Are there really any children of the almighty creator in Christendom today
Isn't It...
Funny how a $20.00 bill looks so big when you take it to church, but so
small when you take it to the mall.
Funny how big an hour serving God looks and how small 60 minutes are
when spent watching television, playing sports, sleeping or taking a lunch
break.
Funny how long a couple of hours spent at church are but how short they
are when watching a good movie.
Funny how we get thrilled when a football game goes into overtime, but
we complain when a sermon is longer than the regular time.
Funny how laborious it is to read a chapter in the Bible and how easy it
is to read 200-300 pages of a best selling novel.
Funny how we believe what newspapers say, but question what the Bible
says.
Funny how people scramble to get a front seat at a concert, but scramble
to get a back seat at the church service.
Funny how we cannot fit a gospel meeting into our schedule with our
yearly planner but we can schedule for other events at a moment's notice.
Funny how we look forward to that big date on Friday night, but complain
about getting up for church on Sunday morning.
Funny how we are rarely late to work, but always late to church.
Funny how we call God our Father and Jesus our brother, but find it hard
to introduce them to our family.
Funny how small our sins seem, but how big their sins are.
Funny how we demand justice for others, but expect mercy from God.
Funny how much difficulty some have learning the gospel well enough to
tell others, but how simple it is to understand and explain the latest gossip
about someone else.
Funny how we can't think of anything to say when we pray, but don't have
any difficulty thinking of things to talk about to a friend.
Funny how we are so quick to take directions from a total stranger when
we are lost, but are hesitant to take God's direction for our lives.
Funny how so many church goers sing "Standing on the Promises"
but all they do is sit on the premises.
Funny how people want God to answer their prayers, but refuse to listen
to His counsel.
Funny how we sing about heaven, but live only for today.
Funny how people think they are going to Heaven but don't think there is
a Hell.
Funny how it is okay to blame God for evil and suffering in the world,
but it is not necessary to thank Him for what is good and pleasant.
Funny how when something goes wrong, we cry, "Lord, why me?"
but when something goes right, we think, "Hey, it must be me!"
...Or wait...maybe all this isn't so "funny" after all.
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BEWARE OF PROSPERITY
GOSPEL PREACHERS
A Synoptic Version of
"SANCTION ALL PROSPERITY GOSPEL PREACHERS
By:
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
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Quotations in this Discourse are
from "Good News Bible", or NIV, just like this one:
Isa 1:18
18 "Come now, let us reason together,"
says the LORD.
"Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall
be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.
A CALL FOR RE-DIRECTION IS DR KENEZ
EXISTENTIAL PREFACE FOR WORLD PEACE
My dear people of God, great
grandsons of Adam by obedience to natural laws, and grandsons of Abraham by
faith and my ardent followers of Jesus Christ, the time is ripe for everyone to
rethink and repudiate the aberrations in the theory and practice of Christianity
of the 21st century! It is self evident that we have all derailed and are in
dire need of an urgent internal auditing of our moral standards and social
ethics in the light of reason and social justice respectively.
Can we honestly claim that all
the preachers that today, parade as pastors and priests are actually servants
of Almighty God and of the Lord Jesus? If one truly remembers the fervent
warnings of the apostles Peter and Paul in their letters, one can easily,
identify "the wolves in sheep's clothing" masquerading as
‘born-again' Christians among us today! Refresh your mind by reading 2nd Peter 2: vv. 1 -
3:
· "False
prophets appeared in the past among the people, and in the same way false
teachers will appear among you. They will bring in destructive, untrue
doctrines, and will deny the Master who redeemed them, and so they will bring
upon themselves sudden destruction. Even so, many will follow their immoral
way; and because of what they do, others will speak evil of the Way of Truth.
In their greed, these false teachers will make a profit out of telling you
made-up stories. For a long time now their Judge has been ready, and their
Destroyer has been wide awake!"
Or read 1st Timothy 1: vv. 3 - 7:
· "I
want you to stay in Ephesus, just as I urged you when I was on my way to
Macedonia. Some people there are teaching false doctrines, and you must order
them to stop. Tell them to give up those legends and those long lists of
ancestors, which only produce arguments; they do not serve God's plan, which is
known by faith. The purpose of this order is to arouse the pure love that comes
from a pure heart, a clear conscience and a genuine faith. Some people have
turned away from these and have lost their way in foolish discussions. They
want to be teachers of God's law, but they do not understand their own words or
the matters about which they speak with so much confidence."
Mundane materialism is on the
increase as these false healers continue to pauperise those who seek signs and
wonders to alleviate their health problems. Priests, pastors and bishops drive
limousines today, whereas their Master Jesus walked the unpaved roads and
pathways of Palestine ignoring horses and chariots! At the same time, bestial concupiscence
ensures that sexual immorality is the order of the day. Whereas Mary of Magdala
wept at the feet of the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair, current day
prostitutes camouflaged as ‘born-again sisters' ensnare and demonise our
equally promiscuous ‘men of god' with debauchery and sex scandals! Theatrical
subterfuge has reached its highest point, as gluttony is eulogised. The current
spate of prosperity preaching is a case in point! Who can redeem us from these
demonic onslaughts on traditional ethos, norms and mores as well as Christian
piety in the guise of modernism?
It is only this timely
interdenominational forum formed by Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez! I do not intend to
pre-empt what the Rev. Professor has in stock for you in this masterpiece of
evangelical satire, but it is relevant to remind you not to fall into the error
of thinking that all glittering objects are gold! Far from it! One needs to
have faith in the power of the Almighty Father to come to his rescue before any
genuine healing is bestowed on such a faithful one! No human has
the power to heal the sick or exorcise demons! It is only through his Holy
Spirit that the Almighty God chooses the medium, which he uses. It could be a
man or a woman using a simple prayer, a cup of drinking water, the rubbing of
olive oil or simply the laying of hands! But the vessel to be used must be pure
and holy. Moreover, no true healer ever charges fees or extorts money for his
services! The good ones always tell the recipient to praise God! I wish you God's blessings as you read, digest and
act on the contents of this book. It is an invitation to genuine repentance. It
is a call for re-direction!
Dr. Jideofo
Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, D. Psych., O. S. S
1.1 AN OVERVIEW OF THE SCENARIO
Every Wednesday night of the past
decade has been a nightmare for the residents of GRA within a kilometre of the
Park Lane Hospital in Enugu Urban. Even those of us living three kilometres
away, across the Ekulu River, hardly sleep due to the blaring of super sonic
loud speakers reeling off a cacophony of religious songs all through the night.
The din is not only nauseating but also fanatical and puerile.
As early as 5.00 p.m. every
Wednesday evening, the pilgrims start trooping from the Four Corners of the
wind. By 7.00 p.m. a riotous motley of fanatics, mystics, neurotics,
schizophrenics, the barren, the widowed, the blind, the deaf, the crippled and
the chronic spinsters or bachelors assemble for a "Holy Ghost Fire
Night!" The craze for abundance in wealth and/or material things of life
mistakenly identified as miracles, easily called "signs and wonders"
is the latest fad among worshippers of all religions, as well as, Christians of
all denominations. If there is any ecumenism that is non-sectarian today, it is
to be found among the less privileged seeking for divine healing, the
pauperised Christians seeking easy access to prosperity and increment of their
meagre salaries through rapid promotions in the civil service or the private
sector of the depressed economy. Birds of different plumage sink their
dissimilarities and opposing doctrines if only it would guarantee them
spiritual relief and the emotional ecstasy the weekly night vigil provides. All
over the country, such religious spectacles have become a recurrent decimal in
the theory and practice of Christianity since the advent of the American
version of Pentecostalism. It soon found loyal associates and solidarity in the
company of Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement (CCRM), the Evangelic
Fellowship of the Anglican Communion (EFAC), the Christian or Scripture Union
(CU or SU) and a host of such other syncretic organisations within the
Christian Community nation-wide! Over three thousand exotic names of mushroom
churches exist today!
