Thank you for your pertinent remarks Tyehimba. I disagree on many of your points however.

I am fully aware the roots of Christianity go back with the African mysteries. Indeed, ancient Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Syria were the Holy lands of the ancient world and the Christian mysteries were holy whose power was supreme. However, such condition did not prevailed ever since the Christian religion was organized and established in 325 A.D by Roman churchmen at the council of Nicea. Remember the council was presided by the archi-murderer Constantine, Emperor of Rome, who slaughtered millions of innocent people because they refused to accept the falsehood dogmas and ambitions of the Nicean Fathers and instead preferred to follow Truth. It quite obvious Islam, Christianity and Judaism of today underwent additions, deletions and false translations over 1000 years. Therefore, I think it is improper to claim that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are somewhat indigenous in their accounts. For there is nothing that is Black African about their "sacred" books that are something wholly and absolutely "White".

I also know that the Christians and Muslims Caucasians exerted great brutality and tight discipline for controlling the passions, morals and traditions of Africans and slaves. And many Kongo and Orisha faithful found it convenient to blend their traditional African religion and the Christian and Islamic faith for survival at the height of slavery in Africa and the Diaspora. However, even the Afro-Caribbean Ifa/Orisha tradition (the most with Catholic iconography), has not suppressed belief in the feminine concepts of the Divine and the worship of spirits or energies of the universe. In fact, at the dawn of the formulation of the African-Caribbean religions, the practitioners neither sought to honor patriarchal messages nor mimic Hebrew prophets and metaphors of Israel as an affidavit. You cite the Obeah for instance, keep in mind however, that the Rastafarians patriarchs always distanced themselves form the Kongo and Orisha religions, for the majority of them associated (and many still do today associate) Obeah with the symbol of “demon”. With more acerbity than the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Leonard Howell himself cursed the Obeah practitioners. Despite the fact that the cultural background of Jamaica, originated and developed in Obeah and Kumina folklore, sound of drumbeats and chanting, Howell vehemently said the Rastafarian yard was not an obeah society and Obeah faithful were not admitted at the great house called Pinnacle Hill. Alas, throughout the ages and in all civilizations, such ungrateful rejection and authoritarianism much contributed to underdevelop human religions, values and justice.

There have been and continue to be traditional spiritual African houses, and some Afro-Caribbean houses that have preserved unspoiled indigenous practices. It is has been common in the Bantu forests regions of central Africa, in Benin, Haiti, Brazil, Cuba, and Jamaica and it seem in Miami and New York for these initiates to challenge, in my opinion, MORE POWERFULLY the white European and Semites political trickery and cunning, death-dealing and destructive spiritual powers. Black Africans seeking the concept of TRUTH cannot yield to lies as scriptures. The consequences of fanatic orgy thinking coupled with fallacy have always proved to be detrimental to Black people the world over. At any rate, this is my own opinion.

Bantu Kelani.