Journaling the Diabolical 2: Delving Further
Why don’t we recognize the diabolical?
It’s Normal.
As I said: often we don’t recognize the diabolical because it’s our “normal”— from Shein to WholeFoods to WalMart to zoos to medical experiments on incarcerated the system of foster care. It constructs our reality here in the West in ways great and small. National Parks are diabolical. Public school’s physical architecture is diabolical. In the USA cultures who are at war “come together” in the “melting pot”, each choosing to justify the evils committed by the country they call home. Diabolical. Whites owe Black descendants of slavery reparations and an apology— yet they have billions for the building of cop cities, $100 million state of the art prisons, and world class bombs to genocide Palestinians. Diabolical. White folks get married on plantations while descendants of those enslaved on that same plantation are struggling to survive.
Depravity is built into this society as if a cultural expression, while vulgarity is celebrated as the same. It’s part of being here. Playing “the game” as a means of life and getting by means never holding evil accountable even when you’re seated at its boardroom table.
We live in a world where the wicked are rewarded; serial KILLERS get LIFE in prison and documentary features while victims get no closure and maybe a monetary settlement.
We’ve been taught to monetize the diabolical. We’ve been conditioned to celebrate it. On a personal level, many of us are in love with it: Sometimes the diabolical is the very thing you’ve attached to as your identity. The thing you value most but that’s actually a wound, a doorway, a hindrance to your moving forward.
Christianity.
Another major reason we cannot discern the diabolical? CHRISTIANITY. And while many of us are not christians, the principles, values and spirit of that genocidal brainwashing cult reigns this system. Under the name of christianity everything from slavery to genocide has been excused. Christian men have held offices and have committed adultery, signed dehumanizing laws, revoked treaties with indigenous tribes, served in prison for heinous economic crimes, pardoned corporations that have poisoned land and water, etc. And here are some fundamental beliefs from this religion that have conditioned many of us:
Diabolical Christian concepts/ spells/ curses.
Forgive— everyone, of anything. God is a god of restoration without judgment.
To remind is to recall sins and that is remembering what god himself forgot
bless your enemy
Pray for those who persecute you— but don’t pray too hard.
Wait out wrongdoing, don’t uprise. This is why most churches won’t touch the old testament without high censorship and supervised group reading.
“Love” keeps no record of wrongs
Be wearisome of revenge
Never praying against systems of oppression
Mingle with your enemy because we are “all one”
Dysfunction is protected so long as you are rich
There’s no talking about the things that keep people bound and arrested such as molestation, overwhelm, post traumatic slave syndrome, generational pain, etc
The ultimate DESIGN of christianity is the perpetuation of capitalism. So nothing else can matter except getting you high on jesus worship and being encouraged to go back to work and to not questioning things your pastor told you are in god’s hands, but are connected to puppet strings, loose threads that must be pulled to unravel evils, and spiritual dynamite.
These are examples of belief systems that have made us more comfortable with the devil’s presence as standard— that have caused us to create internal and external environments where diabolical ideas and beings can be safe to rewire our minds, and that have dimmed our understanding of how the devil manifests. One of the most diabolical elements of christianity is how it conditions us to be comfortable with injustice.
What does injustice look like?
One of Christianity’s main functions in capitalism and empire is the harboring of injustice, facilitating a mindless movement through time where bad things are “tests” and good things are “blessings”. Under it’s spell, parishioners feel “god’s love” and set aside their righteous rage against diabolical perpetrators to hold diabolical systems accountable with the memory that “ONE DAY” things will work out because it’s “in god’s hands”.
Feeding back into the earlier point, Christianity stomps out memory and indignation. It mandates hypocrisy and normalizes coexistence with diabolical people and anodyne responses to diabolical events and atrocities through “prayer”. Meanwhile behind the scenes the white leaders within Christianity have one agenda to uphold (white nationalism) and Black pawns in Christianity have another to serve and protect (Blacks as an underclass even when they’re upper class)— both following the ultimate agenda set out by the diabolical catholic church centuries ago. Christianity is a cult of control, amnesia and compliance. Through hypnotizing “worship”, love-bombing altar calls, and pastors who are bought and paid for, they deviate congregations’ wealth and focus from the heinousness of the world we are living in and towards the illusion of “salvation”. Christianity encourages the eschewing of causes to hold evil accountable and instead “forgive” and has persuaded myriad into the comfort of anticipating a heaven where colonized and colonizer live in harmony. Thus, reconciliation is also weaponized in Christianity, given that it’s always the abused and the violated who must perform acrobatics to prevent the abuser and violator from accountability and consequence for their wrongdoing. Thus past atrocities and the descendants of the perpetrators are protected in jesus’ name from their due confrontation and demand for reparation. Conveniently, “Vengeance belongs to God” when you are Black and indigenous but “the violent taketh by force” when it’s white nationalism.
This is why I separate Black and white christians: there are different expectations and outcomes for each, as cultivated by history. Culturally, Christianity is a european, genocidal, land-stealing, wealth-transferring religion that hates women and children. It despises indigeneity and mandates creation and enslavement of a lesser class. It has never deviated from this, only created variants and strains of itself that can be more palatable to BIPoCs through the ages. The strain that’s become the “Black church” though having a form of power and presence, still perpetuates elements of enslavement as was its original purpose on the plantation as designed by the enslaver. Black Christianity functions to keep an oppressed people in ignorance, submission, insanity (as defined by Dr. Amos Wilson) and compliance, demonizing cultural instincts in embrace of service of piety and diabolical entities. It thwarts indictment, encourages parishioners to wait for the sweet by and by instead of raging against systems, emphasize god’s love over His vengeance, celebrates integration with our enemy, dispatches Black children back to public school systems, and overall diverts the focus of Black people’s cultural zeal away from all things constructive to our spirits.