The undue craze for signs and
wonders: a.k.a. deliverance, healing, exorcism, miracles or divine cures and
the proliferation of healers of all descriptions and their healing centres is
the eight wonder of the world or even the universe! Miracle seekers troop from
one crusade ground to another not minding the travel expenses to and from these
centres that often are separated by more than five hundred kilometres! These
journeys into the unknown, the unbudgeted-for pilgrimages and their feeding
bills further dwindle the lean resources of these paupers! "Don't
worry!" they exclaim, "God will always provide!" Some are ready
to do "dry" fasting for fourteen days or even longer not minding
their poor health status, all in the name of getting divine favours! Most of
these fanatical miracle-seekers are not only ignorant and confused but are
misguided by their greedy pastors who fleece them all in the name of signs and
wonders. These brothers / sisters of ours desperately need counselling,
re-education and redemption from their hypnotised mental status and the
indoctrination of their fake prosperity preaching pastors.
Jesus, our Lord and Master, was
not born into a wealthy family or an upper social class nor did he envy those
who were! Do you remember the rich young man he asked to "Go sell all you
have and come follow me"? The righteous youth left dejected! Moreover,
Jesus went further by commenting on how more difficult it would be for the rich
to enter the kingdom, stating that it would be easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle! Read the gospels of Matthew 19: vv. 16 - 30, Mark
10: vv. 17 - 30 and Luke 18: 18 - 30. Do not read this booklet any further
without doing so! You will be glad you did!
There must be some demonic mass
hysteria or occult hypnotism or juju powers involved in today's craze for
prosperity among Christians who will do anything abominable to be rich and
comfortable! This is the diabolical reason why most greedy pastors and healers
would go to native doctors, worship any idol and perform any rituals in search
of demonic powers to demonstrate signs and wonders! Some use magical
handkerchiefs, others a wave of the hand and yet some blow some air in the
direction of their victims who fall down mimicking prostration under the power
of the Holy Spirit! This is what this book sets out to unravel. Then, an
attempt will be made to straighten out the false indoctrination that has for
long kept the congregation hypnotised by this new brand of healers who drive
limousines whereas their flock trek the crusade grounds and the very streets of
the cities they have converted into their financial empires!
All manners of publicity gimmick,
subliminal advertising tricks, blatant trade and cut-throat commerce are now
employed by our psychedelic nouveau-riche crusade preachers to ‘fleece the
flock and pay the ladies'! Many now make wild claims to signs and wonders
performed ‘in the name of Jesus' often tagged deliverance, healing, exorcism
and miracles. Money change hands after such magical demonstrations!
Jesus forewarned us of such fake
miracle workers! "Freely have you received, so give freely" he
cautioned his disciples! We must be wary or else get deceived by these sons and
daughters of Satan who parade as miracle workers. We need to remind ourselves
of what Our Lord Jesus said about most of these fake workers of signs and
wonders! "I do not know you" he said he would tell them at the
judgement day when they would try to prove their loyalty by asserting that they
cured, healed and cast out demons in his name!
This time around, we want to
expose the tricks and falsehood in so many pretences at or spurious claims to
exorcism, deliverance or healing! Read THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, Chapters 23 &
24, and you will see that false claims to speaking on behalf of God had always
been there. God hates any fake prophet, priest or pastor who deceives his
people! Verse 11 of Chapter 23 sums up God's verdict:
v.11: The Lord says, "The prophets and the priests are godless;
I have caught them doing evil in the Temple itself.
v.12: The paths they follow will be slippery and dark;
I will make them stumble and fall. I am going to bring disaster on them;
the time of their punishment is coming.
I, the Lord have spoken
Read all the way down, and take
note of very interesting verses e.g.
v. 31: Listen to what I, the
Lord, say! I am against the prophets who tell their dreams that are full of
lies. They tell these dreams and lead my people astray and their boasting I did
not send them or order them to go, and they are of no help at all to the people.
I, the Lord have spoken."
I have nothing to add to those
Old Testament prophecies, except that I will unmask these false preachers
within the confines of this short conference paper. This resume is actually
only an appetiser to the main course meal, "SANCTION ALL PROSPERITY GOSPEL
PREACHERS" a 250-page book, that you can purchase outside this hall now!
‘Bon apetit!'
A Synoptic Version of
"SANCTION ALL PROSPERITY GOSPEL PREACHERS
By:
Rev. Prof. J. J. Kenez, D.Sc.
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A CROSS-CULTURAL HARMONISATION OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
THE PANACEA FOR RACISM
By
Dr. J. K. Danmbaezue, D. Psych., FACRS,
Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Existential Family Therapist.
M.D. Kenez Health Clinic, & ANIMATOR, Happy Family Network International
Block: C, House: 82, Federal Housing Estate, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu.
P. O. Box 1995. Phone 042-551199 or 550344
ENUGU STATE OF NIGERIA
Being the Paper presented at
THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON RACISM
Holding at Durban, South Africa
23rd August – 2nd September 2001.
Abstract
This guest paper emphasizes the origins and development of prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, stereotypy and religious bigotry as the seeds that germinate into racism or racialism, dominant and minority ethnic groups that culminate in stressful relations, violence and wars.
A cross-cultural harmonization of child-rearing practices is the author’s therapeutic prescription if youths must be re-oriented towards the universal brotherhood of mankind. We have the same basic anatomy and physiology; we share the same air, water, food and rest periods. Blood groupings, emotions, motivations, and libido allow for similar sex attractions, pregnancies and births. So, where do these ethnic superiority and inferiority complexes come from?
The “Kenezian Creed” and “The Letter to Educationists all over the world”, epitomize the ideals that this Existential Therapeutic Programme enunciates. The panacea for racism is a systematic re-education, religious liberalism and socio-political equality, which should form the foundations of cross-cultural harmonization of youth counselling and personality development initiatives.
Concise C. V.
Dr. J. K. Danmbaezue is a sixty-four year old privately employed Psychotherapist & Psychometrician with an outfit where the counsels young adults about to wed, administering psychological tests and utilizing them objectively to re-direct incompatible couples. He is a certified Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Existential Family Therapist registered in Nigeria. He also has an NGO-christened HAPPY FAMILY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, which aims at the globalization of those principles neatly encapsulated in the Kenezian Creed and His letter to All Educationists. He is happily married and has three kids. He holds a Doctor of Science degree in psychometrics besides his Fellowship of the African College of Research Scientists.
INTRODUCTION:
Philosophy demands the delimitation of concepts, terms or nomenclatures for clarity of discussions, analyses, conclusions and recommendations. The following are relevant in our case:
Prejudice is “a system of negative conceptions, feelings and action-orientations regarding the members of a particular group”; whereas “Discrimination” refers to “overt action in which members of a group are accorded unfavourable treatment on the basis of their religious, ethnic or racial membership” Zanden, (1972).
Ethnocentrism is “an exaggerated tendency to think the characteristics of one’s own group or race superior to those of other groups or races” whereas “stereotypy” means “a pathological symptom of mental or nervous disorder showing itself in continuous repetition of seemingly senseless words and syllables, or of certain posture’s and actions”. Drever (1972).
Religious bigotry refers to “an obsessive belief and practice system whereby a person or group of people has strong and unreasonable opinion and will not listen to or accept any contrary views or religious opinions of anyone who disagrees”. Hornby (1976).
Racism or Racialism refers to “any set of beliefs that organic genetically transmitted differences (whether real or imagined) between human groups are intrinsically associated with the presence or absence of certain socially relevant abilities or characteristics, hence that such differences are a legitimate basis of invidious distinctions between groups socially defined as races” Berghe (1967).
Ethnic Group is a parallel term for race “which is often socially defined on the basis of cultural characteristics superimposed on perceived physical traits defined by the group and/or is defined by other groups as different.... by virtue of innate... inherited on genetically induced behavioural patterns”. A. H. Coleman-cited in – Krauss (1976) and this naturally leads us to Dominant and Minority groups – which are the remote and immediate causes of violence, terrorism and wars.
A Dominant Group is “one within a national state whose distinctive culture and/or physiognomy is established as superior in the society and which treats differentially/unequally other groups in the society with other cultures or physiognomy “Marden and Meyer (1968), and correspondingly;
A Minority Group is a “culturally or physically distinctive and self–conscious social aggregate, with hereditary membership and a high degree of endogamy, which is subject to political, economic or social discrimination by a dominant segment of an environing political society” Williams (1964).
