If we allow ourselves to be mesmerized by the Paradigm-B worldview and the material world, we cannot hope to distinguish Reality from illusion. American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce detailed the danger of deriving our identity from our religion. “If we inflate form we may concern ourselves too much with matters of concepts, ideas, belief-systems, dogmas, doctrines, organizations, rituals, techniques, procedures, policies and traditions. We may become so concerned with our religion that we cut ourselves off from the spirit which would give life to that religion. We fail to make attunement with the divine within and we fail to give expression to the spirit in guided service to others.”[i]
A book by Robert P. Jones entitled The Legacy of White Supremacy in America is certain to be controversial. “The book reaches its apex of evidence around its midpoint, when Jones draws on his extensive experience with polling about religion to introduce a ‘racism index’–a set of 15 survey questions designed to assess attitudes toward white supremacy and Black people. The findings are clear: ‘The more racist attitudes a person holds, the more likely he or she is to identify as a white Christian.’ The results hold true for regular and infrequent churchgoers, across geographical regions and for white evangelicals, mainline Protestants and Roman Catholics. It’s hard to argue with his conclusions that white supremacy is somehow genetically encoded into white Christianity in the United States.”[ii] Not hard at all really!
White supremacy is part of that community’s worldview, it is part of the broader belief in the other which is taught to members of many communities worldwide. It is an insidious, odious and toxic belief responsible for much of the violence in the Global Village.
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Supplemental Reading: Christianity, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 1
#19 White Supremacy
[i] Puryear, Herbert B. The Edgar Cayce Primer. New York: Bantam, 1982, p. 205.
[ii] Tisby, Jemar. “Confession.” The New York Times Book Review. October 4, 2020, p. 18.
