If you follow this blog then you know that I do not live life as a person of color but rather a "Kid of the Kingdom" From a position of faith I am constantly discovering the level, the many, many levels of wisdom and knowledge found within the Bible, what the Jews know and Israel....It seems to be endless. I question much of HOW I was taught to understand the scriptures from a Western Theological viewpoint. In fact, I now toss much of this in the trash as it leads us away from God's intention concerning Israel, certainly our Jewish brethren. (Our Messiah walked in the flesh Jewish for a kazillion reasons.) Western Theology focuses on his death, burial and resurrection or the "New Testament" And does so foundational, from a "Replacement Theological position. This is subtly understood when using the very terms, Old Testament & New Testament. I always ask, "What part of Yahweh is old and what part of Yahweh is new?"
Missing in this Biblical understanding is about 99% of much of what he did before he entered Mary's womb. I no longer argue the mixture of God's word found in Christianity, I just write about it.
I read the following piece from the Frederick Douglass Foundation and thought, "If I were still fighting conservative values" from a political perspective this would be a must read. I think black folks who follow COLOR are following a pied piper type spirit of hell right into a fiery furnace, if you will.
I think anyone who is racially motivated to use skin color against what YHWH intended is insurmountably stupid! These folks agree somewhat?
The
Frederick Douglass Foundation
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." Frederick Douglass
"We Believe in the Sanctity of Human Life and the Protection of Traditional Marriage"
Immediate Press Release
Contact Person: Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D.
Email Address: info@tfdf.org
WAKE-UP BLACK AMERICA: YOU HAVE BEEN BETRAYED
An Open Letter From The
Frederick Douglass Foundation to the POTUS, NAACP, Members of the
Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Margaret
Sangers Negro Leaders
It is sad that in today’s society, our first black president isn’t
willing to answer his critics himself and needs liberal groups to smear
any detractors as racist. The NAACP has used this cultural extortion to embarrass the Black community, betray its' membership and shame the
Reverend Franklin Graham into apologizing for not being able to
wholeheartedly admit that he believes that President Obama is a true
Christian without feeling like he’s lying. By the NAACP’s assumption
that this is a racial issue, it seems that they’re claiming that the
rules of God for a black man are different than those for a white man.
We, at the Frederick Douglass Foundation, condemn the NAACP's recent
passing of the resolution in support of marriage equality and the attack
on Rev. Franklin Graham, because we understand his seeming
unwillingness to proclaim and honor President Obama’s Christian
devoutness. We all need to look at ourselves in the mirror in the
morning. Pretending he believes that President Obama is truly devout in
his worship of the Christian God would likely make the Reverend feel
like he’s being forced to sacrifice his credibility in order to fulfill
some politically correct dictate. It seems that the NAACP thinks that
questioning President Obama is the same as hating him for being black.
And that’s a shame.
The existence of the black man’s equality rests upon his believing
that he must live by the same rules as the white man. Instead, demanding
that the white man treat the black man with unquestionable delicacy
while at the same time treating the white man as if he were guilty of
racial animosity without proof is a sure way to violate the agreement
society has come to in regards to equality.
So, in standing with Rev. Franklin Graham, here are some things
about President Obama that make us question his Christian sincerity.
Please note, we, like Rev. Graham, are not questioning his salvation.
Only God can judge that. We are only pointing out that President Obama’s
actions do not necessarily match his words.
As a State Senator in Illinois, then Senator Obama voted against the
state’s Born Alive Infant Protection Act. This was a law that said that
infants who survive abortions should be given medical attention. In the
state Senate Debate on April 4, 2002, Senator Obama said:
“As I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending physician
who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in
fact, this is a nonviable fetus; that if that fetus, or child — however
way you want to describe it — is now outside the mother’s womb and the
doctor continues to think that it’s nonviable but there’s, let’s say,
movement or some indication that, in fact, they’re not just coming out
limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second
physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live
child that could be saved. Is that correct?”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225404/why-obama-really-voted-infanticide/andrew-c-mccarthy?pg=2
A similar bill passed the US Senate before President Obama was there by a vote of 98-0. Not even NARAL opposed it.
When a baby decides he or she doesn’t want to go out like this in
the abortionist’s office, Senator Obama voted to allow it to die alone
in a cold metal cupboard. He was concerned that the mother and abortion
“doctor” would be burdened with having to make a life or death decision
that might conflict with the mother’s previous decision to kill her
unborn baby, or “fetus” as he likes to call it. This is infanticide. The
Christian God commands: “Thou Shalt not murder.” Murder by neglect is
still murder, and Senator Obama voted for murder by neglect. These are
not the sentiments of a devout Christian.
In the NAACP’S open letter to Rev. Graham, you write: “We are
appalled then and now by the venomous insinuation that a sitting
Democratic President who cares deeply ‘for the least of these’ is
Christian in name only.” With his recent statements declaring his
personal support for same sex marriage, words and actions in support of
the Anti-Life agenda, how in any way does President Obama seem as though
he does indeed care at all “for the least of these, i.e. unborn child?”