Analytically therefore, the recurrent decimal in all these definitions is that racists are misguided, self-opinionated and neurotic people who need ego trips or massage to suppress their feelings of inadequacy, otherwise termed INFERIORITY COMPLEX.
Ethnology and Ethnography do not support apartheid, religious bigotry or racism. For want of space and time, there are two traditions in ethnic relations and socio-anthropological studies, which this existential author subscribes to
(i) the psychosocial orientation, which is phenomenological, and
(ii) the socio-cultural orientation, which is existential.
Both form the contrasting research perspectives that most scholars patronize.
However they should complement each other. Individuals are born “tabula raza” - a clean slate! It is parents and relevant others that write on and crowd this slate with parochial traditions! No child hates another child! Hatred is a learned behaviour! So many films and dramas portray this. Individual prejudice comes mainly from the internalization of the prejudicial norms of one’s society. A case in point is the historical origin of Hitler’s hatred for the Jews. A mistaken identity and maltreatment in his primary school days when he freely associated with Jewish children -–was the remote cause of anti-Semitism which he internationalized, followed by ‘German blood superiority’ he championed which eventually led to the two world wars he engineered!
The adult populations manufactured Black-White lopsided relations in U.S.A, and segregationist policies among/towards the indigenes; Red Indians, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. These racist or apartheid concepts and their implementations were neither by teenagers nor by adolescents. South Africa’s multiracial society and apartheid system have been studied as the ultimate in structured inequality while Hawaii and Brazil as multiracial societies with a low degree of racism. Why can’t we replicate the latter form of ethnic relations in all countries of the world? The choice is ours!
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
It is interesting to note what anthropologists, psychiatrists, sociologists and psychologists have concluded after varying researches into various aspects of child-rearing practices all over the world. Collumb and Valatin (1970), French psychiatrists, concluded thus:
“The social changes attendant on modernization cause far reaching disturbances in traditional family organization and bring about alterations in the relationship of the child to the family group. Love and authority are no longer provided for the child by the communal group of the whole family but (only) by the biological parents.... Are the parents able to take on these loving and disciplinary roles alone? Cut off from their extended family group on all sides, can they overcome their own problems and fears and make themselves ready to fulfill their new functions? How does the child experience these changes? Is it already possible to set out their pathological consequences? It is difficult to say; however, one may state that the number of maladjusted children, the number of adolescents with problems is growing considerably, especially in towns. The present generation will be followed by another which will have the same incidence of schizophrenia as in West” p. 127
This international Conference in South Africa in 2001 should address those fundamental questions. What this author offers is only a palliative/prophylactic recommendation. Before that however – we need to recall what Erikson (1972) and Kohlberg (1969) posited as the critical stages of moral development in teenagers and adolescents. These will help us formulate the cross-cultural harmonization this paper proposes.
In his “EIGHT AGES OF MAN”, Chap. 7 pp. 239-266; Erikson established eight sensitive developmental patterns that parents, teachers and relevant others must take advantage of, if children must grow up into mature, respectful and responsible citizens of the world. Correspondingly, in his “DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL CHARACTER AND MORAL IDEOLOGY” – a cognitive developmental approach – Lawrence Kohlberg of Harvard University posted six moral stages that teenagers pass through – namely: pre-moral, instrumental-hedonistic, role taking, law-and-order, autonomous-principle, and finally the universal-ethical-principle.
Time and space may not allow a detailed discussion of these stages. However, let it be known also that: Bandura & Walters, (1963) have their SOCIAL LEARNING AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH, while Goshin, (1969) has relevant topics in their HANDBOOK OF SOCIALIZATION THEORY AND RESEARCH; while Hoffman Martin, has his “Moral Development Theory” cited in Paul. H. Mussen (Ed.) CARMICHAEL’S MANUAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY (3rd Ed.)
All point to this one fact: That what we give or fail to give growing children, teenagers or adolescents form the base of all racial discriminations, hatred, fear and apartheid tendencies. There are no known genetic traits, or inherited behavioural patterns that warrant racial discrimination. The adult population manufactured, patented and marketed RACISM. Therefore, it remains their duty and urgent responsibility to dismantle and obliterate the consequences of their mischievous and xenophobic creations; apartheid, religious bigotry, anti-Semitism, Zionism and all other forms of racial inequalities that they breed!
The creator of the Universe did not input any racial inequalities in his created universe and beings. Nor did Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, even mention any scientific basis for racism. Politicians, warmongers, and demonic rulers who traded in human beings and monetary values invented racism based on their inferiority complexes, xenophobic reactions and vainglorious exploits. For how long must we all suffer for their mischief? The onerous duty of liberated minds, as exemplified by the participants at this United Nation’s Conference will come into sharper focus as we deliberate on the therapeutic measures proposed by this paper.
CROSS-CULTURAL HARMONISATION
In the light of the foregone scientific references, this psychotherapist has developed two basic inter-ethnic and inter-racial compositions – spanning a period of thirty years and has labelled them “THE KENEZIAN CREED” and “THE LETTER TO TEACHERS OF HIS CHILDREN”. The pair is crucial re-orientation ploys to revolutionize the religious and educational climates of the world and subsequently ameliorate or slow down the incidence of/or the increase in racial tensions, religious fanaticism and ethnic cleansing.
“CROSS-CULTURAL” here is used as an adjective meaning “involving, or containing ideas or elements from two or more different cultures, while “HARMONIZE” to make something harmonious e.g. colours that harmonize well (i.e. together produce a pleasing effect) or the cottages harmonize well with the landscape. In music “harmonization” means to play or sing notes that accompany the main tune and produce harmony with the lead singer”. Hornby (1995) pp 279 & 544
From the above the therapeutic regimen for racialism and other ethnic stressful relationships lies in the Homo sapiens sapiens accepting that each culture must harmonize with the lead race; that is, the HUMAN RACE. If musicians can harmonize with the lead singer why are whites, blacks and yellows unable to harmonize? It is due to ignorance, petty jealousy, morbid fear of strangers and unbridled self-pride. An attempt must be made to de-emphasize religion which is the greatest harbinger of fanatical zeal to discriminate against and dominate others. MISINFORMATION or DISINFORMATION – also known as propaganda that completes the racial tones dictated by maniacal leaders, politicians and governments must be halted and reversed systematically.
The Kenezian Creed sifts the L.C.M and H.C.F. of the human race. Then it dresses them in philosophic, ethical and scientific language which harmonises with the main language of nature – WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, WITH SAME CREATOR, SAME BLOOD AND PLASMA, SIMILAR ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY and WE INTER-MARRY AND PRODUCE SAME SPECIES. Of what value are our World Cups, Olympics and Arts Festivals, if at the end of the day we still discriminate and derogate others based simply on the colour of their skin, or eyes and or the texture of their hairs? Does emotion and motivation vary among the races of mankind? No, is the answer! Any man or woman can learn the language of the ethnic groups they are born into and mingle with; hence, English, French, Swahili, German and some other languages have gained international appeal and usage. In the like manner, let’s amplify those areas of cognition, memory and recall that unify the races rather than propagate those minor differences that separate and antagonise us.
In education, any child irrespective of skin colour, genetic endowment and child rearing practices can become a genius in nuclear physics, computer science, acrobatics and, music. There has never been, nor there ever be a scientific proof of the superiority of one race to another. These xenophobic rationalizations are ego defense mechanisms that emanate from depraved and demented minds and must not be allowed to drag us to another world war. A word is enough for the wise. The systematic incorporation of the tenets of the following compositions into primary school/educational curricula will eradicate racism worldwide:
THE KENEZIAN CREED
Nuggets of Wisdom for the Unification of all Belief Systems.
1. I am of age; therefore, I affirm that I exist! I am “ME”, you are “YOU” and we are “US”. I affirm that I am a Created Being living in the present, hoping to come to an end as other creatures I have observed, do come to a definitive end.
2. I therefore know that all finite creatures obey some natural laws that govern existence. I affirm that these laws are also eternal and like every other law, must have a Giver. I deduce therefore that there are commensurate sanctions for any deliberate violation of these laws.
