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According to Nana Ashanti the following statement is made: "There have been no major civil wars where Africans practiced their traditional African religions and cultures". Does that say something to us? SHOULD it say something to us?

Read the article in it's entirety below.

THE SILVER STOOL # 5

Nana Kwabena Faheem Ashanti, Ph.D.

JESUS AND THE ANGELS ARE

SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY

(Part 1.)

There is no doubt in my mind that the title of this article is very offensive and insulting to Christians and Moslems. This is certainly not my intent for writing. Instead, I am only demonstrating what it looks and feels like to be on the receiving end of being the Defined and Oppressed by racist ideological supremacist.

This column is a response to Mr. Bode’ Adeboyejo and his racist attack on Iyanla Vanzant in the April edition of Emerge magazine. Mr. Bode’ is a Nigerian of ethnic Yoruba heritage; a black Christian man in the Washington, D.C. area. Yes, a black person can be racist toward other black people. Just ask Clarence. He, like the other Negroes who oppose Affirmative Action for example, is more effective as a racist than the original racist white missionaries and social scientists that colonized Nigeria.

Bode’ does not speak for most Nigerian Yorubas as he claims; he speaks only for people like himself, and other potential candidates for Jonestown and Rugazi, Uganda. In the same manner that the black Hebrew Saul lost his ethnic heritage when he accepted the Greek name St. Paul, when converted by the white Greeks and Romans to Christianity in Turkey, Mr. Adedoyejo lost his right to be a Yoruba when he was converted to Christianity in Lagos and Washington, D.C. [Peter] Bode’ Adeboyejo is now a Negro. Perhaps, it should be sister Iyanla Vanzant serving as the missionary to us in America, as well as being sent to Africa. It is

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quite evident that Iyanla threatens some of the preachers here, and in Africa. Why?

Everyone’s religion and spirituality, regardless of race, ethnicity, or culture, should be respected. In any event, that

religion and spirituality will only be effective for the race or ethnic groups that created and developed it. God never created a religion---- man did. It should not be necessary to tear down another’s religion in order for one’s own to stand.

I am very qualified to judge Mr. Adeboyejo. I am an expert on African cultures and religious denominations, hold a doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology, am an Akan-Vodu priest, a member of the Association of Black Psychologist, Chairman of the American African Traditional Healers and Root Doctors Board, and author of 14 books, including the Psychotechnology of Brainwashing: Crucifying Willie Lynch; and Africentric Religion and Spiritual Healing .

I, all Yorubas, and practitioners of the PtahRa religion (African traditional religions), are deeply insulted, and offended, by Mr. Adeboyejo for referring to our African religion as “Idolatry”. All the well-known holy books I have read, in the most well known revealed religions, say that no one has ever seen the Creator (God). This being the case, I ask Mr. Adeboyejo, “What makes your God and angels the real thing, and my African Creator God and gods idols?” The truth of this matter is that my African God and gods have been turned, by the early white fathers of Christianity, into your Jesus and angels. The natural original religion of all black people is that of PtahRa (African traditional religions, including African cultural Islam and African Hebrew). No, contrary to Mr. Adeboyejo, all people are not the children of

Adam. If Bode’ is, then he was most certainly adopted and converted.

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Another word for religion is power. The group that has the power will always define your God and your religion. It is religion that has the power to determine your : name, education, culture, economics, rituals, and military. This was the case between the

white slave masters and the black slaves in America. That was how African Americans became Christians in the first place. Ask your

preachers, they are supposed to know this. Afterall, they claim to know all the other things that God wants you to do and think.

Emerge should now understand that just because one is black, that does not make one culturally African. Negroes are culturally white people. Once again, ask Clarence. Like many African Americans, there are too many Africans from the continent that are ashamed of, embarrassed by, do not really understand, and do not practice their traditional cultures or religions. In fact, in America, most blacks you see wearing African clothes and accessories are African Americans – not Africans from the continent.

