Not African Not West Indian Not American

 You are not an African. You were before there was an Africa.
Christopher Columbus is not our origin, so he can't call me a West Indian. 

Neither is Africanus our origin.
And you're all arguing and fighting with each other over a term that does not apply to you.
They named this country after Amerigo Vespucci, one of the grafted members of a grafted people.
That a Johnny-come-lately is on our earth. 

Now you're going to call yourself an American and an African.
Both of them named by Caucasian people.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said, what is the square mileage of the earth?
How much is the land and how much is the water?The earth is 196,940,000 sqmiles.
And the land is 57,255,000 square miles.
And the water is 139,685,000 square miles.
Don't tell me about Africa is my home.
No, the earth is my home.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.
And we are the Lord's that the fullness of the earth belongs to.
So don't you narrow yourself again after today.  

Louis Farrakhan speaks 

Bassirou Diomaye Faye remiscent of Blaise Compaoré and other enemies in our historical memories

This Bambara has absolutely  no confidence in Bassirou Diomaye Faye.
99 days in office Bassirou Diomaye Faye demonstrated  he is a neo-colonialists puppet 
Faye is  Sonko -  Sonko is  Faye – is a campaign slogan – with absolutely no change from the Macky Sall anti-Africans policy. 
Has Ousmane Sonko lost creditability?
The people of Senegal needs to be freed. 
The people of Senegal needs to benefit from the resources of the geography.  . 
Bassirou Diomaye Faye, must be removed, immediately
The observation was made  at 10:53.18 AM on June 20, 2024

“History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day.”  - Dr. John Henrik Clarke
What lessons Senegalese and indeed the African Diaspora must draw from the intertwined relationship of Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré respecting Ousmane Sonko and Bassirou Diomaye Faye?
Thereby prevent the recurrence of murder of the champion of the people in Senegal in 2026 going forward as occurred in the aftermath of the murder of  Thomas Sankara on October 15, 1987.
This Bambara charge the Senegalese with protecting the life and welfare of  Ousmane Sonko.
Bassirou Diomaye Faye choose to fire Sonko
How does Bassirou Diomaye Faye intend to extinguish the  fire?
More than 600 U.S. troops have arrived in Senegal as part of African Lion 26, the U.S. Africa Command's largest annual joint exercise on the continent. The deployed personnel consist of medical professionals, naval forces, and military units from the U.S., Senegal, Italy, Austria, and over 40 other allied nations
Is that targeting and cover for the murder of Sancho and his reliable colleagues? 
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is cooperating with Western Europe genocidal maniacs and
 thieves of Africans’ resources
Senegalese people must impeach and remove Bassirou Diomaye Faye from office now or face worse crisis
Bassirou Diomaye Faye is a substitute
Bassirou Diomaye Faye became president  on the coat tails of the charismatic freedom fighter Ousmane Sonko  
Bassirou Diomaye Faye does not have political clout 
Bassirou Diomaye Faye does not have popular support
This Bambara charges the Senegalese must remove Bassirou Diomaye Faye from office, immediately. 
What options are open to Bassirou Diomaye Faye to continue occupying the highest office in Senegal?
Right hand men are known to murder the popular iconic personalities
JFK, Malcolm X, MLK, Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba, Fred Rywigema
Antonio Maceo
For years, Ousmane Sonko built his political identity around resistance to foreign influence, criticism of Western dominance in Africa, opposition to neocolonial economic structures, and calls for greater Senegalese sovereignty over natural resources, finance, and governance.
Many young Africans across the continent saw him not just as a politician, but as one of the strongest modern voices, challenging the old Francophone power structure in West Africa.
Long Live Amari Sonko


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What is your Phillips relationship to the Sancho; Ivy Irene Phillips?

This researcher needs to be enlightened.

 Please link this Sancho to your Phillips family historians – soonest.

1. Are you aware of Phillips, descendants of Sancho? 
2. Who do you recognize mentioned herein?
3. What is your Phillips relationship to Ivy Irene Phillips (1892–1983), spouse of Thomas Edward Hubbard II (1891–1964)?
   

