Garvey's Ghost: Black Talk

BS in the Name of Christ

So I've been really busy and unable to post for a while. I even missed my Garvey Quote for his birthday. However, that which I did do on August 17th makes up for it by far.

Anyway this post is a result of the non-sense that I find myself reading about coming from certain Christian quarters. I thought the whole Intelligent Design thing was perhaps the silliest thing that a good number of Christians have come up with to attempt to get Christian Creationism (there are other creation stories out there) taught in classrooms. But more nasty things appear on the horizon as Pat Robertson spewed his hatred of Venezuela's head of state. Says Robertson:

Thanks, Dale. If you look back just a few years, there was a popular coup that overthrew him; and what did the United States State Department do about it? Virtually nothing; and as a result, within about 48 hours, that coup was broken, Chavez was back in power. But we had a chance to move in. He has destroyed the Venezuelan economy, and he’s going to make that a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent. I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war, and I don’t think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger, and this is in our sphere of influence, so we can’t let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, and we have other doctrines that we have announced, and without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don’t need another 200-billion-dollar war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. It’s a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.

Commandments be damned!! Lets commit murder seeing as how we covet his oil and tell all kinds of Lies in order to try to get him ousted from office. I guess Robertson has no clue about democracy given that in this Christian country a president can take office without the majority of votes nor can that president be re-called or have a referendum called to remove him from office. Oh no, the fact that Chavez was elected and confirmed by the majority of the people in his country is a sign of a dictator.

To prove that such idiocy in Christendom is not limited to old white men, one Chavannes Jeune in Haiti is running for presidency of Haiti stating:

eune believes his Christianity will positively influence Haiti if he is elected. “Good, solid Christian values like justice, truth, transparency and integrity are lacking in Haiti, so I think that with the gift of God and the help of God, I can bring these things to my country.”

Bhy what arrogance does this man assert and co-opt such notions as Justice, Truth, Transparency and integrity as being the providence of Christianity?

That article that hosted the defaming statement is chock full of other defamatory statements such as:

On Aug. 14, 1791, a black slave and witch doctor named Boukman led Haitian slaves in a voodoo ritual, drinking the blood of a sacrificed pig to form a pact with the devil. The slaves agreed to serve Satan for 200 years in exchange for freedom from French colonizers who ruled their island. Beginning on Aug. 22, 1791, the slaves rose up against the French, and by Jan. 1, 1804, they declared Haiti the world's first independent black republic

It is of little wonder that the "intelligent Design" proponents are so STUPID since they rely on Christian publications such as this to "inform" themselves on world history. Boukman was what was referred to as a Hougan or Papaloa, using local vernacular, He would also be called a Babaloa which would be closer to the Yoruba root of the word as "Baba" is the yoruba word for father as Papa is the local slang for father. a Loa is the Haitian term for the Orisa, what the Yoruba call messengers of God whom they (and I) call Olodumare. the Babaloa is the equivalent of the Babalawo of the Ifa religion which the symbolic side of Haitian Vodun is based upon. a Babalawo is literally the father of wisdom. This wisdom is gained by gathering information from Orisa which is why the Haitian reference of Babloa is linguistically and practically derived from the Yoroba. This is important to understand because there is no devil in Yoruba theology. Therefore it is impossible for Boukman to have "made a pact" with the devil since he could not have believed in a devil as Christians understand the figure.

The second problem is the sensational "drinking of blood of the pig. I don't see anyone calling people who eat rare meat names. I don't see anyone critiqing Christians for symbolic blood drinking they do for communion.

I see that it is asking too much for a Christian publication to actually get their facts straight when discussing religion (even thier own). Earlier I discussed an article in which a black Christian was asking that so called "liberals" stop being intolerant and bigoted towards Christians. He should understand that such articles as these and other offenses are the sole reason for the hostilities that Christians get from so called "liberals." If Christians are serious about wishing to not treated hostily then they should deal first and foremost with these types of articles and organizations.

Links:
http://www.cbn.com/about/pressrelease_hugochavez.asp
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/religiontoday/1347510.html