Iyanla Vanzant is a healer. At the very least, she is respectful and honest regarding her African Yoruba, Asian, and European western spiritual orientations. On the other hand, Mr. Bode’ spreads sickness. He is both a racist and dishonest. Despite his disclaimers of such, his criticisms of Iyanla, the religion (Orisa) of his ethnic ancestors (Yoruba), and by extension all PtahRa (African religions), he is a tool of white supremacy. However, he is just too brainwashed to know it. He uses racist terms like “idolatry” for the African religion, and “tribe” for an African ethnic group. He does not do this for non-African religions and races. He calls all theirs by their proper names, yet refer to those of his own African Yoruba culture as “pagan”. The psychotechnology of brainwashing in white supremacy occurred on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Mr. Bode’ Adeboyejo is no longer the Yoruba he claims to be. In his own words he says, “ I am a Nigerian, a Yourba and

a born-again Christian…I see my culture being bastardized.” Well, talk about mixing things up (bastardized); a Nigerian, a Yoruba, and the Orisha religion go together in harmony ---a Nigerian, a Yoruba, and Christianity does not fit. The Christian religion is actually foreign to Nigeria, the Yoruba, and all African peoples.

Even in Ethiopia, the most mention country in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, the original religion of the Ethiopians, before Coptic Christianity, and Islam, was an African traditional religion called Oromo. Their name for God was, and still is for the practitioners, Waaqayoo. In addition, they worshipped the Ayyaana, the lessor godchildren of Waaqayoo. The Oromo religion, the Hebrew religion, the Vodu of the Fon-Ewe, the Orisha of the Yourba, and the Abosom of the Akan, all descended from the parent Kemetic religion of Egypt. Who’s really bastardized here? Is it you, Mr. Bode’?

No Mr. Adeboyejo, every living person is not “a descendant of Adam.” The mythical Adam was a white man, and we are black. The Hindus, the Buddhist, the Ashanti, the Zulu, and the Yoruba are most certainly not. Ask them and find out.

Mr. Adeboyejo is an African Negro (a creation of white supremacy) brainwashed to reject Olorun, his cultural Yoruba God of Creation. Give him Jesus, the God of the white missionary

people that colonized Nigeria, and he will be just fine. Bode’ says that “Jesus was the only one not born of a natural conception of man and woman.” Well, I have some news for Mr. Adeboyejo that his preacher and the Bible did not tell or inform him about.

THE SILVER STOOL # 6

Nana Kwabena Faheem Ashanti, Ph.D.

JESUS AND THE ANGELS ARE

SPIRITUAL IDOLATRY

(Part 2.)

There were many virgins, other than Mary (Mother of Jesus), that was impregnated by Gods. Their offspring were African Gods, Greek Gods, Roman Kings, Generals, heroes, Philosophers, and religious thinkers. Our African ancestors, the Kemets (Egyptians), whom the ethnic Yoruba of Nigeria are descended, were among the first humans on earth to believe that their kings were begotten by Ra-Amen (The God of Creation). These kings were the sons of Amen-Ra. Today, the kings of the Yoruba, called Obas, are still believed to be the children of God (Olorun). I guess the Christian missionaries didn’t tell Bode’, the critic of sister Iyanla Vanzant, these facts. Just because an individual is from Africa, does not

mean that he or she knows and practices African culture and religion.

The Kemetic (Egyptian) priests claimed that their God of the afterlife, Heru, (who fits all the descriptions of the Greek and Roman God Jesus), all their Netchers (gods), and even Kings and

Queens, were the children of God. Heru (Horus in Greek) was born of a virgin, on December 25, and even had 12 disciples. Queen Hatshepsut was the offspring of the God Amen and a virgin mortal woman. Yes, this is the same Amen that you call upon to end your Christian Prayers. The Pharaoh, Sesostris I, was begotten by God Harakty.

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In the Old Testament, our black African Hebrew Ancestors, even said or implied that: Sarah, Leah, Rebecca, and Zipporah, were impregnated by God. Among the Greeks there were the following who were said to be born of a virgin: Perseus (centuries before Jesus), Apollonis, Plato, and Pythagoras. Let’s not forget

the non-Christian examples of virgin births. Among them are Buddha (China Buddhism), and Krishna (India Hinduism).

