. Money does not make you moral. Often it is the opposite. Get your house in order! Men, marry your women and put your family first! Stop stealing and murdering! Stop loving the world and its’ treasures! Show the world your best side.
There needs to be a culture adjustment in many of the minorities. If you value “Getting ahead”, you will need to sacrifice your free time in the best years of your life. Dont spend your lot of designer stuff and fancy hairdo’s. That stuff will suck you dry. You know how my dad got money for my college? He started when we were in pre-school by sending us to the best places he could afford and telling us daily how much it meant to him. When I was 9 years old, he spent two years away from us working in Saudi Arabia then invested it all in a college fund. We were working poor, and my dad was determined to send us to college. He sacrificed “the good life” because watching us walk down the aisle with a diploma was that important to him. My earliest memories were about the importance of education. Parents, have a vision, impress it on your children and work toward it.
Politically, America needs to keep their nose out of other people’s business. Unless asked. Period.
RePrEsSeD ExPrEsSiOnS
America’s Seen Deadly Sins, Part Three
In a culture of “do what thou wilt” with a foundation of “the pursuit of happiness” can anyone wonder that America is a land foundering under its own depravity? We are a double minded people caught up in the rat race of “getting ahead”, unable to understand Solomon’s concept of “nothing good under the sun” while flagrantly disregarding the Biblical wisdom of “money is the root of all evil”, yet ostensibly we live under a very moral code of laws in the Constitution.
Inherent in the culture promoted within the above, we have, over time, violated many of the rules for good living set down by the ancient Hebrews in their scriptures. We have NOT learned that “do what thou wilt” (an ancient foundational philosophy of living re-popularized by Aleister Crawley in the early 1900’s), leads to heartache and misery. The problem is, the heartache and misery are often shoved down the throats of the vulnerable, groups that Yahovah was particularly interested in protecting.
In this 7-part series, I say nothing that has not been said before, for Solomon tells us that there is truly “nothing new under the sun”, but in light of what I believe is a seven-year warning period that started with the “Great American Eclipse” in 2017, I say it at a time when I believe a great disaster is in our near future. My gut says 2024 based on the scriptures declaration that great signs will herald judgements from our Creator. And what greater sign is an X written in the heart of ones’ nation on April 8, 2024, crossing an area where a great earthquake topographically altered millions of acres in 1811?
I will, admittedly briefly, review the following indictments, one post for each. One can argue that these are all linked, yes of course they are, but I have a few specific points to share in each, and I believe these to be the most heinous of our crimes. When reviewing the list below, what one should see is a pattern of evil that starts with our very earliest settlers; a rotten foundation cannot make for a long-lasting nation.
America is certainly not the author of oppression and “skin color preference”. The Bible records an argument in Numbers 12:1, where Miriam, sister of Moses, complains about Moses’ choice of a Cushite wife. While we don’t know the reason for her discontent, one can surmise that the culture or skin color difference was a possibility. In any case, Yehovah punished Miriam with leprosy, which should give us pause when denigrating anyone for a physical characteristic. The nations produced by Abraham have been in constant conflict from their earliest times. The silly thing is, one can markedly change one’s skin color within 2 generations. Just look at Patrick Mahomes’ children. Would you think they had a black grandpa? But they are just as much his grandkids with his DNA. I have seen brother and sister look completely different. One Polynesian like her dad, one European like this mom. Skin color is a poor reflector of DNA.
We know that the early Colonial settlers started the practice of oppression within a few years of the discovery of the “new world”. Scientists and anthropologists, using Darwin, Mendelian genetics and comparative anatomy, taught that Africans were inferior in intellect and traits. Some taught that they were not human, not pure human, based on physical characteristics, which, while not justified, at least provides an explanation of the barbaric behavior of slavers and slaveholders.
Further, religion had a hand in denigrating the African with the Cain theory. They thought that Cain mated with a pre-Adamic race, thus producing the African. What produced the different skin colors is micro-evolution. People who migrated north made less melanin so they could absorb enough vitamin D and vice versa. Dark skinned people have a superpower. They can tolerate heat and they can be out in the sun for long times without severe sunburn. Northern Europeans do not thrive in heat and strong sun. Their superpower is that they don’t need a lot of sunlight to make adequate amounts of vitamin D. The agricultural system in Colonial America needed a lot of workers suited for a hot climate and strong sun. It made sense to use people suited for the working environment but how they were obtained is an abomination even given the false science and religious climate of the day.
And it is this lingering disrespect that probably underlies the “Jim Crow” laws after the Constitutional amendments freed all persons. If one still views the African as a “non-person” then this prejudice will transfer to local laws.
Nothing, not man or beast, should ever be treated with the level of disrespect showed the Africans. Worse, it appears that at least some Africans knew Hebrew, and recorded it in at least one pew in Georgia. The Western Africa area is listed as “Juda” on ancient maps. It certainly makes sense that a portion of Jewish people fled to Africa during the destruction of the temple. For those who give weight to Moses’ warnings in Deuteronomy 28:49, the Africans are well placed to be some of the Israelites who experience the horror of a nation who will “will come from the ends of the earth, like fast flying eagles. You wont understand their language and they will be a fearsome people who won’t respect your old or pity your young.”
The Indian was viewed slightly better, but not much. They were “savages”. Yet there was also a long-lived discussion over the possibility that they, and the Indigenous people of South America, were derivatives of the “Lost Israelites”. Indeed, a report from a Jewish explorer stated that some South American tribes knew a spattering of Hebrew and had names that were Hebrew. The idea is made stronger by the reports from Polynesia explorers like Samuel Marsden, who felt that the tribes found on the many islands were Hebrew in origin. In spite of this discussion, the First Nations were humiliated and conquered. Their humiliation and despair continue to this day.
America’s occupation of Haiti, resulting in massacre and outright thievery, is a great example of our tyrannical policy when we feel threatened. History records the underlying reason as outright greed, spearheaded by the National City Bank of New York, who essentially took over the Bank of Haiti and instilled the new Bank of the Republic of Haiti, and in 1914, US Marines removed Haiti’s gold reserves.
These are but 3 of many examples, and I dont need to justify that this belongs on the list of offenses. So what do we do about it? I think America has been very aware and has made many policy changes, some good and some bad. These are quick thoughts and I do not believe the effort is one sided. Our dark skinned citizens have a lot of cleaning up to do on their end as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_occupation_of_Haiti
https://blacksimba.medium.com/the-scattered-hebrews-house-of-judah-b7ceafd28198
https://library.artstor.org/#/object/SS7731300_7731300_10955344_CUNY
https://www.jstor.org/stable/41067988
https://brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/judaica/pages/tribes.html
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