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I often am confronted with writings, articles,
responses and so on, containing the words
"positive" and "negative". No,
I'm not an avid reader of electricity manuals. And
I'm not involved in photography either.
We're speaking about material related to my
Christian faith and spirituality. Religion, if you
will or must. "Positive" and
"Negative" have become code-words in
what is generally known as
"Christianity", and especially inside
the circles of western evangelical Christianity.
I often speak out against the so-called
"Christian Industry", and especially
it's "Reggae" branch. The Christian
faith has become a product and the faithful turned
into merchandize. Sure, all very negative
stuff.
As acknowledged by the Industrialists and their
minions in whom I am sometimes having a discussion
or confrontation with, that is. They will agree
with me that my speaking out is very negative
indeed.
But that's where the agreement stops. For many
seem to think that "positive" and
"negative" are standards according to
which we must conclude our statements and beliefs
and expressions. We must be "positive",
"stricktly positive" as one organization
advertises their products, eer, message...
Some might think in their ignorance, that
"positive" and "negative" are
just other words to express "good" and
"evil", or "right" and
"wrong".
But is that really so?
According to the Christian Industrialists and
their minions, speaking out against the
merchandizing of the Christian faith, even
speaking out against the false teachings that that
they preach to an often ignorant
"public" or flock, is
"negative".
But is it wrong? Is it evil?
Throughout the entire scripture, you will not
find the words "positive" and
"negative". But you will find a lot of
positivity and a lot of negativity.
You could say, that "positive" is
everything that can be agreed with, anything that
can be embraced, and "negative" is
everything you should not embrace, you should deny
it and disagree with it.
But you cannot say, that not embracing a
certain philosophy, or being in disagreement with
the theological statements of certain
self-proclaimed "preachers" and
"teachers" and "pastors", in
short: being negative, is therefore wrong.
The Most High Himself told us to have
discernment. He Himself is negative a lot of
times. But is Jah "evil" or
"wrong"? I would not even dare thinking
such a thing.
So we can simply conclude, that being negative
does not mean being wrong or evil.
But it's very difficult to be negative in a
dictatorship of alleged "positivity".
The word is a keyword for a lot if not most people
who profess themselves to be
"Christian". Being brainwashed into
somehow equating "good" and
"right" with "positive", they
have been conditioned to see
"negativity" as "wrong" or
even "evil".
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