Hmm, am still trying to recover from the wonderful impact your last post on living your dreams had on me @humanearl, and now this one.

You could not have put it any better.

The part that got to me was the religion part. You know, the slave masters of then used 'Christianity' as a weapon of slavery. You know when people hear you say this, they think you are anti Christian. No, God forbid. I am a full bornagain Christian with all of my heart, but what those slave masters did was to twart God's word.

IT so happened that Slaves frequently were moved to hold their own religious meetings out of disgust for the vitiated gospel preached by their masters’ preachers. The preacher usually came and, he’d just say, ‘Serve your masters. Don’t steal your master’s turkey. Don’t steal your master’s chickens. Don’t steal your master’s hawgs. Don’t steal your master’s meat. Do whatsomever your master tells you to do.’ Same old thing all the time. Sometimes the slaves would want a real meetin’ with some real preachin’. They used to sing their songs in a whisper and pray in a whisper.
These false preachers never edifices their spirit or told them words that would lift their spirit up. It was all a means to keep them in bondage, rather than to free them.

This was not what Christ came for. He came to set the captive free.

Am glad this wonderful post of yours is coming now, so that we will start to give the issue of cultural heritage a serious thought.