3. When I observe the heavens and landscapes, hills and valleys, rivers and oceans, sunrise and sunset, equinoxes and eclipses, I am certain that this Eternal Law-giver is Great and Powerful in all respects and possesses Superhuman Intelligence, Power and Control over all of us?
4. When I inspect living and non-living beings, their beauty and variety, their numbers and their sizes, especially their modes of survival in varying environments, and particularly their ability to reproduce their kinds, I confess that this Eternal Law-giver must be Beautiful, Loving and All-Creative.
5. I respect “IT” in all “ITS” creations while admiring in particular those that move about. For I do realise that I share the traits they have; we all have the same basic structures, we survive by performing similar functions, have similar feelings and produce comparable results. I cannot but bow in reverence and worship this Almighty Being, the Eternal Law-Giver who sustains everything on this planet.
6. This Almighty Being set all things in motion. “IT” directs their courses and life spans, keeps them in space and time, now and always. And because there are no accidents in nature when “IT’S” laws are strictly adhered to, I attest to the fact that “IT” is the greatest GOOD; All-knowing, All-caring and Ever Present Being.
7. To “IT” be all my respect, obedience and loyalty, as I extend my hands of love and brotherhood to all Human Beings, co-heirs and offspring of this Almighty Creator and Father of all.
Therefore, my creed concisely is this:
• THE UNIVERSE IS MY COUNTRY AND INHERITANCE,
• (b) ALL MANKIND, MY BLOOD RELATIVES AND EQUALS,
• (c) SEEKING THE TRUTH, LIVING THE TRUTH AND DOING GOOD AT ALL TIMES – MY RELIGION.
My 50th Birthday gift to Mankind.
Composed, Revised and Ratified between 1970-1998
DR KENEZ DANMBAEZUE’S PLEAS TO EVERY TEACHER OF HIS CHILDREN
*(Each paragraph/plea can be used as the theme of Morning Assembly Talks)
Dear Teacher,
• Your job is an onerous one, commendable by both God and man,
• My child will look up to you as a role model, a mirror to view the world;
• You will have to father him for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week and 35 weeks per year,
• That’s long enough to make or mar his future, his classmates and that of this country.
Stanza 1:
• Teach him to look around and admire the beauty in nature, himself inclusive,
• Let him know that for every child he sees, there are two parents – a father and a mother;
• So for the birds he sees, trees, animals, hills, rivers, sun, daylight, night and moonlight,
• There is but One Almighty Father, who created and takes care of us all on a daily basis.
Stanza 2:
• Teach him to trust and obey The Almighty Creator with worship in humility,
• And to love every other being, as we all are sons and daughters of the same Creator;
• Let him realise that when it rains, it’s for every one: plants, animals and man,
• The Creator’s kindness and benevolence does not choose those to hate or love.
Stanza 3.
• Teach him that for every lie he tells, he will tell ten more lies to cover it up,
• And for ten lies, he needs one hundred more lies – that is foolishness;
• So let him learn that truth is golden, more precious than wealth and riches,
• Knowledge, wisdom and fame are the rewards earned by truthful people.
Stanza 4:
• In school, let him love and respect his classmates and fight to protect the weaker ones,
• Allow him to taste bitter and sweet things; and to combine laughter and suffering;
• That way you will have prepared him to deal with wicked and honest human beings,
• Thereby teaching him to differentiate good from evil and to do good all his life.
Stanza 5:
• Teach him that lying, cheating and stealing produce criminals and rogues,
• Teach him that a kobo earned is better than a hundred won by lottery;
• It’s better to go hungry than enjoy a meal prepared with stolen money,
• Or eat crumbs of bread among finest friends than a whole loaf among dishonest men.
Stanza 6:
• Teach him that a passage studied, understood and memorised,
• Is far better than one simply crammed and repeated like a parrot;
• The former leads to ingenuity, resourcefulness and creativity,
• The latter to imitative behaviour, and lack of self-confidence;
• Teach him that it’s more honourable to fail an examination,
• Than to copy, cheat or use “expo” methods to pass any examination.
Stanza 7:
• Finally teach him that it is better to be neither too poor nor too rich,
• Than to become wealthy by stealing, deceit and cutting corners;
• The former leads to contentment, peace of mind and long life,
• The latter to arrogance, greed, restlessness and sudden death;
• Explain to him what “Honesty is the best policy” really means,
• And the practical implications of the saying: “More haste, less speed”.
Postscript:
My Dear Teacher
• You’ll have to believe and practise these yourself,
• Before you can teach them to my son and his mates;
• But be assured that if you succeed in this assignment,
• You will be a hero and the father of heroes and heroines;
• And that’s what our dear country needs most.
May God guide your endeavours!
My 53rd Birthday Gift to Humanity and all Educationists,
Inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s & Gestation Period: 1997-2001
RESUME, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The etiological origin of racism is ethnocentric megalomania best exemplified by Adolf Hitler’s xenophobic ideas. “Xenophobia” as defined by Drever (1972) is “a morbid fear of strangers”, and Hornby (1995) concerns by defining it as “an intense dislike or fear of strangers or people from other countries”... “excessive patriotism can lead to xenophobia” – he concluded p. 1385.
“Racism or racialism” van den Berghe (1967) affirms, “are beliefs (not facts) that organic genetically transmitted differences (real or imagined) exist between social groups” which he concluded were false. There has never been any existential or scientific proof that a Caucasian is superior to Negroid or Mongoloid specie of the human race. Racism is puerile and futile!
Professor M. Nesturkh, a Russian anthropologist has a 133-page hardbound book, with over 100 black and white and coloured pictures - entitled THE RACES OF MANKIND. In the preface, Professor N. N. Cheboksarov, a Doctor of History, and a Miklukho-Maklai Prize Winner, opens up thus:
The problem of the races of mankind is one of the most important in anthropology, the science that studies the natural history of man with all the variations due to age, sex, and geographical factors. The races of mankind are, in actual fact, geographical (or territorial) variations, historically conditioned, of a single physical type-MAN.
The writings of the founders of Marxism-Leninism contain many valuable statements on such problems as the connection between the origin of races and the natural geographical conditions of life of primitive man; the distant ancestors of the present–day peoples, the gradual obliteration of racial differences in the course of historical development, the racial mixtures that make up modern nations and the absolute invalidity of racism.
A correct conception of the races of mankind is of particularly great political and scientific importance today, in the period of the collapse of the colonial system and the unparalleled development of the struggle for national liberation by the dependent and colonial peoples. The ideologists of imperialism, in their effort to provide a basis for class, national and colonial oppression, have advanced the false “theory” of the physical and mental inequality of races, or the existence of “higher” and “lower” races, of races that are capable and those that are incapable of independent, social, economic and cultural development.
Racism is closely bound up with reactionary nationalism and chauvinism. The Programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, adopted by the Twenty-Second Party Congress, lays special stress on the fact that nationalistic prejudice and the survivals of former national discord constitute the sphere in which resistance to social progress may be the longest, fiercest, most stubborn and most implacable. The misanthropic inventions of the racists stand in direct contradiction to the data provided by anthropology”. Pp 5 & 6
All scientists agree with the learned Russian Professor and Prize Winner! Moreover, Professor M. Nesturukh, himself concludes his introduction to the book thus:
“The author realises the difficulties attaching to the task he has undertaken and will be satisfied if his readers obtain from his book a general idea of the concept of races and their origin and a conviction of the unscientific nature of racism”. P 10.
It is the conclusion of this paper that only intellectual pygmies and anthropological misfits can, and do propagate racism in ethnic or religious relations. But for the fact that this is a scientific paper, passages in the Torah, Bible, Koran and the Bhagavad-Gita would have been used to substantiate the stupidity of racialism and the demonic possession of all racists. They are all adenescents!
