Book Review: Praedamus Let Us Prey Selling Heaven: It’s All An Illusion
by Don Spears
Publication Date: Dec 19, 2014
List Price: $24.95
Format: Paperback, 424 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780692349212
Imprint: Spears Publishing
Publisher: Spears Publishing
Parent Company: Spears Publishing
Read a Description of Praedamus Let Us Prey Selling Heaven: It’s All An Illusion
Book Reviewed by Kam Williams
“Religion plays an important part in most people’s lives… Many of us have absolute and often blind faith in the churches we attend. But is such dedication and unconditional loyalty well-founded, or even smart? Is it good for people to live their fragile lives based on stories told to them by someone who is not an informed, trusted family member, or a loyal and devoted friend?
Why have Christian churches kept their members in the dark for over 2,000 years? What did the church hierarchy actually know that wasn’t being shared? And why does the church continue to keep secrets, and will that always be the case?
Let Us Prey takes a brief look at organized religion and its attendant, ominous consequences. It is an attempt to help you understand and appreciate how and why your secular world and spiritual world work, or do not work.” —Excerpted from the Preface (pages 11-12)
Televangelist Creflo Dollar recently asked members of his congregation to
tithe the $60 million he needs to buy himself a luxurious Gulfstream jet so
he could travel in style while spreading the word of the Lord around the
world. Is the popular prosperity preacher sincere or just another hustler in
a collar?
Before you answer, you might want to read Praedamus: Let
Us Prey, a jaw dropping expose’ written by Don Spears, a brother who is not
one to mince words while making a full frontal assault on organized
religion. This very timely tome represents the culmination of 9 years of
research in religious history stretching back centuries from the present.
The erudite author tackles an impressive range of topics,
including racism, homosexuality, Jesus, slavery, Shakespeare, lynching, Sir
Francis Bacon and the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans by European
colonists, to name a few. Despite the diverse subject-matter, the book adds
up to make a cohesive point, since every discussion relates directly to
religion.
For example, he talks about how the evil institution of
slavery was made respectable by Christianity. This enabled slave masters to
pass themselves off as moral pillars of the community while committing
serial rapes on black females whose private parts they literally owned.
Spears goes so far as to speculate that the reason the Confederates were
willing to secede from the Union and die in the hundreds of thousands rather
than abolish slavery was because of the sex on demand they had become so
addicted to.
Elsewhere in the text, the author questions the wisdom
of adopting the faith of one’s enslavers, before offering Black Liberation
Theology as a viable alternative. That progressive philosophy indicts
“un-Christian” white racists for pushing a different brand of their religion
on blacks than the one they practiced. Consequently, to this day, most
African-Americans “stake their whole existence on heaven,” as opposed to the
way whites focus on faring well, materially, in this life.
Other
chapters explore whether Jesus was gay, if Shakespeare ghostwrote the King
James Version of the Bible, and how lynching functioned “as a way of
reminding blacks of their inferiority and powerlessness.” Spears’ ultimate
aim, here, is ostensibly to undo the ongoing brainwashing of the black
masses by the time they finish reading his incendiary arguments.
A
whole new look at the Good Book arguably bordering on blasphemy.