THE ROOT WORD OF IGNORANT IS “IGNORE!” by Ray Hagins
(I apologize for the how lengthy this is, but I needed to share it).
My (birth) name is Ray Hagins. My spiritual name is Sa Ra Ankh Hotep Maakheru Setep En Ra (which means “a son of God, who has been chosen by God to be a teacher of truth bringing (or giving) life and peace).” I became a licensed minister in March of 1973, and ordained in March of 1975 by the Late Bishop Chandler D. Owens in the Church of God in Christ. I am the Founder, President, CEO and The International Chief Elder and Spiritual Teacher of The Afrikan Village & Cultural Centers, with headquarters in St. Louis, MO (formerly the New Ephesus Missionary Baptist).
Thousands of people, who have listened to my 24-hour-a-day Internet webcast over the past 18 years, have asked me about how I made the transition from a being Pentecostal preacher (who was “sold out” for the so-called gospel of Jesus Christ) into an Afrikan conscious minister and warrior for the liberation of my people of Afrikan ancestry. After sharing my testimony with another minister, he suggested that I post the testimony of my transition into Afrikan consciousness and spirituality on the Internet in hopes of inspiring other brothers and sisters who may be at the point of coming into an Afrikan awareness from the quantum deception of European philosophical and religious thought. I pray that my testimony will help to strengthen and inspire others who are at the crossroads of the truth and tradition.
In 1987 I was invited to a meeting of about 25 Black men (educators, businessmen, community leaders, and 3 ministers) in my hometown of Paterson, New Jersey, to discuss strategies on how to economically empower our people and community. The meeting had not formerly started, and while we were standing around casually talking, I overheard one of the brothers (who was a youth pastor at the St. Paul Episcopal Church) say, "We need to get this European Jesus out of the minds of our people, and realize that the original, virgin-born Christ was named Horus."
I couldn’t believe what I had just heard! Immediately, everything in me shut down and I went into “battle station” mode. (After all that is what I was “programmed” to do, because the bible states in Jude 3 to “earnestly contend (i.e., fight to defend) for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.”) At this point in my life I was known as a “soldier” for Christ. I was the publisher of the newsletter entitled, “The Contender.”
When this brother said what he said about my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, I IMMEDIATELY went to "Def-Con 1" (“Def-Con” is a military phrase, which means "Defense Condition." Def-Con 5 is peacetime, Def-Con 4 is combat preparedness, Def-Con 3 is combat readiness, Def-Con 2 is at combat station, and Def-Con 1 means, “we are at war”).
So I stepped over to this brother and said, "What do you mean Jesus' name was Horace?" (I thought he was saying H-O-R-A-C-E.) He responded, "It WAS Horus. The first virgin-born, Christ-child was Horus of Egypt and the record of his birth dates back to over 6,000 years B.C."
Brothers and SIsters, I (with my sincere, but ignorant self) stood in the middle of the floor and shouted, "BROTHERS, I AM SORRY TO HAVE TO LEAVE, BUT ANYBODY WHO REFUSES TO ACCEPT WHO JESUS CHRIST IS, IS A DECEIVER AND IS OF THE DEVIL. I REBUKE YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS, AND I PLEAD THE BLOOD OF JESUS IN THIS PLACE."
(PLEASE NOTE: I said this because I honestly felt that I was in the midst of satanic agents.) Now, understand, these were Black men who were aware of the truth of our Afrikan history, and I saw my own (Black) brothers as deceptive agents of Satan!!! Now, did Euro-Gentile Cultural Imperialism and Supremacy (via my "Christian" training) do a job on me or what?
I left that meeting and actually declared war on these men. I used my radio show (and later my TV show) to blast these men. I felt that it was my sacred duty to defend the gospel of Jesus Christ and warn as many people as I could about these Black men (who I genuinely perceived as agents of the devil). I did this for well over a year.
The 3rd Sunday in March of 1991, as I stood up to preach at my church in Paterson, NJ, just as I was about to read the text for the message (which was Romans 8:28) it seemed as though someone whispered in my right ear, "Did people know God BEFORE Moses went up on the mountain?"