Essence Shannon-Phillips
Eon Phillips
Joann Phillips
Sabrina Phillips
Angela Phillips
Shakur Phillips
Patrick Phillips
Stacy Phillips
Monteith Phillips
Tonya Phillips
Alicia Phillips
Rico Phillips
Daija Duke Phillips


Henry Phillips, Chemists and Druggists, May 2, 1900
Edwin Adolphus Phillips, Elizabeth Amelia Phillips, born Linkton .of Water Street, Georgetown, October 9, 1891 - August 23, 1902 Linton
Isaac Newton Phillips, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, October 13, 1891 
Alfred Phillips, Georgetown, October 1, 1891
Edward Gladstone Phillips, Georgetown, October 10, 1891
William Edward Phillips, Georgetown, October 13, 1891
James Andrew Phillips, Georgetown, October 14, 1891
Alfred Phillips, Edward Gladstone Phillips, James Andrew Phillips, Thomas Nathaniel Phillips, and Henry Wiltshire Phillips, clerks, Georgetown, October 15, 1902. 
Walter Phillips, Victoria, East Coast Demerara, October 18, 1902
W. T. Phillips, 118, Regent Street, Georgetown, October 18, 1902
Mary, Phillips, Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, October 18, 1902
Benjamin Phillips, Queenstown, Georgetown, October 18, 1902 
Troytan Phillips
H. W. Phillips, 43 Brickdam, Station Master, January 28, 1903
D. M. Phillips, E. C. Phillips, March 12, 1902
Herbert J. Phillips, 73,Church St.. Alberttown. 
Joseph Nathaniel Phillips, of Plantation Noitgedacht. December 1, 1917.
William John Phillips, December 1, 1917.
Alfred Tobias Phillips, of lot 1, Charles Street, in the city of Georgetown
Edgar Alexander Phillips, Georgetown, Book-keeper, Scotts, Ltd October 27, 1917
Alfred Tobias Phillips, Georgetown Clerk, Railway Company
Henry Brutus Phillips, Buxton, Carpenter 
Charles Thomas Phillips, Buxton, Blacksmith, Demerara Foundry 
Frederick Edward Phillips, Georgetown, Clerk, Garnett and Company Ltd
Edward Gladstone Phillips, Georgetown, clerk, E.B. & Co.
Ernest Ignatius Phillips, Georgetown, clerk, Santos, de Cairos: Co.
.Henry Thurbane Phillips, Mahaica, clerk. Colonial Bank
Herbert James Phillips, Uitvlugt, Planter
Isaac Newton Phillips, Buxton, Carpenter 
James Andrew Phillips, Georgetown, Manager, Cold Storage, Ice Depot October 27, 1917
 

(Ayisha Johnson, researcher) 

This Sancho loves to be enlightened, respecting the ancestral lineage of  Ivy Irene Phillips (1892–1983). He is in pursuit of common ancestors and common relatives among the kinship of Whitehead, Hubbard and Phillips. Perhaps, you can turn back the clock, recall when you were much younger and bonding with prior generations. 
What are the names of the rural communities, your ancestors stated, your relatives, resided therein?
Are you aware of the names of the immediate relatives of Theresa Griffin and Robert Augustus Whitehead,  Samuel Whitehead and Euphemia Whitehead, John Edward Hubbard, John Hubbard, Marie Fedora Hubbard-Zaphereoun, Bob Hubbard, Thomas Edward Hubbard II (1891–1964) and Ivy Irene Phillips (1892–1983)?
 An 87 years old Sancho female told this Sancho recently she recalls Hubbard and Phillips visiting her mother’s residence, and attending funerals of Sancho at Golden Grove. She recalls Enid Hubbard and Estelle Hubbard. Their mother was employed at Government House in Georgetown. She is not sure where Hubbard and Phillips resided. She supposed Hubbard and Phillips are our Sancho relatives. This Sancho suppose, Miss Sancho was referring to the period 1942 – 1956. 

Who do you recommend this Sancho consult for Whitehead, Hubbard and Phillips family history? 

Are you aware of Ayisha Johnson? She is a Whitehead family history researcher. 
M’Lilwana Osanku 

childrenofsancho@gmail.com

Jagan and Burnham were not threats to Corporate America

 This Mande's rational thoughts concluded eons ago. A number of the popular narratives exhibit numerous unanswered questions. He often wondered. What's Fidel Castro's role in the deaths of numerous associates of his? Jagan and Burnham were allowed to survive because the US Government determined they were not imminent threats to Corporate America. It is, obviously, quite that simple.