Suffice it to recommend the following:
i. That all racists be subjected to a psychiatric evaluation. It is possible that they have congenital deficiencies that warrant their schizophrenia fantasies.
ii. That participants at this conference devise means and modalities for appealing to religious leaders of all shades, colours and faith to repudiate discriminatory sermons, doctrines or catechesis in their religious worship.
iii. That all film makers and drama writers expunge sentences or scenes depicting superiority or inferiority in all their products. On the other hand they must encourage scriptwriters to douse the embers of hatred, violence and ethnic jealousies in their productions e.g. GUESS, WHO’S COMING TO DINNER.
iv. That musicians review their lyrics and emulate the consortium of international stars that gave us the famous song: WE ARE THE WORLD. In like manner, let all intelligent people all over the world stand up to be counted among music lovers who appreciate that orchestras and choirs need soprano, alto, tenor and bass to harmonise the lead instrument or singer. So also should white, black and yellow races blend or harmonise the leading HUMAN RACE.
v. All newly established families must make conscious efforts to give their offspring a better deal or lease of life rather than feed them the same nepotic ideas or prejudices their own parents condemned to feed on during their growing years
vi. Re-education in all nursery, kindergarten and primary schools, must eliminate
segregations based on colour, class or creed. Each stanza or paragraph of the Kenezian letter to all liberated educationist can be used to conduct morning assemblies.
vii. National constitutions should incorporate sections that make it a crime to discriminate against any citizen, guest or stranger in one’s native land. Moreover, national prizes may be awarded to those adjudged to have demonstrated the tenets of the Kenezian Creed practically in their daily living.
Signed.........................................................…………………
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Race and Ethnic Relations. p. 451. Cited in Krauss S. (ed.) Encyclopedic Handbook of Medical Psychology, Butterworths. London Boston.
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Ethopsychiatrie et evolution de la schizophrenia” in Famille Africaine “de” L’enfant dans la Famille”, ed. by E.J. Anthony and C. Koupermik, Paris; Masson et Cie.
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Letter to Teachers of Children World-wide”. International Education Project, Kenez Health Klinik C 82, Federal Housing Estate, Enugu.
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A Dictionary of Psychology – Penguin Reference Books-Revised by Harvey Wallersten – Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd. Great Britain.
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THE CHAIRMAN ORGANISING COMMITTEE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON RACISM
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
Thro: Mazi Okolie Animba
Consultant Counselling Psychologist/Dean, Student’s Affairs
Enugu State University of Science and Technology.
SUBMISSION AND PRESENTATION OF A CRUCIAL GUEST PAPER – “ A CROSS-CULTURAL HARMONISATION OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT – A Panacea for Racism”.
I congratulate all the initiators, organisers and sponsors of this all-important conference. A 37-year-old widow patient of mine threatened that I would only meet her corpse on return from South Africa if I abandoned her for it. I had to make o choice. My humble submission is a prelude to a scientific research I am conducting at present that might span ten to twenty years. Experientially, one can create a conducive environment where children of all races, ethnic groups and varying shades of belief systems, educational backgrounds and socio-political parentage can be reared together devoid of segregation, discrimination and nepotism. If such an experiment is feasible, research scientists could draw from it informed decisions and conclusions based on facts obtained from a longitudinal study. I do not subscribe to haphazard or incidental research papers meant for publications only or merely for attendance at conferences. Please accept this paper as my contribution to the theme you have chosen this year and expect a more detailed paper with statistical diagrams, graphs and tables subsequently.
God guide your deliberations, Yours sincerely, Signed this 19th day of August 2001
The Creator has hidden so much from our intellectual faculties that to date we are still unravelling those He is allowing humanity to glimpse at through divine dreams, intuitions, inspirations and revelations to devout souls! Do you want to have supernatural knowledge mediated by spiritual faculties of seeing, feeling, sensing and caring for others? Look inwards, for the kingdom of God is inside you, not outside as many preachers tell you. No one ever got eternal bliss by keeping the commandments of men. It is given to altruistic seekers of that Divine Guidance in the affairs of mankind, which many yearn for but do not know where, when and how to find it. Search for it in this book!
The creator gave humans some of his powers and knowledge for recreating the material universe for the mutual benefits of all his created beings but today many use his gifts to perpetrate evil. Either by design or demonic manipulation, the obverse is the case; the first datum that every living thing recognises is that someone put it here and caters for its welfare. Dogs respect and fight in defence of their owners. Every pet realises that it is loved and taken care of by someone who has value for its existence. It is human who pride themselves of being rational beings that do not recognise, respect or realise that all of us have a single owner. It is absurd! Some believe there is an Almighty Creator who provides for each creature on daily basis, some assert that he has turned his back on us due to our congenital wickedness and cruel ways, while others simply deny his existence!
This is my summation of the problem; “Religion was/is a superstitious search by humanity for its origin, existence, meaning and relevance before the scientific era. The search was led by acclaimed sages among the elders of a community who defined its theories and practices. It is later ratified and recommended for legislation and implementation by state apparatus by convincing stratagem or coercion by politico-religious leaders. Thereafter, it is fine tuned and administered by ordained priests and priestesses who hand it down along ancestral lineages from one generation of lukewarm adherents, fanatics and mystics to another. Gradually, strong personalities emerge claiming divine appointment and so pull strong followers who idolise them as role models with supernatural powers. This obsession confirms them as beacons of adulation and finally leads to full scale idolatry.
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A CROSS-CULTURAL HARMONISATION OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
THE PANACEA FOR RACISM
By
Dr. J. K. Danmbaezue, D. Psych., FACRS,
Consultant Clinical Psychologist / Existential Family Therapist.
M.D. Kenez Health Clinic, & ANIMATOR, Happy Family Network International
Block: C, House: 82, Federal Housing Estate, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu.
P. O. Box 1995. Phone 042-551199 or 550344
ENUGU STATE OF NIGERIA
Being the Paper presented at
THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON RACISM
Holding at Durban, South Africa
23rd August – 2nd September 2001.
Abstract
This guest paper emphasizes the origins and development of prejudice, discrimination, ethnocentrism, stereotypy and religious bigotry as the seeds that germinate into racism or racialism, dominant and minority ethnic groups that culminate in stressful relations, violence and wars.
A cross-cultural harmonization of child-rearing practices is the author’s therapeutic prescription if youths must be re-oriented towards the universal brotherhood of mankind. We have the same basic anatomy and physiology; we share the same air, water, food and rest periods. Blood groupings, emotions, motivations, and libido allow for similar sex attractions, pregnancies and births. So, where do these ethnic superiority and inferiority complexes come from?
The “Kenezian Creed” and “The Letter to Educationists all over the world”, epitomize the ideals that this Existential Therapeutic Programme enunciates. The panacea for racism is a systematic re-education, religious liberalism and socio-political equality, which should form the foundations of cross-cultural harmonization of youth counselling and personality development initiatives.
Concise C. V.
Dr. J. K. Danmbaezue is a sixty-four year old privately employed Psychotherapist & Psychometrician with an outfit where the counsels young adults about to wed, administering psychological tests and utilizing them objectively to re-direct incompatible couples. He is a certified Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Existential Family Therapist registered in Nigeria. He also has an NGO-christened HAPPY FAMILY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, which aims at the globalization of those principles neatly encapsulated in the Kenezian Creed and His letter to All Educationists. He is happily married and has three kids. He holds a Doctor of Science degree in psychometrics besides his Fellowship of the African College of Research Scientists.
INTRODUCTION:
Philosophy demands the delimitation of concepts, terms or nomenclatures for clarity of discussions, analyses, conclusions and recommendations. The following are relevant in our case:
Prejudice is “a system of negative conceptions, feelings and action-orientations regarding the members of a particular group”; whereas “Discrimination” refers to “overt action in which members of a group are accorded unfavourable treatment on the basis of their religious, ethnic or racial membership” Zanden, (1972).
Ethnocentrism is “an exaggerated tendency to think the characteristics of one’s own group or race superior to those of other groups or races” whereas “stereotypy” means “a pathological symptom of mental or nervous disorder showing itself in continuous repetition of seemingly senseless words and syllables, or of certain posture’s and actions”. Drever (1972).
Religious bigotry refers to “an obsessive belief and practice system whereby a person or group of people has strong and unreasonable opinion and will not listen to or accept any contrary views or religious opinions of anyone who disagrees”. Hornby (1976).
Racism or Racialism refers to “any set of beliefs that organic genetically transmitted differences (whether real or imagined) between human groups are intrinsically associated with the presence or absence of certain socially relevant abilities or characteristics, hence that such differences are a legitimate basis of invidious distinctions between groups socially defined as races” Berghe (1967).