Injustice as Taught by Christianity
“Moving on” without apology. This dynamic carries over and manifests in our daily lives through social, economic, health, interpersonal, workplace and other areas. The detriment is the foundation of chronic stress, diseases such as Sarcoidosis (MY OPINION), and according to recent studies on Black women in the workplace, even autoimmune diseases. When
The discouragement of studying history is a powerful but subtle message in Christianity. It’s moreso expressed as “forgive and forget” because allegedly this is what their god does. So you are going against “god” for remembering others’ sins. “Love keeps no record of wrongs” is one of many scriptures I believe the catholic church added of our history is one o
We do not know the depths of depravity of the colonizer, and this is to our undoing. Books I have read and suggest that you read to read to simply attempt to begin scratching the surface:
The Half has Never been Told by Edward Baptist
They were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rogers
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington
When you don’t know the diabolical in your history you will unknowingly make a mortal enemy a friend; go where you should stay away from, or marry into a bloodline that was the terrorizer of your ancestors
Fear of grief, because it causes remembrance and rage (the latter of which is a “sin”) and that quickens ideas of vengeance and consequence to arise (also “sins” in Christianity). In christianity, grief is expressed through the exercise of physically exertive worship, then redirected to the reminder of god being in control, so parishioners pass their tests.
Healthy grief leads to studying history, looking into what’s been done to you and seeking closure as you seek those responsible for your pain, seek to hold people and systems accountable. This act causes unraveling to the idea of christianity, so your healing actually contradicts its structures. Christianity works behind the veil with vices, vulgarity and violence, requiring its congregants to act out of their animal instincts through indulgence in their lowest urges: it’s a dynamic that causes one to blackmail themselves into returning to church and begging god for forgiveness instead of getting to the root of the pain and eradicating it. Healed people don’t need church, and they certainly won’t be persuaded to remain in cults.
Laboring for love— striving to be liked as patterned by the worship service where god is begged to show up. The striving that the church doesn’t heal because it’s connected to the useful rejection you need to stay bound to so that you’ll be a faithful church member, stay with that abusive husband, and be a super-worker. It’s all connected. Deliverance from striving breaks scales off of one’s eyes
Shrugging at sinister things because they’re “over there”. Christianity is a zionist, white supremist supercult. It’s diabolical works of genocide, war, famine, and drought are communicated through the pulpit as part of “god’s plan”, as if they are signs of the times when they are acts committed by evil powers. Christians are programmed to view bomb-dropping as organic products of the last days, meanwhile they are disabled from bearing witness, grateful that things happening far from home are being spared from their experience. White christians understand that their comforts are purchased by the precious blood of the oppressed elsewhere, wheras Black christians are discouraged from viewing Black and brown bodies as the fodder and propitiation to white gods and thus the success of whiteness in the West.
Classism. Not much needs to be said about how the prosperity gospel has caused both Black and white christians to view poverty as a causation of one’s personal choices and not violence by design.
Lack of rest and love of work as a means of proving value when our ancestors worked tortuously
No reparations, and still we collaborate and lend constructive efforts to the very system that once enslaved us.
Knowing there are segregated neighborhoods, food deserts, etc. and being ok with it by design, because jesus said that “the poor you will have with you always”. And yet he also said it’s harder for a rich man to get into heaven than a camel to go through the eye of a needle but the prosperity gospel has inveigled many into becoming proud capitalists and laborers in empire because this means more money to tithe which means jesus is even more likely to bless them. Sounds like an MLM but…
The platforming of violent men and women. Christianity has set countless individuals on platforms who are racist, disgraceful, larcenous, violent (ie sexual abusers) and destructive. Because of “forgiveness” they are allowed to proceed, taking heaps of love offerings and preaching their ever-evolving versions of salvation to unknowing souls. We can regard how the catholic church moves perverted priests from one diocese to another once their abuses have been exposed, or we can venture back to the DIABOLICAL deeds done to Indigenous children throughout the americas with the Indigenous reform schools, solely run by the catholic church, aka Christianity’s (EVERY branch) Mother (watch the documentary Sugarcane, executive produced by Lily Gladstone).
Being encouraged to distance white people from their evil context while Black people are persistently placed in the context of disenfranchisement…
Morbidity of coexisting w/ our enemies
Tolerating violence but intolerance for hating the violent
Having to behold the wicked get rewarded
seeking approval and validation from systems
Lynching. Literal and metaphorical.
In the sweet by and by… comes “heaven” while colonizers build theirs on earth at your expense
Being made the laughing stock of the world with degrading media perpetuating stereotypes when YOU were the people group enslaved…
These and more are ways christianity has kept us from understanding the diabolical. Let’s be clear: white people made blood covenants to have what they have. From genocide to lynching to the torure of enslavement. They are a DIABOLICAL people and we live in their DIABOLICAL system, which subscribes to the worship of their diabolical god, named jesus. The vigilance required from us is to not allow their pattern of devilishness enter our minds as NORMAL and to live in such a way where our vigilance prevents their backwardsness from deviating us from our Divine, ancestral focus. Allyship with the diabolical removes us from the table of authority with our ancestors and the Divine.
Speaking of, the next conditioning that christianity gives us is the energetically wearisome patience to deal with dysfunction. One of the most overt traits of the devil is chaos and confusion. Yet these don’t always manifest as wild parties or not knowing which way to turn. They manifest as the bending against your conscience, protecting violent people because they’re in your “network” (and you “dont know that side of them” or that thing they did “has nothing to do with you…”), sharing space (ie the workplace) with unremoreseful people; operating against your healing, hopefulness, sacredness, and undermining your discernment and authority.