This Mande's lack concrete evidence proving Burnham and Jagan were removed. Thereby, Corporate America. can begin the process of thieving liquid gold found within the geography of Guyana. The main point is nationalists are removed for Corporate America to plunder the resources of melanin dominant humans. Europeans claim from the era of Philip and his son, Alexander of Macedonia to current times that thieving, lying and genocide is the Modus operandi of the Europeans

Thieves, liars and genocidal maniocs are what they are. Their historical literature condemns them.

Columbus is a discoverer. The evidences determined - that's a horrendous lie. Salvador Fernandes Zarco, Cristóvão Colombo, Cristobãl Colon and Christopher Columbus are likely names of the same human experience. 

CIA, conquistadors, conquerors, colonizers, slave-owning, bankers, politicians, corporations are all International thieves. Those constructs are simply leaves, stems and branches of the same tree. Criminals make laws to control the masses to enrich themselves. The global super predators are in the business of thieving to this very minute. it's, frankly, quite that simple.

That's what this incarnation has taught this Mandinka, respecting the European ruling classes under the influence of the Greco-Roman sphere

Question of Loyalty

 Question of Loyalty

March 10, 2023

This is  utter nonsense.  What lessons must be drawn from this travesty? This POW is extremely angry at Hilbert Foster, Berbice Cricket Board, and Shimron Hetmyer for allowing Berbice to be embarrassed. Guyana Cricket Board and Georgetown Cricket Club before that institution -  has always violated Berbice cricket. 

Hetmyer, Motie, Shepherd, Permaul, Kevin Sinclair, Bramble, Anderson, Smith, Joseph, Foo and Pestano -  are eleven of the top players missing from the Berbice team. The  BCB ought to demand postponement of the competition.  Even if Adrian Hetmyer and Seon  Hetmyer, son and father were included in the team at Enmore  - this POW would not be forgiving of Hilbert Foster and BCB in March  2023.  Hetmyer  should have joined his older sibling at Enmore. Hetmyer should have made a clear statement to Sarwan and GCB. He is not interested in their rhetoric. They did not fight Adams. Harper, Simmons, and Pollard on his behalf. He has missed 24 consecutive test matches. The six affiliates never cared about Hetmyer. The six affiliates never cared about the best talent must be in every West Indies team. Sarwan is too hypercritical. He has negative experiences with administrators. Now he is doing the same asininity. 

Hetmyer should have shown loyalty to Berbice. What’s the boundary of Hetmyer’s loyalty? Is it Cumberland? Is it Canje? Is it only his nuclear family?  Hetmyer is not bedridden. It’s only four days. Hetmyer alone is good enough to defeat this under-manned Essequebo team.
This POW has had enough with this nonsense of testosterone deficiency of the modern administration and players. This POW expects Essequebo will defeat both Berbice and Demerara at full strength. He did not expect to be breathing when any Essequebo team will beat a Berbice team of cricketers nineteen years and older.  This nonsense at Enmore is too ridiculous to accept as rational. How, when and why, Berbice administrators would permit such foolishness? It is time to sweep them all out of BCB. Most disgusting lot.

