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Following up on an earlier conversation on the meaning on spirituality Just emphasizing the distinction between religion and spirituality: "The Romans and the Greeks had no color prejudice comparable to the kind of prejudice we would know later on, otherwise why would three Africans become Emperors of Rome? Why would there be three African Popes? Finally, Constantine decided to make Christianity the religion of the whole of the Roman Empire. Now we’re coming to the critical period when the Roman domination of the church has corrupted the church, the Africans began some disenchantment with the Roman interpretation of Christianity. Constantine called a council of Bishops and Priests at a place called Nice, this is the Nicene Conference. It is at this conference that the European created a European concept of Christianity. It was at this conference that they began to take the African Saints out of the literature of Christianity. Now the corruption had started. The physical concept of Jesus Christ did not exist. Now how did it come into existence? Because the Pope commissioned it to come into existence. Regarding the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michealangelo painted the picture using one of his relatives as a model, and that picture, one of the finest pieces of propaganda ever projected in history, has changed the minds of millions of people, as who is supposed to represent God, whoever He or She is, and I have no problem with the ‘She.’ Spirituality is a way of accepting the fact that: there is a spiritual force in the universe larger than all of mankind. But someone had to come along and invent a word called ‘God.’ Then someone had to say of another God, ‘Mine is better than yours.’ Someone had to create ‘faith’ and say ‘I have the True Faith.’ Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the handmaiden of conquerors. Nearly, all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors and used as the framework to control their minds. My main point here is if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, then in your imagination, God’s supposed to look like you! And when you accept a picture of the Deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people." —John Henrik Clarke from the in the documentary, A Great and Mighty Walk. The quote above is at the 39 minute 50 sec point in the video below This is not the first time I've posted this video here, but of course there are always people you have yet to discover Dr. Clarke and his work.

I know your comment was in response to @Delano but for me, as someone who is politically neutral, I do not see white supremacy as an argument. I believe the system of white supremacy is very real and it's the most destructive force against humanity on the planet. 😎

I think the white supremacy argument doesn't hold much if any weight here. The white supremacy argument has been the rallying cry anytime Democrats and The Left feel that they're losing their grip on controlling black America.

A global cataclysmic event that forces humanity to reset. 😎

😝 Man...calling yourself a part-time pimp with no women HARDLY qualifies as being an "employer".

Deepak Chopra put it very succinctly in his quote: Religion is believing in someone else's experience; Spirituality is having your own experience.