It was so clear that I actually turned around to see who was there because it seemed to be just that audible and clear. I told the congregation, "Y'all…wait a minute! This question just popped into my head (then I told them what it was). It wasn't that significant for them, but it was VERY significant for me because ALL of my theology began with and was based in Moses coming down off the mountain with the "Ten Commandments" (or "The Law". I will never forget that day because it was the day that I began to THINK! I actually exercised my critical thinking faculties and began to scrutinize what I had been taught all my life. I asked myself, “Did Moses have a God-consciousness BEFORE talking with God in a burning bush on the mountain?”
A few days later, during my devotions, I stumbled across Acts 7:20-22, which states: "In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months: And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son. And Moses was learned in ALL THE WISDOM OF THE EGYPTIANS, and was mighty in words and in deeds."
I pulled out my Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and looked up the word "wisdom" (as it was used in that particular verse); it comes from the Greek word "sophia," which means, "skill and discretion in imparting the truth of God; the knowledge and practice of the requisites for godly and upright living; supreme intelligence, such as belongs to God; the wisdom of God as evidenced in forming and executing counsels in the formation and government of the world and the scriptures." I said, WAIT A MINUTE!!! Moses got THIS from the Egyptians!!! --- It is important to note here that throughout my theological training I was taught that the Egyptians were barbaric, ignorant, enemies of and cursed by God.
Several days later, I was in downtown Paterson and I parked my car in front of Bazaar Books (a store that bought and sole used books). I had passed this store hundreds of times over the years and NEVER had the slightest inclination to go inside; but this particular day I was "moved" to go inside and browse around. Of course, the only area that really interested me was Religion & Philosophy.
I picked up a book entitled, "Osiris & The Egyptian Resurrection" (Part 1) by E.A. Wallis Budge. The idea of an Egyptian "RESURRECTION" caught my attention. I opened the front cover to the preface and came across the following words:
"The central figure of the ancient Egyptian Religion was Osiris, and the chief fundamentals of his cult were the BELIEF IN HIS DIVINITY, DEATH, RESURRECTION, and absolute control of the destinies of the bodies and souls of men. The central point of each Osirian's Religion was his HOPE OF RESURRECTION IN A TRANSFORMED BODY AND OF IMMORTALITY, WHICH COULD ONLY BE REALIZED BY HIM THROUGH THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF OSIRIS.”
I literally shouted out, "WHAT IN THE HELL IS THIS?" I immediately suffered what we psychologists call "cognitive dissonance." I knew that this was EXACTLY what I had believed since I was a child and had preached for more than 25 years, but the central figure of MY belief and message was a man called "Jesus Christ." What really bothered me was, according to what I had been taught, Jesus Christ was the ONLY person about whom such a message applied. Then when I read that this belief system had been with the Nile Valley Afrikans for at least the last 15 to 20 thousand years…I really lost it!!! You see, any bible scholar will tell you that the creation of the world only dates back to 4,004 B.C. (Google: Bishop James Ussher dates Genesis 1:1)
Then, to top it off, I read about the Ancient Afrikan TRINITY; which consisted of Ausar, Aset, and Heru (which the Europeans renamed: Osiris, Isis and HORUS)!!! I came to find out that Horus was the "virgin born, immaculately conceived" son of Osiris. As you can imagine, this led me on a sincere and intense search for factual and undeniable evidence for the TRUTH.
The more I researched, the more I realized that the entire program that I had been indoctrinated into was a LIE. In 1993, I decided to leave the ministry that I was so popular in and knew so well. I simply could not, any longer, stand in front of my people and teach that which I had found to be a stolen, copied, plagiarized and a European fabricated version of the ancient Afrikan concepts of spirituality.
Brothers and Sisters, this was the most painful period of my life. At one point I had become so depressed about my believing in LIES that I even had thoughts of suicide. How could I have been so wrong I couldn’t understand how I actually experienced “the power of God” moving upon me in mighty and awesome ways in the past IF this was all a lie I felt betrayed, humiliated, deceived, confused, unworthy, and like a complete failure.
Now, I wasn’t feeling all this because of the truths that I had come to find out about. No! For these truths were UNDENIABLE, and EVIDENCE that DEMANDED AN UNDENIABLE and INEVITABLE VERDICT! That verdict was that I had been lied to! I was angry with all those who taught me these lies (my parents, my teachers, my professors, etc.). The ONLY thing that helped me was coming to the realization that the same dog that bit me, bit my parents, and their parents too! They were only teaching me what they had been taught.
