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Abram Chronicles: Jail time

1/9/2017

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Just told my son to get dressed, he said he didn't want to.

I told him he doesn't get to tell me what he does and doesn't want to do.


He told me he wants me to go to jail.

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It won't hurt the 'righteous' to love

1/9/2017

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Dear fellow Believer: Stop accusing other Christians of abandoning truth just because you disagree on a single topic. It's so condescending. - @brandonhatmaker

This is the main reason I've been fighting for the other side. How dare you question a person's faith, relationship with God, ability to hear from him or understand, or make sweeping assumptions that they are being directed by the devil, confused by him, or anything else, just because of YOUR understanding/misunderstanding of the Bible or Christianity!

People get on their superior Christian high horse and then try to shut down any conversation that questions them, in the name of "God is not the author of confusion." Maybe it is you who are confused... Maybe it is not. However, YOU are not God, so don't put him in your box. His ways have always been higher than ours... So to think you have him all figured out is PEAK human narcissism. We all do it, I'm just learning to admit it.

You know what I stand on? The word of God. Yet, I somehow get different interpretations from the scriptures than other Christians. Kind of how we got so many denominations, kind of how we can hear 15 totally different sermons on one scripture.

Fact is, most people interpretations of biblical text is based on current culture, nationalism, generational storytelling, heirarchy, personal agendas, etc...

The thing that bothers me about the religious, and especially about the black church that I know and grew up in, is that if anyone disagrees, if anyone has a different interpretation on a text that is highly subjective (if you want to be real), then they aren't as "saved" or this is the "end times" or whatever else they want to say to set themselves apart and seem "more holy."

Bottomline, no one has it right, and you won't get it right everytime. But, it won't hurt your righteous a** to love somebody, that can never be wrong.


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The new pushback

1/3/2017

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The thing I LOVE about social media, the conversations we used to have in barbershops, and around coffee tables, that would otherwise fall on deaf ears... Are now being heard loud and clear.

We are writing our own narratives, we are directing and impacting the media in ways that would have been ignored even 5 years ago. We are leveraging what little power we have to say that we will not continue to be marginalized and misrepresented.

​There is a LONG way to go, but people of color are starting to have a VOICE, that reaches beyond a whisper.
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