Ms LATCHMIE BUDHAR

M'lilwana Osanku <childrenofsancho@ yahoo.com> wrote:
At first, I really did not read this bit of utter rubbish – before I replied as I did previously. Therefore I did not really realize how horrible it really is. Your thoughts are as heinous as the acts of criminals who victimize and murder innocent people especially young children and females. Your expressions could only originate from a racism mindset.
 However, I am extremely happy you recognized I am behind a rock. It is obvious I stand upon and behind a rock named Sancho. If you had any sense of the history of Africans in Guyana you would have an appreciation for the moral fiber of the kinship of Sancho. Apparently you do not – therefore allow me to lecture you- they obviously did not teach real social history in the schools of Guyana. 
Bentick Sancho and Tuckness Sancho, two brothers were the leading shareholders of Golden Grove on the East Coast of Demerara in January to may 1848. During the riots of February 18, 1856 known as the Angel Gabriel riots Bentick Sancho my rock, my messiah, and my representative did exactly what I would have done. Bentick Sancho stood firmly against the destruction of property and loss of life of Portuguese between Enmore and Belfield on the East Sea Coast of the county of Demerara in the colony of British Guiana. You can look it up it is stated clearly in the parliamentary papers respecting the riots of 1856 in British Guiana.
Before I continue let me remind you there are two folk songs about the prowess of males of the kinship of Sancho. They did not discriminate. There are today members of the kinship of Sancho who are surname and are members of the kinship of Pancham, Lutchman, Kissoon, Ramator, Mootoo, Fernandez and Rodrigues and among others. Sancho is a microcosm of the Guyanese society. It consists of all the ethnic groups found in Guyana. 
If you dare to look in the Official Gazette of British Guiana between 1848 and 1966 you will note numerous entries of Sancho. Now if you dared to look at education notices between 1928 and 1934 you would find entries listing my primary rock, Muriel Sancho. My representative was a member of the third batch of teachers trained at teachers’ training college during 1932-1934. Muriel Sancho spent 27 years of her life educating children most East Indian in Primary Schools at Port Mourant, Rose Hall in Canje, Blairmont, Cumberland, and 68 village on the Corentyne Coast. It is my intention to be buried with my rock. Another point my grand mother was known as Coolie Rachel. Her mother, my great grandmother was known as Coolie Campbell. I am sure the ancestors including mother of Coolie Campbell came from Lookna. Now I have not even told you about two other rocks named Sancho, Lambert Tuckness Sancho and Alexander Sancho. I have not pointed out such rocks as James Campbell of Unity-Lancaster who at some period in the nineteenth century owned the land upon which stands the Leprosy Asylum built by Sharples in 1859. I am trying to find the records of the transaction of the land when it was acquired by the government of British Guiana and transformed into a settlement for East Indians. It is said in my family history James Campbell owned most of the land. I have not said a word about that wonderful kinship of Young of Buxton and Friendship. If you did not know now you know – at least you ought to now be aware you should inquire of the ancestry of people before you try to belittle their integrity. It does not look and say much for your thought process. You do not have to agree with what I have stated but if you care to respond I would like to read clear and logical thoughts being expressed.
Now again I am hoping bridges are not burnt ever so badly that communications are ceased. But however, that’s your prerogative. 
I must admit I detest it whenever people get upset over politicians and religious people who for all intents and purposes does not care whether you suffer or live a relatively struggle free life. The majority of the practitioners of the two social sciences care about are themselves. It is high time people realize that fact. Why this exchange of words and or thoughts if the situation was under control by those who were elected to administrate the nation then there would be no reason to wail in any community in Guyana. How about that? Every time you look at images of the foreign embassies they are overflowing with Guyanese trying to escape the country. Well! Who is ruling the nation? I believe it is drug dealers masquerading as politicians or both supplementing each other conning the people of Guyana. I am sure it is corruption and money launders running the asylum.
Ms LATCHMIE BUDHAR <latchmie@yahoo. com wrote: 
Osanku,

1. Did you just discover there issues or you are the one here clinging to straws?
2. HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SHOULDER THIS BURDEN?
3. Are you implying that the Government sent these men to slaughter these people?
4. Are you related to Green?
5. Are you from Buxton?
6. Are you most of all STUPID?
7. And not forgetting IGNORANT?
8. Are you Guyanese?

NON OF THE ABOVE?                                                                                                                 

 Reading what you wrote is disgusting and FYI I was wondering since this incident you did not rise until now to be the site "bully" Go back behind the rock you crawled out from.

--- M'lilwana Osanku <childrenofsancho@ yahoo.com> wrote:

Satish,

 I believe you are clutching at straws. You are beating the proverbial dead horse. If you look at the total messages posted at the Buxton-Friendship forum you would realize not much activity and or participation takes places there. I am positive most of the postings are done by me. The owner of the group is like myself; a son of a career school teacher. However, it seems he has but little time and energy to galvanize the forum. He approves the messages. I do not believe random posting is allowed; for many of the messages I sent were not posted. The forum information tells the real story.

It has 30 email addresses. It was founded on Aug 31,

2002. However, if you check the number and the content of the messages you will then get the

total picture. At least you ought to have some idea

  concerning what is really going on there.

  Another point to ponder a huge number of the

  people of Buxton and friendship were formerly

  residents of Lusignan and other neighboring

  communities. In fact one of the most worthy

 figures

  in the political history of British Guiana in the

  last half of the twentieth century was birthed at

  Plantation Lusignan. He was considered a protégée

 of

  Dr. Cheddi Jagan. He was very instrumental in the

  election of Dr. Cheddi Jagan to the Legislative

  Council in November 1947 and the formation of the

  People’s Progressive Party.