This, however, didn’t apply to my seminary professors. I met with the president of the seminary I graduated from, and asked him, “Why isn’t this information a part of the curriculum and course requirements for a degree in Sacred Literature?” He said to me, “You don’t need to know about that. Besides, it is not substantial data within the context of the mission statement of this institution.” WOW!!! He had just told me, in a politically correct way, that I had been trained (and degreed) in one of the biggest LIES of all time and that I was supposed to perpetuate this LIE and convince others of it through the preaching of the “gospel.”
After several years of intense research and securing an accurate education in the truth, I efficaciously returned to the pulpit in February of 1998, when I became the pastor of New Ephesus Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis. Through an old wise man, God convicted me in September of 1997 by asking me; “Son, if you young folk, whose eyes have been opened to the truth, abandon our people who don’t know no better, then what hope is there for us?” Then he said, “God DID call you to preach, but to preach the TRUTH!” I never saw that old man again!
Well, here I now am…
My reason for sharing this testimony is NOT to convert anyone to the information that I now KNOW…but simply to let you know that since the European invasion and theft of our people from our Motherland, we Afrikans have been born and raised in the LIE of European Religious and Cultural Imperialism and we think we are walking in the truth (because it is all that we know)! The religion that we have been made to love (i.e., Christianity), was forced upon us by European slave traders and those who enslaved us. Just that alone should make EVERY Black man, woman and child be suspect about the slave master's religion.
There is a phrase that says you reap what you sow. Well, that certainly is true, because I have gone through the same kind of attack that I viciously put on those brothers in 1987, who compassionately respected me in my ignorance. I wish that I could go back and tell them that I am so sorry for attacking their awareness with my ignorance…but most of them have passed on. They were the ones that God used to plant the seed of this truth in me. Now, when I am attacked, rebuked, ridiculed, and rejected by others who are sincerely ignorant, I see my “old” self and where I came from. That helps me to be compassionate on my attackers. I realize that they are sincerely defending what they genuinely think is the truth (just like I did).
Coming into the awareness of the truth of our Afrikan story can (and probably will be) very painful for you. I must admit that it’s very painful being called "an antichrist" or "a messenger of Satan" or "false prophet," etc., by your own people. It hurts being dis-fellowshipped by your family, friends, loved ones, and those who you care so deeply for…especially when they haven't done (nor are they willing to do) the research and learn what you have learned. But yet, in their minds, you are the one who is "deceived" and don't know what you are talking about. Believe me, IT HURTS SO BADLY!
Then there are those (Christians) who feel that I need to be stopped “for the sake of the gospel!" But I know that God and our Afrikan Ancestors have given me this assignment…AND I CAN'T STOP! Even if it means people who I care so deeply about walking away from me and seeing me as “blinded by Satan,” or even losing my physical life. And, it’s just THAT serious.
In 1998, a group of pastors in St. Louis, MO, attempted to shut down my church and said, “Hagins, we are going to stop you no matter what it takes.” These prominent Black pastors (in St. Louis) literally marched up in our church and tried to have me expelled saying that I was preaching “bad doctrine.” I told them that I am not preaching doctrine at all, but facts which can be easily verified by anyone, who really wants to know the truth. Then I said to those “pastors,” if any one of you can disprove or invalidate just ONE thing that I have said, I will step down and never open my mouth to utter another word again.” Needless to say, not one of those ministers (with their Th.B., B.A. in Biblical Studies, M. Div., Th. M., Th. D., and D.D. degrees could refute or disprove anything that I had taught.
I have actually pulled books from the libraries of other ministers, turned to the proof or source of the information in question and said, "Here, man. See for yourself.” They would look away and say, "I don't want to see that." I have stood across the desks of several friends (who were or are pastors) and asked them, “Brother, why are you having a problem with me when what I have said is right here in the very commentary and references that you study by and use to prepare your messages?” I understand that the reason they didn’t want to “see” was because then they, too, would be compelled to change, and that is definitely NOT an option for most pastors who have established their ministry on what they think they now, or can be voted out or removed from their pulpits if they do not preach and uphold the “doctrines” of that particular church or denomination.
