#Black Lives Matter began in 2013 but only recently attained great national popularity and prominence with the death of George Floyd, and allegedly on his behalf. Although the name indicates that black lives really matter to this cause, it has not actually helped black folks in the least and is not actually about the welfare of black people at all. In fact, it has arguably greatly harmed black people by bringing in violent outsiders to stir up and lead the crowd – and destroy black neighborhood stores and businesses. However, as the BLM “onion” was peeled back, it was learned, through its founders own words, that the core group was made up of self-proclaimed Marxists. Their mission is – through anarchy and violence – to destroy the nation as founded and install a radically different government in its place. #Black Lives Matter, though originally believed by most people as being a movement working for police reform and lifting up actual black people, became recognized by many as a Marxist political power grab. But as the “onion” has been peeled back still further, it has become evident the #Black Lives Matter movement goes much deeper in its aims and is far darker even than its Marxist political agenda. It is rather a deeply occultic religious group “wearing political garb.”
Indeed, as we listen to the founders and leaders of #Black Lives Matter we discover it is only tangentially a social and political movement. It is guided and informed by the dogma, practices, and dark rituals of an occult religion called Yoruba/Odu Ifa, which originates with the Yoruba people in Western Africa. One of the major tenets and practices of Odu Ifa is divination – calling on and calling up the supposed spirits of the dead and engaging in ancestor worship. Odu Ifa is also the religion of Beyonce, which is exposed by Christian YouTube apologist, nefernitty. She, nefernitty, demonstrates, in her 15 minute exposé titled “Beyonce- Black is King – 10+ Times She Celebrates Yoruba/Ifa” that the religion of Ode Ifa is central in Beyonce’s “Black is King” video. (Beyonce is far from the only celebrity that is deeply involved in dark occultic religion and religious practices. Sadly, the young people that follow these superstar celebrities are probably far more aware of occultic ideas and symbolism in the music they listen to than they are of the Christianity of their parents and grandparents. And their parents and grandparents probably have only a vague understanding, if any at all, of the “spiritual” ideas these stars are foisting upon the young.)
It should be noted that, for the moment, we still have freedom of religion and freedom of worship in this nation, so celebrity actors, singers, entertainers and their followers, as well as the leaders of BLM, have the freedom to believe and practice as they wish. However, the right to believe and worship as one chooses is not the same thing as affirming that all beliefs are equally true or valid. Some beliefs are false and some even dangerous.
One of the Odu Ifa founders of #BlackLiveMatter is Patrisse Cullors, who raised quite a stir amongst conservatives and evangelicals when it was revealed that she and other leaders in the organization are trained and dedicated Marxists. More recently, the deeply occultic religious underpinnings of the group’s core began coming to light. Patrisse Cullors was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness but was drawn to know more about her ancestors and ancestor worship, which led her away from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society to a more occult form of religious belief and practice. In “A Prayer for the Runner by Patrisse Cullors,” Patrisse and co-cofounder and Odu Ifa adherent Melina Abdullah, engage in an explanatory discussion of their religious faith and how integral it is to what they do in BLM1Beginning at around the 19:42 mark. Patrisse explains how she was drawn away from the JWs and inexorably drawn to the West African spirituality of Odu Ifa2at the 26:00 mark:
You know I was always someone who almost obsessed about ancestors, Black ancestors in particular, and I wasn’t raised with honoring ancestors necessarily. I was raised Jehovah’s Witness with a little bit of that. As I got older and sort of feel like I was missing something. Ancestor, ancestral worship became really important, and as you know, the Fowler Museum is so important because it has, it has a bunch of West African traditional, um, pieces inside that museum, and it was one of the first museums that I went to that was speaking directly to African spirituality.
Patrisse and Melina spend a fair amount of time discussing calling up, calling on, and enjoying a close fellowship with spirits whom they believe are spirits of deceased Blacks. This, by the way, is divination or necromancy and is expressly forbidden in Leviticus 19:31:
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
Necromancy is the pagan practice of allegedly communicating with the dead (We believe these “spirits” they commune with are not spirits of dead people, but evil spirit beings assuming the identity of the dead) These women have become mediums and necromancers! A few moments earlier, Melina spoke to her practice3about the 25:36 mark of calling up the spirits of the dead:
…become very intimate with the spirits that we call on regularly. Right, like, each of them seems to have a different presence and personality. You, know I laugh a lot with Waukesha, you know. And I didn’t meet her in her body, right, I met her through this work.” (Waukesha Wilson who was found dead in a Los Angeles jail cell in 2017)
As Melina noted, she did not meet Waukesha Wilson when she was living but built a “very intimate” relationship with a spirit representing itself as Waukesha Wilson sometime after she died. During the conversation with Melina, Patrisse described the offerings they make to the spirits with whom they are communicating. Patrisse Cullors wants the viewers to be aware of how central it is in their rituals to call out the names of the deceased.430:00 mark:
“It’s a, it is a very important practice, hashtags are for us are way more than a hashtag. It is, um, literally, almost resurrecting a spirit so they can work through us to get the work that we need to get done.”
They are calling on, having intimate relationships with, and actually being indwelt by spirits, “so they can work through us to get the work that we need to get done.”
