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    God is Black, but Obama Ain't
    God is Black, but Obama Ain't
    God is Black, but Obama Ain't
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    God is Black, but Obama Ain't

    By Kenneth Pealock

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    The author's introductory quote sets the stage for his book: "I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."― Arthur C. Clark. This book is a collection of critical and sometimes witty essays on race, religion, politics, slavery, wars and fools. The author begins by laying bare the idiotic arguments about the color and sex of God. From there he tackles the issue of racism, including why it is racist to call Obama black when he is half white. Another chapter is devoted to the circus called politics. Still others argue we are enslaved by the income tax, property tax and the Federal Reserve. And the final and longest chapter exposes the truth behind this country's wars and the millions of lives needlessly lost.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKen Pealock
    Release dateNov 15, 2019
    ISBN9781393043423
    God is Black, but Obama Ain't
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    Kenneth Pealock

    Ken Pealock is a prolific writer in many different genres: self-help books, politics, religion, cartoon books and novels. He has a background in marketing, advertising, psychology and constitutional law. During his colorful career, he has published 67 books, sued the entire 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, filed numerous pro se petitions to the Supreme Court, and once held power of attorney over hundreds of secret CIA bank accounts. He lives in Georgia

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      God is Black, but Obama Ain't - Kenneth Pealock

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      I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

      ― Arthur C. Clark

      ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT books I ever read was Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, by Charles Mackay. Though published in 1841 (and boring), the author details instances of mob delusions prevalent at the time.

      Today, we have an entire nation, perhaps the world as well, that has gone completely bonkers. The primary delusions involve racism, religion, politics, slavery and war.

      In this book, I give you modern-day examples of popular delusions and the madness of crowds. I begin with a discussion of a popular novel titled The Shack that has sold over 20 million copies and was made into a movie.

      In case you aren’t familiar with this over-hyped crap, here is the background story excerpted from Wikipedia:

      The main character is Mackenzie Allen Phillips, a father of five called Mack by his family and friends. Four years prior to the main events of the story, Mack takes three of his children on a camping trip. Two of his children are playing in a canoe when it flips and almost drowns Mack's son. Mack is able to save his son by rushing to the water and freeing him from the canoe's webbing but unintentionally leaves his youngest daughter Missy alone at their campsite. After Mack returns, he sees that Missy is missing. The police are called, and the family discovers that Missy has been abducted and murdered by a serial killer known as the Little Ladykiller. The police find an abandoned shack in the woods where Missy was taken. Her bloodied clothing is found, but her body is not located. Mack's life sinks into what he calls The Great Sadness.

      As the novel begins, Mack receives a note in his mailbox from Papa, saying that he would like to meet with Mack that coming weekend at the shack. Mack is puzzled by the note—he has had no relationship with his abusive father since he left home at age 13. He suspects that the note may be from God whom his wife Nan refers to as Papa.

      He goes alone to the shack, unsure of what he will see there. He arrives and initially finds nothing, but as he is leaving, the shack and its surroundings are supernaturally transformed into a lush and inviting scene. He enters the shack and encounters manifestations of the three persons of the Trinity. God the Father takes the form of an African American woman who calls herself Elousia and Papa; Jesus is a Middle Eastern carpenter; and the Holy Spirit physically manifests as an Asian woman named Sarayu.

      The bulk of the book narrates Mack's conversations with Papa, Jesus, and Sarayu as he comes to terms with Missy's death and his relationship with the three of them. Mack also has various experiences with each of them. Mack walks across a lake with Jesus, sees an image of his (Earthly) father in Heaven with Sarayu, and has a conversation with Sophia, the personification of God's wisdom. At the end of his visit, Mack goes on a hike with Papa, now appearing as an older Native American male, who shows him where Missy's body was left in a cave.

      After spending the weekend at the shack, Mack leaves and is so preoccupied with his thoughts that he is nearly killed in an automobile accident. After his recovery, he realizes that he did not in fact spend the weekend at the shack, but that his accident occurred on the same day that he arrived at the shack. He also leads the police to the cave that Papa revealed, and they find Missy's body still lying there. With the help of forensic evidence discovered at the scene, the Little Ladykiller is arrested and put on trial.

      The Shack has sold over 20-million copies and had been at No. 1 on The New York Times best seller list for 70 weeks. The Shack was also released in hardcover and translated into Spanish as LaCabaña. In June 2009, a German translation with the title Die Hütte ein Wochenende mit Gott (... a Weekend with God) was released. It was also translated into Croatian as Koliba and it became very popular in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book was also translated into Polish as Chata and published in 2009. There were re-editions in 2011 and 2017 due to its popularity.

      Can someone explain to me why such an absurd plot and poorly written novel could possibly be a best-seller on the New York Times list? Isn’t this proof of the madness in the world?

      Since The Shack involves the preposterous characterization of God as a black woman, I googled some silly arguments. This tidbit is from Sohale Sizar, a contributor to HuffPost, who explains Why God Is Black:

      "I started investigating the whiteness of God and it was not until I read Toward a Philosophy of Zen Buddhism by Toshihiko Izutsu that I really realized that God might not be white.

      From a mystical standpoint—which transcends the social constructions of whiteness and blackness—it seems that God is black as much as He is white. He is white light as much as he is black darkness. In this case, blackness is not evil. Rather, it represents the absence of our ego in the presence of God, a testament to His pure Oneness."

