Faith as a Weapon: How Religious Authority Fuels Oppression in Extremist Movements

Ecclesiastical Oppression: Understanding Religious Control and Its Impacts Ecclesiastical oppression refers to the misuse of religious authority to dominate, control, or suppress individuals or groups within a religious system. Throughout history, various religious institutions have wielded power in ways that have led to political, social, and psychological oppression. This type of control can manifest in several ways, from restricting freedoms …

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Whoopi Bites the Dust

The wrath of God’s chosen people have again put another “Upperclass Black” back in their place. Whoopi Goldberg made a comment about the Jewish holocaust and some Jews felt harmed by her statement. The fact of the matter is Judaism is a religion and not a supposed race, even though the strategic term “race” is a made up construct to …

Christian Nationalism: Far-Right Agenda, Segue to Maintaining White Supremacy

June 8, 2020 AM Racism’s perpetual occurrences and reaffirmation continues to be a thorny affliction, kneaded in the sour dough social construct of America. The Trump era is attempting to ratify racism through christian nationalist policy influence, while the GOP’s silent vote allow white supremacy out of the shadows and into daylight through a smog filtered sun. The prerogative of …

Three Blind Mice and More Give Love a Bad Name

Louisiana pastor, Rev. Tony Spell refuses to stop holding church services says ‘true Christians’ view death as a ‘welcome friend’. This guy gives love a bad name. “Like any zealot or like any pure religious person, death looks to them like a welcome friend. True Christians do not mind dying. They fear living in fear,” the Rev. Tony Spell, pastor …

Seven of “His” Mighty Servants Succumb to COVID-19 Complications

April 5, 2020 PM Update: April 14, 2020 – Since the original publishing date, it has been reported to the writer several other COGIC clergy have fell victim to COVID-19. Their names will be forthcoming. The Historic First Jurisdiction of Michigan has lost seven COGIC (Church of God In Christ) stewards to complications brought on by the coronavirus. Excerpt From …

In His Holy Name, What Happened?

Originally Published April 1, 2020 AMUpdated: April 16, 2020 PM The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rage devastation globally. A surprising and unnerving story is taking on a life of its own implicating virus exposure at a COGIC church conference in Kansas City, Kansas. The headline reads: People who attended church conference in KCK possibly exposed to coronavirus KDHE …

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Bishop Ervin Sims Jr: In Retrospect

January 14, 2019 Bishop Ervin Sims Jr: A Kansas based community leader, spiritual counselor, and businessman was recently laid to rest today in Kansas City, Kansas. The characteristic of a good leader embellish several qualities which Sims possessed, nurtured, and grew. I witnessed his obvious vision and his practice of intricate planning and execution. With all sizable visions come the …

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Onward, Christian Fascists Marching Off to War

Please excuse me as I drift into a little creative trolling. Onward Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus, Going on before. With that exercise in artful rhetoric, the greatest moral failing of the liberal Christian church was its refusal, justified in the name of tolerance and dialogue, to denounce the followers of the Christian right …

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Trump’s Critics Demonically Possessed?

November 26, 2020PM The headline reads: Are Trump’s Critics Demonically Possessed? Two of the president’s prominent evangelical supporters are literally demonizing his opponents. They go further to say, Graham, Metaxas, a Salem Radio Network talk-show host, asked the son of the late evangelist Billy Graham, “What do you think of what is happening now? I mean, it’s a very bizarre …