Regarding his Obamacare mandates that all insurance plans cover
birth control, sterility and abortifacient drugs, President Obama again
shows his disdain for Christians. This has much more to do with
religious freedoms than the media suggests. They seem to focus on the
forcing of Catholics to pay for insurance plans that cover birth
control, but what about sterility and abortifacient drugs? These two
mandates offend Christians of all denominations. God said that we should
be fruitful and multiply. He didn’t say get sterile, have no kids and
rely on the socialist welfare state as you near death.
As well, abortifacient drugs are just another method of abortion.
Incidentally, if you watch Maafa 21, you’ll learn that the company that
makes the RU-486 morning-after pill also made the Zyklon-B gas that the
Nazi's used in the gas chambers during the genocide of World War II.
That company is Hoechst AG. President Obama assures us this is for the
health of women. A devout Christian knows that killing babies within the
first 63 days of conception has nothing to do with the health of women.
Furthermore, if one doesn’t want to pay for an insurance plan that
covers the abortion pill, one will have to go without insurance. And if
one goes without insurance, one will be fined by the government- the
same government that mandates that we pay for insurance policies that
cover the abortion pill. These fines will then be used to fund the
insurance of poor folks who can’t afford a policy, including the
coverage of the abortion pills for these folks. Knowing this, if one
decides that his conscience will not allow him to pay this fine, this
individual can be put in jail. President Obama is essentially making us
all pay for abortion- even it violates our conscience- or go to jail.
This is dictatorial and demonic. It is not something a devout Christian
would do. It also isn’t something that one, who respects the
Constitution enough to have read the First Amendment, would do either.
So if the Rev. Franklin Graham said that he believed that President
Obama was a devout Christian, it would be just as much a lie as when
President Obama says that he’s against gay marriage. He says one thing,
but does another. He has instructed his Justice Department not to defend
the President Clinton-signed Defense of Marriage Act in Court because
he contends it’s unconstitutional.
If defending marriage, an institution created by God in Genesis, is
unconstitutional, then President Obama should just declare himself god.
Marriage existed with a God-given meaning before our Constitution was
written and before the United States even existed. When a man of
government takes it upon himself to wink-wink his way through the
nation-wide redefinition of marriage, he is a man who spits in the
general direction of God. If marriage has a meaning that can be
redefined by the whims of man, then marriage has no meaning at all. A
devout Christian would understand that.
It is not necessarily racist to be hesitant to proclaim that a black
man is a devout Christian when that man’s actions suggest a severe
disdain for those who are devout. The NAACP should be better than this.
They refused to speak up for President Bush when liberals were doing
plays about his assassination. They refused to stick up for him when the
daughter of James Byrd said: “So when Governor George W. Bush refused
to support hate-crime legislation, it was like my father was killed all
over again.” The NAACP actually ran that ad with her voice. Nonetheless,
hate-crimes legislation wasn’t needed to get James Byrd the ultimate
penalty. On September 21, 2011, white supremacist Lawrence Russell
Brewer was executed by the state of Texas.
Did the NAACP apologize to President Bush for accusing him of racist
motives and of dropping the ball? The only reason the execution took so
long was that there were a bunch of liberal lawyers out there trying to
keep him alive. Additional hate-crimes legislation would have done
nothing to speed up his execution. The legislation would instead simply
perpetuate the premise that the black man isn’t equal by writing the
inequalities into law.
Since President Obama refuses to answer to his critics personally
and since his teleprompter doesn’t seem to care what we think, we, at
the Frederick Douglass Foundation, invite the NAACP to answer our
concerns on his behalf. The members of the NAACP seem adept at wielding
the Living Word of God in defense of the first black president. Please
feel free to try and justify your position or the President’s positions
above. Forcing the Rev. Graham to lie by vouching for the supposed
devoutness of a man with an apparent demonic coldness towards all that
is Christian, simply because it is a white man and a black man, is not
the way to achieve racial equality in society. Until a white man can
judge a black man by “the content of his character” without it
automatically being a racial issue, there is no equality.
Signed,
Timothy F. Johnson, Ph.D.
Founder and President of the Frederick Douglass Foundation
Former Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Party (2009-2011)
Reference Material:
NC Passes Resolution in Support of Marriage Equality http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-passes-resolution-in-support-of-marriage-equalit
NC NAACP: Religious Leaders Forum
From One Born Again Evangelical to Another: An Open Letter to Rev. Franklin Graham and the Evangelical Christian Community
http://bit.ly/GLTYYs
NAACP faith leads speak out on Franklin Graham
http://bit.ly/whh9Qf
Link to Roland Martins Washington Watch website. There are several
links to the African American Pastors meeting with Franklin Graham
http://bit.ly/GJSuOB