  I am simply asking you not to assume what is

  simply not there. If you attempt such you would be

  doing yourself a great disservice.

 

 

  Satish <bobstores@hotmail. com wrote:

  Description: Buxton Friendship Group

  Dedicated to the establishment of Educational and

  Business projects

  and other information which might be of interest

 to members in the Buxton and Friendship villages, located on the  East Coast of Demerara in Guyana, South America. .

http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/BuxtonFrie ndship/

Activity within the last 7 days: 1 New Message

 ____________ _________ _________ _________ Skeldon Upper Corentyne Group

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CONCLUSION: Someone said that we Indians are all talks.

We can see this is not the case with the Buxtonion folk.

Immaterial of what those `politically correct' contributors would say; you draw your own conclusions about the grieving in

freedom comes from daring to think for ourselves.

Imagine growing up with the certainty that there is a perfect God, omnipotent, omniscient and absolutely just.
Every prayer, every ritual, every whispered hope rested on the belief that an eternal being guided the universe with flawless wisdom.
But now pause for a moment and imagine the shock of discovering that the very sacred texts which were supposed to confirm this perfection are instead overflowing with contradictions,
harsh commands and emotions that seem anything but divine, rage, regret, jealousy, even favoritism.
Suddenly the foundation of faith begins to tremble.
The image of a flawless God shatters into fragments that look alarmingly human.
And here is the unsettling truth.
Centuries before us a man dared to confront this illusion.
His name was Baruch Spinoza, one of the boldest philosophers in history.
With only the sharp edge of reason and an unwavering devotion to truth, Spinoza dismantled the traditional

