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<p>In have not in my limited experience seen anyone come right after imbibing the poison of what I call “Christian” Black Consciousness. For many, the tenets of that consciousness are music to an ear itching subconsciously to detach from God. The rationale is indeed seductive and the arguments are apt yet imperceptibly, spiritually suicidal. There is no problem in this world: social, political, economic and otherwise that practical Godliness, that the salient tenet of Christianity and scripture does not address. In South Africa, Black Consciousness as pushed to the fore by legendary Steve Biko had its place in the arena of politics. It worked, and perhaps still works well in that space, NOT in Christendom. </p>
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<p>The elephant in the room is sin. Issues of social injustice, colonisation, white supremacy etc are mere institutional symptoms of sin. The unchristian “christian” off shoot of BC  is a  sophisticated distraction from the real issues of sin and transformation. It is a fractionated and fragmented approach to dealing with the fundamental problems that dog humanity. It has no answer, neither does it equip individuals of all races to deal with every person’s biggest enemy: self. </p>
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<p>BC thus carries the dual ideological flaw of misdiagnoses and subsequent mis-prescription. </p>
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<p>The associative ideology of Africanism in this context, is another colossal fallacy in the spiritual arena. And this is the Achilles' heel of every human dictum. These ideologies easily  land themselves inevitably in the absurdities of romanticizing indigenous African traditional culture as if:</p>
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<ol><li>African traditional culture has always been and is homogeneous </li><li>Africa was blissful, perfect paradise before the white man came (i.e. there were no witch craft, wars, tribalism, misogyny and moral declension etc)</li><li>Africanism is the panacea to the universal and underlying problem of sin.</li></ol>
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<p>Notwithstanding, there are always some positives with every culture. However, what is the relevance of arguing for a human framework in face of a supreme and superior culture and consciousness of Christianity. It’s either Christianity is absolutely sufficient or it is completely irrelevant. If it is sufficient all other human ideologies are subordinated to it at best or decisively supplanted. </p>
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<p>Mathew 22 37-40<br> Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.</p>
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<p>In light of the foregoing, the ultimate deliverable of the scripture and Christianity is practical godliness for all colors, black, white, blue and powder pink as it were. This principle undercuts and undermines every form of sin injurious to self and to others. We have a problem of confusing our deficiencies of application (praxis) as the inadequacies of the framework. </p>
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<p>Ephesians 6:12<br>
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.</p>
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<p>In the context of Ephesians 6:12 to embrace Christian Black Consciousness and even BC (as a Christian) is to bring a knife to a gun fight. <br>
This is why Paul has this radical consciousness to offer to Christians:</p>
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<p>Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.</p>
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<p>I have some modicum of respect however for those who have intellectual stamina to leave the church when they have found its doctrines and teachings incompatible with their desired thinking. My anathema is a set “Christian” Black Consciousness disciples who continually attack and vilify the teachings of the church and remain devotedly within its ranks. These are apparently devoid of absolute confidence in their larger-than-life philosophical excursions and as such seek social-proof for their esoteric, convoluted and wafer thin theorems whose rationale has a life-span of a fly.  </p>
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<p>Friends, the mind human is malleable. The mind can cosy up to any wind of doctrine as long as it is sufficiently exposed to it. So yes, the intrinsic merits of Christianity and the Bible must be tested and their veracity must be established and not assumed. While the zealous Christian has a homework to transcend Christianisation by socialization and colonization, the doubting mind must similarly transcend the socio-political and deal with the fundamental existential questions that transcend, predate and supersede the socio-political. </p>
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<p>The writer and reader of this have a potential to believe anything. We can swing from creation to evolution easily based on the deliberate choices of what to expose our minds to, hence the apt warning, to guard the avenues of the soul. Freedom of thought is not synonymous with unlimited aptitutde of thought. Like it or not the human has limits and thus it has to submit either to God or the Devil to excel in either of the two polars. </p>
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<p>When we consider the solemn invite from the Supreme Deity, “Come now and let us reason together”,  (Isiah 1:18) prayerful critical literacy will illuminate the fact that Christianity is not a nascent station of ignorance but the ultimate conclusion of the whole matter. It will dawn that Christianity is not a hypothesis but the resolution of the great controversy. </p>
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