Give Thankhs Still Eternally Looking (as am I)...
"Please articulate an answer, to all of the I's question's." Are you a teacher?
***Student and Teacher, as we all are, and please articulate an answer to all of the I's questions (this time)
In the story of jesus there were 2 groups that had questions for him. 1) those that wished to listen and think about what he was saying and 2) those that were looking for a particular answer.
out of the first group came his disciples and out of the second came the politicians and clergy who crucified him because he did not give the answers they wished to hear.
you are of the second group. you are not asking questions to overstand --- you are asking questions to cast judgement on the answers that do not fit into your current views. A very fundalmentalist christian approach.
*** In trying to overstand where the I is coming from, of course my questions are judgmental, because you're making statements that are very difficult to back up, and the I has still not backed them up. Granted, I do have a point of view, but I'm not trying to base mine on half truths. Christ said to follow Him, the Jews said He was full of it, I'm not trying to crucify the I but just like the disciples how can I believe if the I doesn't answer the questions
Why do you have questions? I have not written in code. InI views are very clear.
***Like I said, you're basing your views on half truths, thus, they're about 50% clear, so I simply asked the I to articulate, something you seem afraid to do. His Majesty is a Christian and a great African leader, how can the I separate the two? this is my question, and you have not been clear about it at all.
I love and respect Selassie I and have learned much from HIM. I love and respect Mother Africa.
***I'm glad to hear it, but what has the I learned from the FACT that His Majesty was a devout christian?
the I is upset or frustrated with I however on the issue of jesus, which by the way I never said "the myth makes you sick to your stomach".
***I'm sorry, you are right, you said it hurts your soul, my bad
And actually you in your last post basically have said what I have said, but you think by changing words your view is somehow different. I call it a myth, and you say, "I can't prove that Christ existed in a physical sense, but as a "concept"....".
is a concept really different than a myth? or does a myth teach a concept? does the santa myth teach the concept of giving. does the tortoise and hare myth teach the concept of persistence. The jesus myth teaches the concept of love. I have no problem with that, but the reality is, the jesus myth is a european myth.
***I see where the I is coming from, and I never said all myths are bad, many myths are there to teach a concept of righteousness and I love them for that. Now, jeezus is a european myth, IYASUS, however was not created by the minds of europeans. If the I is trying to say that you're just not comfortable with using the example of Christ outright because of european perversion, that would make perfect sense, and I wouldn't judge the I in the slightest for saying so. Yet, europeans did not write the original Bible, and unless I'm crazy I read one of His Majesty's speeches in which he states "we Ethiopians have the OLDEST version of the Bible", what does that mean to the I?
When I am in Africa and I see pictures of a white jesus in the houses of Africans it hurts my soul. As the Spear cries out every other nation has their god, Why can't InInInI.
To 99% of the people in the world, when they hear the name jesus they think white. Yea-- a tiny fraction of rastas have found the bible passages that seem to describe the hero figure as black. But to the vast majority he is white.
***I'm not wrapped up in the majority world vision of jeezus's racial background. I don't think there are any Rastas that haven't come to the conclusion that even the kjv is presenting an Iyasus that is not white
When InI own children go out in the world -- if I have been chanting up the mythical figure jesus (even if I tell them he was black) they will run into the opposition that speaks of him as if he is white. They will then either argue with them or start to question what they learn at home.
*** If you and yours are not feeling the story of Iyasus then don't teach it to the I's children, but I don't see how the I can teach them of His Majesty and just leave out the "myth" that He based so much, if not all, of His life upon
When InI children go out in the world from a house that chants up Selassie I, they will not run into any opposition that speaks of HIM as white. There will be no question. HE is no myth. HE is real and HE is African
***And He was an extremely passionate Christian, the Defender of the Faith, the Head of the Tewahedo Beta Christian, a Man who built Christian churches the world over, a Man who had a picture of a white Iyasus hanging over His own bed, who even spoke at world Christian conferences when he was invited by the evangelist billy graham. And if the I actually think that His Majesty cared about the skin color of Christ, then you'd be wrong.
"the first light becomes brighter the longer we close our eyes so our first reaction is to shut them again".
*** Love the quote, and although it may not seem like it, we agree on more than the I might realize. What I've been disagreeing with, and what the I has construed as fundamentalist christian judgements is the true person of His Majesty Qedemawi Haile Selassie. So for the sake of trying let me ask the I one more time, and PLEASE address the question this time: If the I's soul is hurt by the myth of Iyasus, which is not of european origin, why does the I uplift the Man that believes in the Myth???
Hailing His Majesty for being one of Africa's great warriors and leaders is fine and I'm not trying to discourage the I, but I am trying to overstand how the I separates His Majesty's Christian livity from who He is, and I'm quite sure that the I's children will be asking the same question one day.
AHADU AMLAK
SELAM
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