Another problem that I was faced with was the problem with my music ministry. Over 90% of the songs that I wrote and used to sing, I couldn't sing them anymore. That’s when I began to realize that it’s not really about worshipping GOD! It’s about worshipping Jesus! But how can that be? Because even the biblical text states that Jesus said that NO ONE IS TO BE WORSHIPPED BUT GOD ALONE!!! "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and HIM ONLY shalt thou serve." (See Matthew 4:10 and Luke 4:.
Isn’t it something that (according to the biblical text) Jesus NEVER told his disciples to go preach (or teach) about him! He told his disciples, "As you go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of heaven is at hand" (Matthew 10:7). Not only could I not “preach” this Euro-Gentile "program" anymore...I couldn't sing about it either. Being that I was a gospel recording artist and the State Minister of Music for the State of New Jersey Churches of God in Christ, this was REALLY a major adjustment for me.
Brothers and Sisters, I painfully learned that my friends were my friends as long as we were in agreement “when it comes to Jesus.” I have been told many times, "The bible says, how can two walk together except they agree." I couldn't understand why other ministers (who I thought were my friends) discontinued our relationship as friends just because I learned something that they didn't know or agreed with! What did that have to do with me as a person?
I must say at this point, and please understand, what God reveals to you, is for YOU! I made the mistake of trying to take others along with me to the next level in MY growth and development. It doesn’t work that way! Realize that if you choose to learn more, you may very well lose some of your closest friends. You will want to take them to the next level with you, but realize that God is taking YOU there...not y'all there.
Please allow me to say that, as long as we keep allowing our religious indoctrinations to separate and divide us, we will never come together in unity as a people. The brothers and I (at the meeting I went to) never did get to accomplish what we came together in the first place for all because that youth pastor said something that I disagreed with (even though I had no idea what he was talking about).
In closing, I would like to share an excerpt of the minutes from the Council of Chalcedon, an Ecumenical Council Meeting of the Roman Catholic Church, which took place on October 8, 451 A.D. Note what these Roman Catholic bishops decreed:
“This wise and saving creed, the gift of divine grace, was sufficient for a perfect understanding and establishment of religion. For its teaching about the Father and the Son and the holy Spirit is complete, and it sets out the Lord's becoming human to those who faithfully accept it.
Since we have formulated these things with all possible accuracy and attention, the sacred and universal synod decreed that no one is permitted to produce, or even to write down or compose, any other creed or to think or teach otherwise. As for those who dare either to compose another creed or even to promulgate or teach or hand down another creed for those who wish to convert to a recognition of the truth from Hellenism or from Judaism, or from any kind of heresy at all: if they be bishops or clerics, the bishops are to be deposed from the episcopacy and the clerics from the clergy; if they be monks or layfolk, they are to be anathematized (i.e., accursed).”
Notice that, according to this decree, you are not even allowed to THINK anything other than what you have been indoctrinated to believe. This is our problem people. When we disrespect the research and knowledge of those who KNOW, because we have chosen to ignore (or be ignorant), we shut the door on our own growth, development and empowerment.
Hotep (Peace),
Brother Ray

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Gilbertkwabena:
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Its easy to show a Christian the contradictions in the Quran. When you do, they will shout:"wow, this book cant be from a god". If you try to tell them that the bible is full of Contradictions. They will tell you that you dont understand or you dont have the spirit of their god. Same thing with Muslims.
The West and The Arabs dont like themselves so much. They are Very cautious of each other.
I think the hatred goes back to the 7th century. When the Roman Empire fell, it gave way to the rise of The Arab empire and Islam.
Egypt, Turkey and part of Syria are formally controlled by Christians before it was taken over By Islam..
Umayyads took over the South of France for a while before being pushed out.
When Christianity began, and slowly gained power and Constantine became the Emperor ,they were able to quench other Religions within the Empire. They dominated the empire without any Objection until Arabs showed up; since the show of Islam , both have been fighting each other .
A fight that didnt concern Africans for centuries until Arab and Europeans shared the Continent.
Majority of Africans now inherited their Hatred.
Take of for Instance, Majority of Africans Muslim will support Palestinians while Majority African Christian will support Israel.
Their Loyalty is based on their Religion sentiments and emotions.