image of God exposing its fragile human construction.
In this story, we will walk through his reasoning.
We will revisit three specific verses of the Bible, three verses that should affirm God's divinity, but instead reveal him as an invention shaped by human fear politics and desire for control.
Stay with me until the end because this journey may change the way you look at faith itself.
It may alter how you understand religion, how you perceive your own freedom, and how you relate to the infinite.
And if at some point in your life you have ever questioned what was taught to you in the name of God, then perhaps this is the moment to finally open your eyes.
Before we confront those verses, we must first meet the man who dared to read them with eyes unclouded by fear.
Baruch Spinoza, a young philosopher in 17th century Amsterdam, was cast out of his Jewish community with a curse so severe that even his name was forbidden to be spoken aloud.
His crime was not violence nor betrayal, but thought thought so radical that it threatened to unravel centuries of unquestioned tradition.
Spinoza never denied the existence of God, but he shattered the familiar image.
To him, God was not a bearded patriarch seated on a throne of clouds issuing orders and punishments.
God was far greater, far more profound.
God was the totality of existence itself, the order that permeates the universe, the infinite substance in which all things live and move.
In Spinoza's eyes, to know nature was to know God, to seek truth through reason was to approach the divine.
This vision was revolutionary because it stripped away the authority of priests and prophets.
If God is not a person, but the essence of reality, then the Bible cannot be treated as a flawless decree.
It must be read like any other book shaped by its authors, influenced by history, filled with contradictions, errors, and human fears.
And with this perspective, Spinoza dared to ask questions most people still fear to raise.
It is through this lens that we now turn to the Bible not as sacred law, but as a human text.
And from within its pages, we find the first fracture that shakes the image of a perfect God.
The first crack appears in the book of Genesis, chapter 6, verse 6.
There it is written,
And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.
Stop for a moment and let those words settle.
A God who regrets, a God who feels sorrow, a God who suffers.
Does this sound like the voice of an all-knowing, all-powerful being, or like the confession of a human mind overwhelmed by disappointment?
For Spinoza, this verse was a devastating blow against the traditional image of God.
If God is perfect, he cannot change his mind, for perfection has no room for error.
Regret implies that something unforeseen has happened, that a mistake was made, that a choice was wrong.
But what kind of omniscient God fails to foresee the outcome of his own creation?
The logic collapses.
The supposed divinity becomes a mirror reflecting human emotions, anger, regret, disillusionment.
God argued that such verses reveal the Bible's human fingerprints.
These were not the words of an infinite intelligence but of authors who projected their own fears, frustrations, and political needs into the figure of God.
In ancient times, leaders and storytellers used this image of a regretful deity to explain suffering to justify punishment and to enforce moral order.
God was made emotional so that his authority could be felt as both intimate and terrifying.
Behind the divine mask, we find the face of humanity.
Wars were sanctified laws legitimized entire societies bound together through the image of a God who could feel pain, fury, or sorrow.
Religion in this light was less about truth and more about power, a power made unquestionable by fear.
And it all begins here in a single verse that strips God of perfection and clothes him in the fragile garments of human doubt.
If a God can regret, then what does that mean for the entire structure of faith built upon his perfection?
Genesis 6-6 does not merely describe a divine emotion.
It undermines the very idea of an infallible being.
A God who suffers sorrow is a God who falters, and a God who falters is no longer a steady foundation for eternal law.
For Spinoza, this realization was not just a philosophical puzzle, but a revelation that
religion itself was constructed on unstable ground.
The image of a God who repents and feels grief became in the hands of religious leaders a weapon
of control.
If the Almighty could change his mind, then humanity must tread carefully obeying laws,
not out of love, but out of fear, that divine anger might strike without warning.
Faith under this interpretation was transformed into submission.
The Bible ceased to be a guide toward understanding and instead became a manual for discipline,
obedience, and punishment.
But Spinoza refused to accept this distorted vision.
For him, true divinity was not a moody ruler who vacillated between affection and rage, but the eternal unchanging fabric of reality itself.
His God did not punish, did not repent, did not bleed human emotions into the cosmos.
Instead, his God was the order of nature accessible to anyone willing to think clearly, to study, to reflect.
And here lies the first great confrontation.
If the God of Genesis regrets, then he cannot be perfect.
If he cannot be perfect, then his laws lose their sacred legitimacy.
And if his laws are no longer sacred, the very authority of religion trembles.
This was Spinoza's first strike, and it was only the beginning.
For if one verse can crack the illusion, what will happen when the next exposes an even deeper
contradiction?
The second fracture emerges in the book of Exodus, chapter 32, verse 14.
It reads, And the Lord relented from the disaster which he said he would bring upon his people.
Once again, the picture is unsettling.
The same God who only moments earlier threatened to destroy his own chosen people for worshipping for a golden calf now suddenly changes his mind.
A divine about-face, an omnipotent being persuaded to let go of wrath.
For Spinoza, this verse was another devastating blow.
If God can be swayed, then his will is neither eternal nor absolute.
It reveals a portrait of a deity, not unlike a temperamental father prone to fury, quick
to punish, but capable of softening when his children plead.
But what kind of perfection depends on persuasion?
What kind of omniscience requires negotiation?
Spinoza saw through this portrayal, recognizing it as a literary device created by human authors