      Are you kidding me? Here is more foolishness posted on February 15, 2016 by Queen Adira Standard:

      Today, many refer to God (the creator of the universe) as He and Father." But before it was Father God, it was Mother God. The ancient world knew it was the mother that kept them in her womb for 9 months, birthed them and nurtured them during their earliest stages of life. They recognized her divine responsibility and they believed the woman was identical to the universe. Therefore, they created female deities, worshiped her and held her in high esteem.

      Since we were created in God’s image and scientist have proven that all human genetic DNA traces back to one African woman, that would mean the black woman is a direct descendant of the creator of the universe and that creator is a great big black woman.

      Then there is this posting by Lucas Nolan titled, God Is a Black Woman:

      "Author of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling, recently expressed her belief that God is a black woman following the defeat of Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate election.

      The Hill reports that J.K. Rowling, the British children’s book author behind the Harry Potter series, posted a tweet recently stating that, due to Roy Moore’s defeat in the Alabama Senate election, God must be a black woman — likely a reference to the large number of female black voters that voted for Doug Jones. Some exit polls showed that 98 percent of black female voters voted for Jones.

      Rowling’s reference to God being in control was likely a reference to a video that she had retweeted earlier of Roy Moore refusing to concede the election, in which he stated, ‘we also know that God is in control.’"

      Still more insanity was posted by Patrick Frye: Racist Boy Dies and Sees Black Jesus In Near Death Experience, Asks KKK Leader, Why God Is A ‘N-Word’.

      "A report is alleging that a racist boy named Billy Landers experienced a near death experience where he saw Jesus Christ in Heaven. The part that was upsetting to the Ku Klux Klan was the claim that Jesus was noticeably black in his skin tone. But is this report real or just a hoax?

      "The story about Billy Landers claims the boy is a son of a KKK member in Mobile, Alabama. The 13-year-old Billy supposedly suffered from a liver failure and was technically dead on the operating table for three minutes before being resuscitated.

      "Sounding almost like others stories saying Heaven is real, the boy claims he saw visions of Heaven. But when Billy allegedly told his Ku Klux Klan family the details they were flabbergasted.

      It was all [n-word], Billy said. "There were a few white people, but they were just entertaining the blacks, like playing basketball. There were lots of [n-word] angels watching them play basketball. Jesus was a [racial slur], too. Jesus wasn’t white like Daddy says he is. I asked my father ‘Why is Jesus a [n-word]?’ He couldn’t answer. I’d been taught that God and Jesus hates [n-word]. That God cursed them by turning their skin black. That they were ‘mud people.

      What makes this story sad and funny is that dad is going to put his son on anti-psychotics medicine. It’s not Wow Billy you saw Jesus in heaven? It’s Let’s put him on anti-psychotic drugs because Jesus can’t be black. How do you know. If you believe in God and all the bible, Jesus was born in Bethlehem. The town of Bethlehem is in the West Bank, some six miles south of Jerusalem. Here’s something to think about: If Jesus showed up here in the states, he would be killed or even worst crucified again. All because of the color of his skin.

      More foolishness is in a post shared on May 5, 2017:

      "If portraying God as a woman upsets some people, portraying the Lord as a black woman, as she is in the 2011 A Little Bit of Heaven (she is played by Whoopi Goldberg) and The Shack, a 2017 Christian drama based on a 2007 book of the same name, sends religious racists into a conniption fit. Joe Schimmel, a California pastor and host of the documentary Hollywood’s War on God, for example, told Christian News Network that The Shack’s "pretentious caricature of God as a heavy set, cushy, non-judgmental, African American woman called ‘Papa’ ... and his depiction of the Holy Spirit as a frail Asian woman with the Hindu name, Sarayu, lends itself to a dangerous and false image of God and idolatry.

      Nevertheless, despite the predictable criticism, plenty of people are persisting in trying to overturn the idea that God is an old, white man. Last year, for example, Harmonia Rosales, an artist from Chicago, painted a version of Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, reimagining both God and the first man as black women – and it went viral.

      This one seems reasonable:

      In answering the question, ‘Is God male or female,’ it is important to note that God did not appear in physical form anywhere in the Bible. 1 John 4:12 says, ‘No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.’ In Exodus 33:20 God says, ‘You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.’ From all aboutspirituality.org

      The entire issue still presupposes the existence of a God who, depending on whether you believe Jesus was God, adopted the form of a man (or woman) with skin pigments. Ergo, if God has skin pigments, then he must also have hair, teeth, guts, a penis (or a vagina or both) and a rectum. If Jesus was God, why did he need to sacrifice himself on the cross? This raises yet another pointless question for lunatics who endlessly argue that Jesus was God:

      Did Jesus poop?

      Why is everyone talking about this? Well there’s a lot at stake here. Much of early Christian theological debate is taken up with the issue of how Jesus is both a god and a human being. Early on there were some early Christians who thought that Jesus only seemed" to have a human body but in reality was a god. You can see why Christians who held this position thought Jesus never went to the bathroom. This position, which is known as Docetism, would come to be rejected as heresy, but those who wanted to argue that Jesus was truly human have to explain how the combination of humanity and divinity works. While they are doing that, they are also trying to avoid the idea that the divinity in Jesus is somehow defiled by or corrupted by all the disgusting aspects

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