Ethnic Group is a parallel term for race “which is often socially defined on the basis of cultural characteristics superimposed on perceived physical traits defined by the group and/or is defined by other groups as different.... by virtue of innate... inherited on genetically induced behavioural patterns”. A. H. Coleman-cited in – Krauss (1976) and this naturally leads us to Dominant and Minority groups – which are the remote and immediate causes of violence, terrorism and wars.
A Dominant Group is “one within a national state whose distinctive culture and/or physiognomy is established as superior in the society and which treats differentially/unequally other groups in the society with other cultures or physiognomy “Marden and Meyer (1968), and correspondingly;
A Minority Group is a “culturally or physically distinctive and self–conscious social aggregate, with hereditary membership and a high degree of endogamy, which is subject to political, economic or social discrimination by a dominant segment of an environing political society” Williams (1964).
Analytically therefore, the recurrent decimal in all these definitions is that racists are misguided, self-opinionated and neurotic people who need ego trips or massage to suppress their feelings of inadequacy, otherwise termed INFERIORITY COMPLEX.
Ethnology and Ethnography do not support apartheid, religious bigotry or racism. For want of space and time, there are two traditions in ethnic relations and socio-anthropological studies, which this existential author subscribes to
(i) the psychosocial orientation, which is phenomenological, and
(ii) the socio-cultural orientation, which is existential.
Both form the contrasting research perspectives that most scholars patronize.
However they should complement each other. Individuals are born “tabula raza” - a clean slate! It is parents and relevant others that write on and crowd this slate with parochial traditions! No child hates another child! Hatred is a learned behaviour! So many films and dramas portray this. Individual prejudice comes mainly from the internalization of the prejudicial norms of one’s society. A case in point is the historical origin of Hitler’s hatred for the Jews. A mistaken identity and maltreatment in his primary school days when he freely associated with Jewish children -–was the remote cause of anti-Semitism which he internationalized, followed by ‘German blood superiority’ he championed which eventually led to the two world wars he engineered!
The adult populations manufactured Black-White lopsided relations in U.S.A, and segregationist policies among/towards the indigenes; Red Indians, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans. These racist or apartheid concepts and their implementations were neither by teenagers nor by adolescents. South Africa’s multiracial society and apartheid system have been studied as the ultimate in structured inequality while Hawaii and Brazil as multiracial societies with a low degree of racism. Why can’t we replicate the latter form of ethnic relations in all countries of the world? The choice is ours!
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT:
It is interesting to note what anthropologists, psychiatrists, sociologists and psychologists have concluded after varying researches into various aspects of child-rearing practices all over the world. Collumb and Valatin (1970), French psychiatrists, concluded thus:
“The social changes attendant on modernization cause far reaching disturbances in traditional family organization and bring about alterations in the relationship of the child to the family group. Love and authority are no longer provided for the child by the communal group of the whole family but (only) by the biological parents.... Are the parents able to take on these loving and disciplinary roles alone? Cut off from their extended family group on all sides, can they overcome their own problems and fears and make themselves ready to fulfill their new functions? How does the child experience these changes? Is it already possible to set out their pathological consequences? It is difficult to say; however, one may state that the number of maladjusted children, the number of adolescents with problems is growing considerably, especially in towns. The present generation will be followed by another which will have the same incidence of schizophrenia as in West” p. 127
This international Conference in South Africa in 2001 should address those fundamental questions. What this author offers is only a palliative/prophylactic recommendation. Before that however – we need to recall what Erikson (1972) and Kohlberg (1969) posited as the critical stages of moral development in teenagers and adolescents. These will help us formulate the cross-cultural harmonization this paper proposes.
In his “EIGHT AGES OF MAN”, Chap. 7 pp. 239-266; Erikson established eight sensitive developmental patterns that parents, teachers and relevant others must take advantage of, if children must grow up into mature, respectful and responsible citizens of the world. Correspondingly, in his “DEVELOPMENT OF MORAL CHARACTER AND MORAL IDEOLOGY” – a cognitive developmental approach – Lawrence Kohlberg of Harvard University posted six moral stages that teenagers pass through – namely: pre-moral, instrumental-hedonistic, role taking, law-and-order, autonomous-principle, and finally the universal-ethical-principle.
Time and space may not allow a detailed discussion of these stages. However, let it be known also that: Bandura & Walters, (1963) have their SOCIAL LEARNING AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH, while Goshin, (1969) has relevant topics in their HANDBOOK OF SOCIALIZATION THEORY AND RESEARCH; while Hoffman Martin, has his “Moral Development Theory” cited in Paul. H. Mussen (Ed.) CARMICHAEL’S MANUAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY (3rd Ed.)
All point to this one fact: That what we give or fail to give growing children, teenagers or adolescents form the base of all racial discriminations, hatred, fear and apartheid tendencies. There are no known genetic traits, or inherited behavioural patterns that warrant racial discrimination. The adult population manufactured, patented and marketed RACISM. Therefore, it remains their duty and urgent responsibility to dismantle and obliterate the consequences of their mischievous and xenophobic creations; apartheid, religious bigotry, anti-Semitism, Zionism and all other forms of racial inequalities that they breed!
The creator of the Universe did not input any racial inequalities in his created universe and beings. Nor did Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, even mention any scientific basis for racism. Politicians, warmongers, and demonic rulers who traded in human beings and monetary values invented racism based on their inferiority complexes, xenophobic reactions and vainglorious exploits. For how long must we all suffer for their mischief? The onerous duty of liberated minds, as exemplified by the participants at this United Nation’s Conference will come into sharper focus as we deliberate on the therapeutic measures proposed by this paper.
CROSS-CULTURAL HARMONISATION
In the light of the foregone scientific references, this psychotherapist has developed two basic inter-ethnic and inter-racial compositions – spanning a period of thirty years and has labelled them “THE KENEZIAN CREED” and “THE LETTER TO TEACHERS OF HIS CHILDREN”. The pair is crucial re-orientation ploys to revolutionize the religious and educational climates of the world and subsequently ameliorate or slow down the incidence of/or the increase in racial tensions, religious fanaticism and ethnic cleansing.
“CROSS-CULTURAL” here is used as an adjective meaning “involving, or containing ideas or elements from two or more different cultures, while “HARMONIZE” to make something harmonious e.g. colours that harmonize well (i.e. together produce a pleasing effect) or the cottages harmonize well with the landscape. In music “harmonization” means to play or sing notes that accompany the main tune and produce harmony with the lead singer”. Hornby (1995) pp 279 & 544
From the above the therapeutic regimen for racialism and other ethnic stressful relationships lies in the Homo sapiens sapiens accepting that each culture must harmonize with the lead race; that is, the HUMAN RACE. If musicians can harmonize with the lead singer why are whites, blacks and yellows unable to harmonize? It is due to ignorance, petty jealousy, morbid fear of strangers and unbridled self-pride. An attempt must be made to de-emphasize religion which is the greatest harbinger of fanatical zeal to discriminate against and dominate others. MISINFORMATION or DISINFORMATION – also known as propaganda that completes the racial tones dictated by maniacal leaders, politicians and governments must be halted and reversed systematically.
The Kenezian Creed sifts the L.C.M and H.C.F. of the human race. Then it dresses them in philosophic, ethical and scientific language which harmonises with the main language of nature – WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS, WITH SAME CREATOR, SAME BLOOD AND PLASMA, SIMILAR ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY and WE INTER-MARRY AND PRODUCE SAME SPECIES. Of what value are our World Cups, Olympics and Arts Festivals, if at the end of the day we still discriminate and derogate others based simply on the colour of their skin, or eyes and or the texture of their hairs? Does emotion and motivation vary among the races of mankind? No, is the answer! Any man or woman can learn the language of the ethnic groups they are born into and mingle with; hence, English, French, Swahili, German and some other languages have gained international appeal and usage. In the like manner, let’s amplify those areas of cognition, memory and recall that unify the races rather than propagate those minor differences that separate and antagonise us.
