My brother, Emmanuel shared this with me:

If you’re not open to a christian perspective, stop reading. But I suggest you don’t….I think its deeper then everything I’ve read so far. There is no way to justify sexual freedom for any person. Black or white, or in my case hispanic. This shouldn’t make anybody feel guilty because everyone even christians struggle with sexual purity. But through the grace of God, every person who commits their heart, mind, and soul…Well, it is up to the individual to do the hardest thing, to deny themselves the instant grafication, which in turn denies them access to thier trueself. In doing this they uncover more of their heart that can then be given over to the ‘Man’… and that is Jesus Christ. Who died for you to be free. If you rely on Him in the MIDST of your discipline/suffering he will produce a character within any individual that is unwavering, and undeniably stable, in the face of whites, blacks, hispanics, whatever…

I’m open…hit me back.

Well this is where I am with it, and please don’t take this personally…

Emmanuel, I don’t believe that Jesus died for me to be free because I don’t believe that Jesus existed.  His, is one good story that’s been told, but there are many others that are for more true and accurate but suppressed.  And for good reason.

There’s a video called “Zeitgeist” that to my mind proves that Jesus didn’t exist; that Christianity is an ideological construct designed to control and rule, designed to snatch the very freedom you were just speaking of from the human beings you claim need it to be free.  The last thing we need is an enslaver in liberator’s clothing.

Christianity is not in the least bit liberatory.  Making people adhere to a doctrine “or else” you gonna burn in hell?!  That is not a freeing doctrine, but an enslaving one.  To point a gun at someone’s head to get them to believe, get them to adhere to some doctrine let’s you know that its a bankrupt doctrine, not worthy of being believed in the first place.

Please forgive me, sister, for using this comment as a post without prior permission (I’ma email you right now though)… I needed to see your words on sexuality (versus porn)…you peeled another layer of the onion which I think needs to be seriously pondered:

I can’t start by focusing in so narrowly on porn.

On good, happy, comfy, grounded days where I feel whole, I incorporate pornographer…the written, queer kind, into my self definition.

From this place, I respectfully submit that I think there are a few unspoken questions contained herein.

What excites us and why?
How were Black people constructed as deviant?
How do we experience and express healthy sexualities away from the scourge of white domination?
What does healthy sexuality look like?
What were we taught about the erotic, about sexual orientation about our bodies by our families?
How were they taught?
How far back do we have to go asking who was taught what before we get back to slave times?
How can we incorporate the idea of emancipatory sexuality into our ideas about black liberation?
What good would this do?
Would we be making a different kind of revolution, a more whole revolution if we did?
How would our children grown to adulthood not shackled by sexual dysfunction and fear of the erotic, feel about the work we could do in freedom time?

Oh…
And hey! This is my second time popping by and I couldn’t resist jumping in.

darkdaughta

“To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”

Lao-Tzu