to make God appear closer, more relatable, even manipulable.
A God who can change his mind becomes a God who can be bargained with, and this opened
the door for priests, prophets, and leaders to declare themselves the essential mediators
of divine mercy.
Only they, it was claimed, could intercede on behalf of the people.
Only through them could God's wrath be tempered, and thus obedience was secured not by understanding,
but by fear.
This verse, like the first, exposes a deeper truth.
The biblical God is shaped to reflect human power structures.
His anger mirrors the authority of rulers.
His relenting mirrors the bargains of politics.
Far from being eternal, his will bends like that of men.
For Spinoza, such a God was not divine at all, but an invention designed to enforce submission.
And yet this realization raised an even darker question.
If God can change his mind when angry, could he not also demand atrocities when vengeful?
The next verse will not only answer this question, it will push it to its most terrifying extreme.
The story of Exodus does more than reveal a God who shifts his will.
It uncovers the very machinery of religious power.
Imagine a deity who can be enraged, persuaded, or pacified.
Such a God becomes a perfect tool in the hands of institutions.
Leaders step forward as the indispensable interpreters, the only ones who can soothe divine
anger or secure divine favor.
And through this claim, obedience is no longer optional, it becomes sacred duty.
Spinoza understood the danger of this construction.
When fear takes the place of understanding, submission becomes automatic.
Disobedience is no longer simply a difference of opinion.
It transforms into sin.
Doubt becomes guilt.
And thought becomes heresy.
With one stroke, religion converts natural human questioning into a moral crime.
The chains tighten not of iron, but of the mind.
This is why Spinoza insisted that God could not be a person with moods, whims, or shifting
desires.
To assign such traits to divinity was to degrade it to make the infinite small to transform
the eternal into a mirror of human rulers.
He believed that truth must be consistent, rational, unchanging like the laws of nature themselves.
Anything else he warned is not divine revelation but human projection.
And so from Genesis to Exodus the cracks deepen.
A God who regrets a God who changes his mind.
These are not the attributes of perfection, but the fingerprints of human authors.
And if these verses already unsettle the foundations of faith, the third will shatter them entirely.
For in it, God is not just emotional or uncertain.
He becomes the commander of unthinkable violence.
The third and most terrifying fracture is found in the book of Deuteronomy.
Here the text does not speak of regret or persuasion, but of extermination.
The verse commands,
But of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.
You shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, but you shall utterly destroy them.
Entire peoples, men, women, children, the elderly condemned not by human kings but by the supposed
will of God himself.
Spinoza saw in this passage the most damning evidence that the God of the Bible was not
divine perfection but a projection of human brutality.
A truly infinite and just being could never demand genocide, could never choose favorites
among nations, could never call for rivers of blood to sanctify his glory.
Such commands, Spinoza argued, reveal not the voice of heaven, but the ambitions of rulers
who cloaked their wars in divine authority.
History echoes with the consequences of verses like this.
Crusades waged with the cry of God wills it.
Colonizers claiming lands as divine inheritance.
It was justified as sacred duty.
Each time the Bible was opened, the words of extermination read aloud and blood was spilled
in the name of the Almighty.
But behind the horror stood men, kings, priests, generals using the mask of God to crown their
own ambitions.
This was the heart of Spinoza's critique.
If God is truly infinite, then he cannot hate.
If he is truly perfect, he cannot demand slaughter.
The moment a scripture orders mass destruction, it ceases to speak of God and begins to reveal
the flaws of its authors.
In Deuteronomy the mask slips entirely.
What we see is not divinity but tyranny, not eternal justice but the will of men who longed
for conquest and clothed their violence in sacred words.
With Deuteronomy's command to annihilate entire peoples, the mask of divinity is stripped away
and the political machinery behind the sacred text comes into view.
Spinoza understood that these were not divine decrees but strategies of power.
Religion, he argued, was never only about belief.
It was about governance, obedience, and control.
By presenting the will of kings as the will of God authority became unassailable.
To question a ruler was to defy heaven.
To resist injustice was to commit sin.
This fusion of politics and faith forged a system where obedience was enforced not merely
by soldiers but by conscience.
People learned to police themselves to feel guilt for rebellion to see doubt as betrayal.
In this way, sacred texts became instruments of domination, legitimizing wars of conquest,
sustaining social hierarchies, and silencing dissent.
When scripture declared genocide as holy oppression ceased to be political, it became sanctified,
untouchable, eternal.
For Spinoza, the danger of this construction was immense.
A God who demands bloodshed is not a God of truth but a tool of rulers who seek absolute
control.
And when fear becomes the foundation of faith, freedom withers.
The faithful trapped by the weight of divine commands no longer act from reason but from
terror.
They become subjects not of God but of those who claim to speak for Him.
It was here that Spinoza's vision cut through like a blade.
What contradicts reason, he declared, cannot come from God.
Violence, hatred, and arbitrary cruelty are marks of human invention not of divine necessity.
True divinity, if it exists, cannot be bound to the passions of men or the ambitions of
empires.
And so by exposing the political face of religion, Spinoza opened the door to a new understanding
of both freedom and faith.
After tearing away the veil of fear and political manipulation, Spinoza did not leave behind a
void.
Instead, he offered an alternative vision of God and spirituality, one that was as liberating
as it was revolutionary.
For him, God was not a ruler demanding obedience nor a jealous sovereign counting sins and punishments.
