Ellen Brown
Well-Known Member
In 1962, I was working in the kitchen of a large Hospital and had some contact with a very grumpy Dishwasher guy. One day, he handed me a Red Book, saying it was a Bible, and that maybe it would straighten me out.
It did turn out to be a Bible of sorts, though at that time in my life I would not have known one from a BLT sandwich. I was an avid reader and the whole book didn't take me very long. Toward the end, in what may have been the Book of Revelations, I was astonished to find a passage that read, "And the Black Man shall be his henchman". "His" being satan.
I would not address religion seriously for another 10 or more years, and sometime after I looked for that passage and could not find it. Google does not reveal it, so I am not sure where to go in search of it. I don't really have a need to find it aside from simple curiosity. I do have some groups in mind and have some questionable references from Wiki.
I'd heard that a few groups have adjusted their public views on the matter over the years, though I do not think it likely that the private views have changed.
In Genesis 9 there is reference to "The Curse of Ham", though reading it, I doubt that this is the passage I am looking for. I find the passage that I am looking for to be uncivilized in a very offensive way.
For me it is obvious that the skin color variation is genetic, and driven by climate. I come from really racist, and ignorant folk who migrated across America from Jamestown to now be in Oklahoma and points west. I feel deep shame for some of the things I was taught.
It did turn out to be a Bible of sorts, though at that time in my life I would not have known one from a BLT sandwich. I was an avid reader and the whole book didn't take me very long. Toward the end, in what may have been the Book of Revelations, I was astonished to find a passage that read, "And the Black Man shall be his henchman". "His" being satan.
I would not address religion seriously for another 10 or more years, and sometime after I looked for that passage and could not find it. Google does not reveal it, so I am not sure where to go in search of it. I don't really have a need to find it aside from simple curiosity. I do have some groups in mind and have some questionable references from Wiki.
I'd heard that a few groups have adjusted their public views on the matter over the years, though I do not think it likely that the private views have changed.
In Genesis 9 there is reference to "The Curse of Ham", though reading it, I doubt that this is the passage I am looking for. I find the passage that I am looking for to be uncivilized in a very offensive way.
For me it is obvious that the skin color variation is genetic, and driven by climate. I come from really racist, and ignorant folk who migrated across America from Jamestown to now be in Oklahoma and points west. I feel deep shame for some of the things I was taught.