If it is true, as Bode’ Adeboyejo claims, that most Yorubas have renounced their God (Olorun) and religious rituals (Orisha) for those of Jesus and Christianity, then the English white missionaries, that went to Nigeria in 1799, were quite successful in converting Yorubas ( What about the Ibos, Hausas, etc.). However, I know that it was the freed slaves, that had been brainwashed and converted in America, Brazil, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, that was actually responsible for most of the cultural religious damages in Africa and Nigeria. Today, Africans from America, and on the continent, carrying the rewards and punishments of their white teachers, are still doing this. In Nigeria, about 80 percent of the Igbos are Christians. Too many of their children, in an African country, can not even speak their own African languages.

The following is the actual true status of the Orisha religion today among the ethnic Yorubas of Nigeria. This assessment

comes from one of the greatest Yoruba scholars within Nigeria – not Washington, D.C., Dr. Wande Abimbola (1976, 1991).

“…Despite the devastating effects of Islam and Christianity on the …religion of the Yoruba, the [Orisa] religion continues to hold its own and is regarded in modern Nigeria as one of three major religions in the country. Christianity has acted as a check to the Yoruba inclination for multiplicity of wives through the practice of one man, one wife, but it has not been able to achieve a serious success. A good number of Yoruba Christians still marry more than one wife. Magic and medicine are features of Yoruba

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traditional religion, which are still influencing Yoruba contemporary society despite the incursion of foreign religions and the Western system of therapeutics. The Muslims, Christians, and others patronize local herbalists in Yorubaland.”

One has only to travel to Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Liberia, Nigeria, or Ghana, to see 30 feet tall pictures of a white blue eyed JESUS all over the cities. There are pictures of a white JESUS inside of most taxies and in many homes. Even blacks here in America find this perplexing. Here, these JESUS pictures are being taken down from the walls of our churches, or are being replaced with pictures of a BLACK JESUS.

Every major civil war that has occurred in Africa, for the last 15 years until now, happened between African ethnic groups that were, and still are, Christians on both sides. This was true in genocidal war in Rwanda where 800,000 Tutsis and Hutu were murdered. There have been no major civil wars where Africans practiced their traditional African religions and cultures. This should tell you something.

There is an African proverb that says “It is much easier to throw stones at the little bird eating your corn, than it is to throw stones at the elephant tearing down your house.” It is not Iyanla Vanzant that is luring our people with mixed messages and conning Christians. We have too many other individuals like Rev. T.D. Jakes, and …………., and………….., doing this all over America and Africa. Answer this question. Who led our people to the slaughter of deaths in Jonestown (over 800), and in Uganda (over 900 killed)? Christian preachers. What was the religion? Christianity.

In my holy book of Ashanti 4:11, it says that, “For there shall arise brainwashed false Africans, the former enslaved in America, and the former colonized in Africa, with the Willie Lynch Syndrome and they shall show great signs and wonders, like

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trained zombies, and if it were possible would deceive Emerge and the readers.”

Again, Dr. Wande Abimbola says, “It should be accepted that Yoruba traditional religion no longer holds sway over the entire population in terms of cultic activities, yet it influences the society in various ways as itemized above. It is a statement of fact that traditional religion, despite the entry of foreign faiths, has been the sine qua non of the existence of the Yoruba. Foreign religions [Christianity] and modern trends have not been able to relegate traditional religion (Orisa) to the states of a thing of the past. The religion is so relevant and meaningful to a good number of Yoruba, Muslims, and Christians alike in contemporary Yorubaland as it was in pre-Islamic and Christian era.

Mr. Willie Lynch --- oh I’m sorry --- I meant to say Mr. Adeboyejo, speak for yourself, and not the thousands of Yorubas who are still faithful to their God, Gods, Egungun (Ancestors), and culture. This time I am the Definer. Those who Define will have Freedom and Power.

** Note: Emerge Magazine no longer publishes as it was. Reportedly, it is undergoing editorial management changes. The Gods have spoken !

Nana Kwabena F. Ashanti, Ph.D., WWW . AshantiTone . Com

Tel: (919) 515-2425 Fax: (919) 309 - 1088