In education, any child irrespective of skin colour, genetic endowment and child rearing practices can become a genius in nuclear physics, computer science, acrobatics and, music. There has never been, nor there ever be a scientific proof of the superiority of one race to another. These xenophobic rationalizations are ego defense mechanisms that emanate from depraved and demented minds and must not be allowed to drag us to another world war. A word is enough for the wise. The systematic incorporation of the tenets of the following compositions into primary school/educational curricula will eradicate racism worldwide:
THE KENEZIAN CREED
Nuggets of Wisdom for the Unification of all Belief Systems.
1. I am of age; therefore, I affirm that I exist! I am “ME”, you are “YOU” and we are “US”. I affirm that I am a Created Being living in the present, hoping to come to an end as other creatures I have observed, do come to a definitive end.
2. I therefore know that all finite creatures obey some natural laws that govern existence. I affirm that these laws are also eternal and like every other law, must have a Giver. I deduce therefore that there are commensurate sanctions for any deliberate violation of these laws.
3. When I observe the heavens and landscapes, hills and valleys, rivers and oceans, sunrise and sunset, equinoxes and eclipses, I am certain that this Eternal Law-giver is Great and Powerful in all respects and possesses Superhuman Intelligence, Power and Control over all of us?
4. When I inspect living and non-living beings, their beauty and variety, their numbers and their sizes, especially their modes of survival in varying environments, and particularly their ability to reproduce their kinds, I confess that this Eternal Law-giver must be Beautiful, Loving and All-Creative.
5. I respect “IT” in all “ITS” creations while admiring in particular those that move about. For I do realise that I share the traits they have; we all have the same basic structures, we survive by performing similar functions, have similar feelings and produce comparable results. I cannot but bow in reverence and worship this Almighty Being, the Eternal Law-Giver who sustains everything on this planet.
6. This Almighty Being set all things in motion. “IT” directs their courses and life spans, keeps them in space and time, now and always. And because there are no accidents in nature when “IT’S” laws are strictly adhered to, I attest to the fact that “IT” is the greatest GOOD; All-knowing, All-caring and Ever Present Being.
7. To “IT” be all my respect, obedience and loyalty, as I extend my hands of love and brotherhood to all Human Beings, co-heirs and offspring of this Almighty Creator and Father of all.
Therefore, my creed concisely is this:
• THE UNIVERSE IS MY COUNTRY AND INHERITANCE,
• (b) ALL MANKIND, MY BLOOD RELATIVES AND EQUALS,
• (c) SEEKING THE TRUTH, LIVING THE TRUTH AND DOING GOOD AT ALL TIMES – MY RELIGION.
My 50th Birthday gift to Mankind.
Composed, Revised and Ratified between 1970-1998
DR KENEZ DANMBAEZUE’S PLEAS TO EVERY TEACHER OF HIS CHILDREN
*(Each paragraph/plea can be used as the theme of Morning Assembly Talks)
Dear Teacher,
• Your job is an onerous one, commendable by both God and man,
• My child will look up to you as a role model, a mirror to view the world;
• You will have to father him for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week and 35 weeks per year,
• That’s long enough to make or mar his future, his classmates and that of this country.
Stanza 1:
• Teach him to look around and admire the beauty in nature, himself inclusive,
• Let him know that for every child he sees, there are two parents – a father and a mother;
• So for the birds he sees, trees, animals, hills, rivers, sun, daylight, night and moonlight,
• There is but One Almighty Father, who created and takes care of us all on a daily basis.
Stanza 2:
• Teach him to trust and obey The Almighty Creator with worship in humility,
• And to love every other being, as we all are sons and daughters of the same Creator;
• Let him realise that when it rains, it’s for every one: plants, animals and man,
• The Creator’s kindness and benevolence does not choose those to hate or love.
Stanza 3.
• Teach him that for every lie he tells, he will tell ten more lies to cover it up,
• And for ten lies, he needs one hundred more lies – that is foolishness;
• So let him learn that truth is golden, more precious than wealth and riches,
• Knowledge, wisdom and fame are the rewards earned by truthful people.
Stanza 4:
• In school, let him love and respect his classmates and fight to protect the weaker ones,
• Allow him to taste bitter and sweet things; and to combine laughter and suffering;
• That way you will have prepared him to deal with wicked and honest human beings,
• Thereby teaching him to differentiate good from evil and to do good all his life.
Stanza 5:
• Teach him that lying, cheating and stealing produce criminals and rogues,
• Teach him that a kobo earned is better than a hundred won by lottery;
• It’s better to go hungry than enjoy a meal prepared with stolen money,
• Or eat crumbs of bread among finest friends than a whole loaf among dishonest men.
Stanza 6:
• Teach him that a passage studied, understood and memorised,
• Is far better than one simply crammed and repeated like a parrot;
• The former leads to ingenuity, resourcefulness and creativity,
• The latter to imitative behaviour, and lack of self-confidence;
• Teach him that it’s more honourable to fail an examination,
• Than to copy, cheat or use “expo” methods to pass any examination.
Stanza 7:
• Finally teach him that it is better to be neither too poor nor too rich,
• Than to become wealthy by stealing, deceit and cutting corners;
• The former leads to contentment, peace of mind and long life,
• The latter to arrogance, greed, restlessness and sudden death;
• Explain to him what “Honesty is the best policy” really means,
• And the practical implications of the saying: “More haste, less speed”.
Postscript:
My Dear Teacher
• You’ll have to believe and practise these yourself,
• Before you can teach them to my son and his mates;
• But be assured that if you succeed in this assignment,
• You will be a hero and the father of heroes and heroines;
• And that’s what our dear country needs most.
May God guide your endeavours!
My 53rd Birthday Gift to Humanity and all Educationists,
Inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s & Gestation Period: 1997-2001
RESUME, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The etiological origin of racism is ethnocentric megalomania best exemplified by Adolf Hitler’s xenophobic ideas. “Xenophobia” as defined by Drever (1972) is “a morbid fear of strangers”, and Hornby (1995) concerns by defining it as “an intense dislike or fear of strangers or people from other countries”... “excessive patriotism can lead to xenophobia” – he concluded p. 1385.
“Racism or racialism” van den Berghe (1967) affirms, “are beliefs (not facts) that organic genetically transmitted differences (real or imagined) exist between social groups” which he concluded were false. There has never been any existential or scientific proof that a Caucasian is superior to Negroid or Mongoloid specie of the human race. Racism is puerile and futile!
Professor M. Nesturkh, a Russian anthropologist has a 133-page hardbound book, with over 100 black and white and coloured pictures - entitled THE RACES OF MANKIND. In the preface, Professor N. N. Cheboksarov, a Doctor of History, and a Miklukho-Maklai Prize Winner, opens up thus:
The problem of the races of mankind is one of the most important in anthropology, the science that studies the natural history of man with all the variations due to age, sex, and geographical factors. The races of mankind are, in actual fact, geographical (or territorial) variations, historically conditioned, of a single physical type-MAN.
The writings of the founders of Marxism-Leninism contain many valuable statements on such problems as the connection between the origin of races and the natural geographical conditions of life of primitive man; the distant ancestors of the present–day peoples, the gradual obliteration of racial differences in the course of historical development, the racial mixtures that make up modern nations and the absolute invalidity of racism.
A correct conception of the races of mankind is of particularly great political and scientific importance today, in the period of the collapse of the colonial system and the unparalleled development of the struggle for national liberation by the dependent and colonial peoples. The ideologists of imperialism, in their effort to provide a basis for class, national and colonial oppression, have advanced the false “theory” of the physical and mental inequality of races, or the existence of “higher” and “lower” races, of races that are capable and those that are incapable of independent, social, economic and cultural development.
Racism is closely bound up with reactionary nationalism and chauvinism. The Programme of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, adopted by the Twenty-Second Party Congress, lays special stress on the fact that nationalistic prejudice and the survivals of former national discord constitute the sphere in which resistance to social progress may be the longest, fiercest, most stubborn and most implacable. The misanthropic inventions of the racists stand in direct contradiction to the data provided by anthropology”. Pp 5 & 6
All scientists agree with the learned Russian Professor and Prize Winner! Moreover, Professor M. Nesturukh, himself concludes his introduction to the book thus:
“The author realises the difficulties attaching to the task he has undertaken and will be satisfied if his readers obtain from his book a general idea of the concept of races and their origin and a conviction of the unscientific nature of racism”. P 10.
