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DECE BER 23 - 29, 1915 THE CITIZEN
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.I mean? So you can be finis with
Christmas, getting of the Santa Oaus
tuff, and then finall face yourself.
That' my iti n. But I didn't tell
th m to choo een them. They can
do hat th y ant.
But I id that I think it' kind 0 a
akne to try to thro them all in
th r and have them both at the same
tin . Separate them, and then make a
comparative analy i , what means most
to you and what giv you most of hat
you need. Th n choose. And then, too,
you might discover you like both of
th m. So people do. My· prefere
i Kwanzaa, mainly because I'm not a
Christian. .
I feel spiritually bankrupt at the
Christma holiday. It' nothing bu time
for bu in men to make money and
of gift-giving without heart. That'
I it is - and drunkenness. That's hat
I think when I think of Christmas, I think
of drunkenn and buying gifts and
gr t debt . P ple paying aD ear for
thing th y couldn't afford. A big whi _
man taking credit from BI people,
We don't do that in K anzaa. We give
gift tha re meaningful. You hav
. to ha book and a heritage symbol
regardle ofw ever gift you giv your
children. Boo to ho our stress on
edu n, d a herit ge sym to rein-
f our respect for our roots. And you
't give gifts ub . tute fo your-
If, nd they're not upposed to be so
e pen i e th they undenni you. But
o all and equally important' that
th BI c paren get credit for what
th y do, n a hit German that th y
n't even •• nothing about. '
·We your experiences in Maryland
th determinants of ou moving awa}t
m Christianity?
o. M re n, m d velopm ntal
re n, as my mo em nt from Chri -
riani . Christianity d n't hold ration-
all . ,it b d on Jewish myth-
I hich reall is a distorted form 0
Egyptian mytho ogy. Th Ten Com­
mandments, t Book of Proverbs, con-
Thi is th reason that h lped deliver me
from au; tianity. It is th t the' hit
man" brought it, that the Jew and Gen­
tile don't reflect my interest.
And the question is: What did be-
lieve before the Jew and Gentile ca ?
And if God i God, how i it that this
ne God i more important than the one
we had originally? That' what I would
li e to kno . How did thi come out?
Here we taught the white man, J and
Gentile, about God. We taught them the
Ten Commandments - we had 42. and
they just extracted 10. We taught them
cepts 0 resurrection - all of that comes
from Egyptian theology.
ow, I don't beli ve everything that I
hear in theology. What I'm interested in
is social morality and my question is:
Does a doctrine hold up internally?
Can it meet the test of its own criteria?
For example, if Christian says that
God is generous and that God did all
these things, the question I ould like to
rai is: Ho is it that so many evil
things happen? People would say that
this is a question of free will, but you
kno ,that's debatable. It is a question
of the character of God. Whether or
Jesu was really peace-loving man and
whether or not he as a kind. and
gentl man.
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. y" ,",ue Han ywood
isdom, art, and architectur . And ho
did the people, the e newcom rs
com and tell u ho to Ii e and call us
vag ? So reall that en ugh for
m to g t past it right then. but it
the irrationality f it and th a that
it a part of the ppre r' cultur,
and it a used to k p peopl up in the
rath r than on the earth her e­
erything el is happening. So if irra-
tional. It' the re n that led m
away from it.
It's hard for me to believe that. I
mean. if you're going to threaten me
with hellfire to get my allegia ,you
are n<>tioo ing for my love. If I threaten
my wife and y, "I'm going to bum you
up if ou don't 10 e me," I couldn't
et my iii' love, and I certainly
ouJd be con idered a psycho. So h do
religious people get away with claiming
that God is going to burn u if we don't
beli e wh t he says? That doesn't even
make sense.
So I don't want to live under that fear
and threat. I anted something mo
rational, r e respect for other human .
That is why I turned to African tradition­
al religion, which pushes emphasis ·on
life here and only here. I began to study
Egyptian theo ogy and extract from it be­
yond th piritualii m. I extract from it
the social morality of ho you live with
our brother and ister.
Th real test for m , of morality nd
pirituality and in the final analy is of
religion, i ho it works to unite men and
om n in the orld and ho it betters
our live nd rai us spiritually beyond
th animal orld. And it doesn't seem
that Christians have a good record of
that. It's the Christians that enslaved us.
Dr. Mauiuna Karellga
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