God was the totality of existence, the infinite substance that sustains every star, every tree,
every breath of air.
To encounter God was not to kneel before a throne but to open one's eyes to the order
of nature, to the logic and harmony woven into reality itself.
In this view, sacred rituals and mediators became unnecessary.
Temples, sacrifices, and endless rules were not bridges to God but barriers created by men.
The divine did not require offerings or constant praise.
It asked only for understanding.
To know the laws of nature, to study with clarity, to live with reason, this was the true worship.
And in this worship there was no fear, no guilt, no submission, only freedom.
Spinoza's God did not change his mind, did not rage, did not demand blood.
His God was eternal coherence, the structure of reality itself, indifferent to human whims,yet accessible to human reason.
Such a vision was dangerous precisely because it removed the power of priests and institutions.
If God is everywhere in everything, then no one holds exclusive access to him.
No one can demand obedience in his name.
This was not nihilism nor the destruction of faith.
It was faith purified faith without superstition, without chains, without political manipulation.
A faith rooted in knowledge, in the beauty of the world, in the understanding that by comprehending the universe we come closer to the divine.
And yet Spinoza also knew that such an idea would provoke fear for to accept it meant dismantling centuries of religious authority.
It meant facing the truth that God did not need our obedience, only our clarity.
But if Spinoza's God was so liberating, why did humanity cling so desperately to the old image of a wrathful emotional deity?
The answer Spinoza believed lay in our deepest weakness fear.
Human beings fear uncertainty more than they desire truth.
It is easier to obey than to think, easier to submit than to confront the vast unknown.
Religion with its threats of punishment and promises of reward became a shelter for that fear.
It offered certainty even if false, comfort even if chained.
Institutions understood this all too well.
By transforming doubt into guilt and rebellion into sin, they converted insecurity into obedience.
A believer afraid of divine wrath polices himself more strictly than any ruler could.
The system does not need constant armies.
It thrives on internalized fear.
That is why for centuries people defended doctrines that enslaved them because to abandon them felt like leaping into darkness.
Spinoza's message therefore was more than philosophical.
It was existentially terrifying.
He asked people to stand without the crutches of dogma to walk into the world guided only by reason and understanding.
True freedom, he argued, was not given by any institution.
It was our natural condition.
But to claim it required courage, the courage to live without fear.
This is why so many considered him dangerous.
To reject a God who punishes and rewards is to dismantle the power structures built upon him.
To embrace freedom is to strip away the authority of priests, kings, and institutions that thrive on obedience.
And yet for Spinoza, this was the only path worthy of the divine.
For what kind of God would desire slaves when he could instead invite us to know and to love the truth?
From these revelations emerged one of the most daring proposals of Spinoza's philosophy,
that the true path to salvation is not blind obedience, but understanding.
He urged humanity to replace superstition with knowledge, submission with freedom, guilt with clarity.
In a world ruled by dogmas that demanded loyalty above thought, this was nothing short of revolutionary.
Spinoza declared that no institution, no sacred text, and no priestly authority holds the monopoly
on truth.
Freedom is not something granted by churches or rulers.
It is inherent to human nature.
We are born with the capacity to think, to reason, to understand.
And in that very capacity lies our most direct connection to the divine.
To use our minds is not to stray from God, it is to approach Him.
The true danger Spinoza warned is not heresy, but ignorance.
A people who think for themselves cannot be enslaved.
But a people who live in fear, who see rebellion as sin and doubt as betrayal, will remain captives forever.
That is why his philosophy was feared by religious authorities.
He offered not only critique, but liberation.
He handed individuals the key to their own freedom, a freedom so profound that no institution could contain it.
And perhaps the most radical idea of all, you do not need permission to be free.
No bishop, no rabbi, no cleric can grant or deny your connection to the divine.
That power has always belonged to you, and to claim it is to step into the very heart of what Spinoza called, God the infinite, rational, and eternal order of existence itself.
What Spinoza destroyed was never spirituality itself, but its captivity under fear and power.
By dissecting the verses of Genesis, Exodus, and Deuteronomy, he revealed that the biblical image of God, repentant, temperamental, and even genocidal, was not a reflection of eternity,but of humanity's own flaws and ambitions.
What he offered in return was not emptiness, but a richer faith, a God identical with nature,
unchanging, infinite beyond anger or favoritism, accessible through knowledge and reason.
This vision remains as dangerous today as it was in the 17th century.
For if God requires no intermediaries, then institutions lose their authority.
If divinity is found in reason, and the natural order, then sacred texts lose their monopoly over truth.
And if freedom comes from understanding, then no power on earth can demand your obedience in God's name.
That is why Spinoza was exiled, cursed, and branded a heretic.
And yet centuries later his words still speak with clarity, challenging us to choose between fear and freedom between superstition and understanding.
So I ask you now, has religion brought you closer to God, or has it taken you further from your own ability to think freely?
Your answer matters, because here we are not searching for a new faith, but for a new kind of freedom, the freedom that comes from daring to think for ourselves.
together we will keep dismantling the illusions that have bound humanity for centuries.
And most importantly, leave your honest thoughts in the comments below because your voice is part of this search.What is at stake here is not belief, it is liberation.