It is the conclusion of this paper that only intellectual pygmies and anthropological misfits can, and do propagate racism in ethnic or religious relations. But for the fact that this is a scientific paper, passages in the Torah, Bible, Koran and the Bhagavad-Gita would have been used to substantiate the stupidity of racialism and the demonic possession of all racists. They are all adenescents!
Suffice it to recommend the following:
i. That all racists be subjected to a psychiatric evaluation. It is possible that they have congenital deficiencies that warrant their schizophrenia fantasies.
ii. That participants at this conference devise means and modalities for appealing to religious leaders of all shades, colours and faith to repudiate discriminatory sermons, doctrines or catechesis in their religious worship.
iii. That all film makers and drama writers expunge sentences or scenes depicting superiority or inferiority in all their products. On the other hand they must encourage scriptwriters to douse the embers of hatred, violence and ethnic jealousies in their productions e.g. GUESS, WHO’S COMING TO DINNER.
iv. That musicians review their lyrics and emulate the consortium of international stars that gave us the famous song: WE ARE THE WORLD. In like manner, let all intelligent people all over the world stand up to be counted among music lovers who appreciate that orchestras and choirs need soprano, alto, tenor and bass to harmonise the lead instrument or singer. So also should white, black and yellow races blend or harmonise the leading HUMAN RACE.
v. All newly established families must make conscious efforts to give their offspring a better deal or lease of life rather than feed them the same nepotic ideas or prejudices their own parents condemned to feed on during their growing years
vi. Re-education in all nursery, kindergarten and primary schools, must eliminate
segregations based on colour, class or creed. Each stanza or paragraph of the Kenezian letter to all liberated educationist can be used to conduct morning assemblies.
vii. National constitutions should incorporate sections that make it a crime to discriminate against any citizen, guest or stranger in one’s native land. Moreover, national prizes may be awarded to those adjudged to have demonstrated the tenets of the Kenezian Creed practically in their daily living.
Signed.........................................................…………………
Dr. J. Kenechukwu Danmbaezue, D. Psych., FACRS
Consultant Clinical Psychologist/
Existential Family Therapist &
Professor of Clinical Psychometrics.
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Letter to Teachers of Children World-wide”. International Education Project, Kenez Health Klinik C 82, Federal Housing Estate, Enugu.
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THE CHAIRMAN ORGANISING COMMITTEE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON RACISM
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
Thro: Mazi Okolie Animba
Consultant Counselling Psychologist/Dean, Student’s Affairs
Enugu State University of Science and Technology.
SUBMISSION AND PRESENTATION OF A CRUCIAL GUEST PAPER – “ A CROSS-CULTURAL HARMONISATION OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT – A Panacea for Racism”.
I congratulate all the initiators, organisers and sponsors of this all-important conference. A 37-year-old widow patient of mine threatened that I would only meet her corpse on return from South Africa if I abandoned her for it. I had to make o choice. My humble submission is a prelude to a scientific research I am conducting at present that might span ten to twenty years. Experientially, one can create a conducive environment where children of all races, ethnic groups and varying shades of belief systems, educational backgrounds and socio-political parentage can be reared together devoid of segregation, discrimination and nepotism. If such an experiment is feasible, research scientists could draw from it informed decisions and conclusions based on facts obtained from a longitudinal study. I do not subscribe to haphazard or incidental research papers meant for publications only or merely for attendance at conferences. Please accept this paper as my contribution to the theme you have chosen this year and expect a more detailed paper with statistical diagrams, graphs and tables subsequently.
God guide your deliberations, Yours sincerely, Signed this 19th day of August 2001
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
4 Aug 2016
Tyran Sutton black history month
4 Aug 2016
Testicle dysfunctions for life RAPE
of Nanking times Trillion
4 Aug 2016
Despite the fact that THIS
THERAPEUTIC PAPER RECEIVED A STANDING OVATION that included NELSON MANDELA, it
has never seen the light of day at either UNO nor WHO, UNESCO or UNICEF!
Unfortunately this panacea for obliterating RACISM, XENOPHOBIA & ETHNOCENTRISM has perennially & deliberately ignored by the TOOTHLESS BULLDOG; The United Nations Organisation, may be IT SHOULD HAVE AUTHORED BY A CAUCASIAN professor!
The first world is yet to purge itself of apartheid and ethnocentrism and genetical idiosyncrasies! * ( 2016 commentary by the author;) *
+++Professor Jideofo Kenechukwu DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc.
@ Enugu, BIAFRA, 11th August 2016 @ 1730 HRS GMT.
Unfortunately this panacea for obliterating RACISM, XENOPHOBIA & ETHNOCENTRISM has perennially & deliberately ignored by the TOOTHLESS BULLDOG; The United Nations Organisation, may be IT SHOULD HAVE AUTHORED BY A CAUCASIAN professor!
The first world is yet to purge itself of apartheid and ethnocentrism and genetical idiosyncrasies! * ( 2016 commentary by the author;) *
+++Professor Jideofo Kenechukwu DANMBAEZUE, D.Sc.
@ Enugu, BIAFRA, 11th August 2016 @ 1730 HRS GMT.
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The Secretary Generals of UNO, WHO
etc etc feel that A BLACK AFRICAN should not be THE RIGHT PROFESSOR to
enunciate this FINAL PANACEA TO RACISM,.....demonstrates the most whites are
CONGENITALLY RACISTS, XENOPHOBISTS AND ETHNOCENTRIC AT BIRTH or learnt it as a
DOMINANT MENTALITY. IN SCHOOLS AND SOCIOPOLITICAL MEETINGS.
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+razA
syed1 WHOEVER SENT THIS POST OR COMMENTARY IS A CONFIRMED RACIST
..... what has it got in common with the CROSS CULTURAL HARMONIZATION under
consideration.... I WONDER.....
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Religion,
which is superstition sanctioned by the state, is actually an addiction to
man-made doctrines and dogmas invented, patented and copyrighted by a few
demagogues.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
The Creator has hidden so much from our intellectual faculties that to date we are still unravelling those He is allowing humanity to glimpse at through divine dreams, intuitions, inspirations and revelations to devout souls! Do you want to have supernatural knowledge mediated by spiritual faculties of seeing, feeling, sensing and caring for others? Look inwards, for the kingdom of God is inside you, not outside as many preachers tell you. No one ever got eternal bliss by keeping the commandments of men. It is given to altruistic seekers of that Divine Guidance in the affairs of mankind, which many yearn for but do not know where, when and how to find it. Search for it in this book!
The creator gave humans some of his powers and knowledge for recreating the material universe for the mutual benefits of all his created beings but today many use his gifts to perpetrate evil. Either by design or demonic manipulation, the obverse is the case; the first datum that every living thing recognises is that someone put it here and caters for its welfare. Dogs respect and fight in defence of their owners. Every pet realises that it is loved and taken care of by someone who has value for its existence. It is human who pride themselves of being rational beings that do not recognise, respect or realise that all of us have a single owner. It is absurd! Some believe there is an Almighty Creator who provides for each creature on daily basis, some assert that he has turned his back on us due to our congenital wickedness and cruel ways, while others simply deny his existence!
This is my summation of the problem; “Religion was/is a superstitious search by humanity for its origin, existence, meaning and relevance before the scientific era. The search was led by acclaimed sages among the elders of a community who defined its theories and practices. It is later ratified and recommended for legislation and implementation by state apparatus by convincing stratagem or coercion by politico-religious leaders. Thereafter, it is fine tuned and administered by ordained priests and priestesses who hand it down along ancestral lineages from one generation of lukewarm adherents, fanatics and mystics to another. Gradually, strong personalities emerge claiming divine appointment and so pull strong followers who idolise them as role models with supernatural powers. This obsession confirms them as beacons of adulation and finally leads to full scale idolatry.
INTRODUCTION
TO INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul. There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism. These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal, inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors, explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking. Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised, respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from heaven’?
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul. There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism. These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal, inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors, explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking. Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised, respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from heaven’?
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