One might argue that their private religious experience, worship practices and core beliefs are theirs – and they are entitled to them – but these issues have no bearing on the movement called #BlackLivesMatter. That might be true IF those beliefs and practices were not directly tied to #BLM. However, this religious belief and these practices are the very foundation of BLM. A #BlackLivesMatter “protest” is a religious ceremony dedicated to and guided by the spirits with whom they are in contact. As Melina Abdullah describes it524:30 Mark
We do feel like, when we say the names, right, so we speak their names, we say her name, say their names, we do that all the time. You kind of invoke that spirit and then those spirits actually become present with you. Right?”
A few minutes later Melina Abdullah picks this back up633:30 mark:
When we come out into the streets, and we pray, you know, the first thing that we do when we hear of a murder is we come out. We pray. We pour libations, we build with the community there, where the person’s life was stolen. And it took almost a year for me to realize that this movement is much more than a racial and social justice movement; at its core it’s a spiritual movement.
Patrisse Cullors fully agrees with Melina, as a few moments later she says, “I believe so many of them work through us.” So, when we see these women at the beginning of a “protest,” practicing what seems to be simply mentioning names of those they believe were unjustly killed by police (who are described as hunting down and killing Blacks), they are actually worshipping, invoking and calling on these spirits to guide and enable them and the protestors. Offerings (libations) are made to those spirits in the process! But no one has to take our word for it, as you can hear this from their own lips. In “The Fight for Black Lives is a Spiritual Movement” By: Hebah Farrag. He reports:
On June 2, 2020, Black Lives Matter’s Los Angeles Chapter sponsored an action in front of Mayor Eric Garcetti’s house, demanding reductions in the city’s funding of police. The action, what many would call a protest, began like a religious ceremony. Melina Abdullah, chair of the Department of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and co-founder of BLM-LA, opened the event explaining that while the movement is a social justice movement, it is first and foremost a spiritual movement.
She led the group in a ritual: the reciting of names of those taken by state violence before their time—ancestors now being called back to animate their own justice:
“George Floyd. Asé. Philandro Castille. Asé. Andrew Joseph. Asé. Michael Brown. Asé. Erika Garner. Asé. Harriet Tubman. Asé. Malcom X [sic]. Asé. Martin Luther King. Asé.”
As each name is recited, Dr. Abdullah poured libations on the ground as the group of over 100 chanted “Asé,” a Yoruba term often used by practitioners of Ifa, a faith and divination system that originated in West Africa, in return. This ritual, Dr. Abdullah explained, is a form of worship.
Please note that BLM “is first and foremost a spiritual movement” and the chanting, pouring of libations (liquid offerings), “is a form of worship.” #BLM has 16 chapters, which fits in nicely to the core teaching of Odu Ifa on the importance of the number 16:
According to oral tradition, the 16 odu ifa were 16 heavenly prophets that came down to Earth and revealed themselves to Orunmila, the prophet of Ifa religion. Orunmila is also known as the deity of wisdom that was present during the creation and allocation of destiny for all human beings7Ifa Religion; 16 Odu Ifá Meaning
But there is more:
Each odu contains information associated with the good and the bad. It provides guidance on how to manifest the good and how to keep negative disruptive forces known as Ajogun at bay.
It is through the divinatory processes that the odu currently shaping our lives is revealed to us. This sacred act of divination (performed by an experienced Babalawo or Iyanifa) is what provides the opportunity that allows us to know ourselves better. Furthermore, it allows us the opportunity to know how we can live and maintain a positive life for all. 8Ifa Religion; 16 Odu Ifá Meaning
These are the major Odu, and then there are the minor Odu, of which there are 240. Combined there are 256 odu Ifa in the Ifa corpus which is 16×16 cubed:
256 odu Ifa refers to the complete collection of the Ifa corpus. There are a total of 256 odu that make up the foundation of the Ifa religion. The previously mentioned 16 principle or major odu ifa are considered the pillars of the Ifa corpus. The remaining 240 minor odu ifa are derived from these 16 major odu. 9Ifa Religion; 256 Odu Ifá
It should be noted that many black, brown and white Americans who support BLM are, or consider themselves to be, Christian. Yet these tenets, practices, and occult rituals are deeply anti-Christian, and condemned in the Bible. Despite this, #BLM now has the allegiance of liberal and progressive, as well as some evangelical, churches. In addition, they enjoy huge financial backing from major American corporations, sporting franchises, liberal print and social media, and quite a few elected officials. In addition to monetary backing, the trademark of their spiritual movement has been painted on the streets of New York by the mayor, emblazoned on basketball courts and football fields, with the very names of the spirits to be called on stitched on the jerseys and stenciled on helmets of players. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being funneled into the funding of this religious cult by corporations, organizations and even famed retired basketball super star, Michael Jordan, who has pledged to donate 100 million dollars over the next ten years.10The Various Faces of Black Lives Matter
The Spirits are About to Speak
In the classic Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, Bullwinkle J. Moose would lead into a commercial with that famous phrase, “Eenie Meenie Chili Beanie, the spirits are about to speak.” Rocky would ask, “Are they friendly spirits?” That is a question we need to ask as well. #BLM is, as they put it, “first and foremost a spiritual movement” for which the spirits they have called upon are about to speak at their many protests. What sort of spirits are they which cause mayhem, pillaging, looting, burning down businesses and homes and killing or throwing lethal objects at police officers, as well as brazenly calling for the death of police officers throughout the nation? What sort of spirits would cause the injury and even murder of people who would disagree with their politics or methods? These are certainly not Bullwinkle’s “friendly spirits,” but we do believe the spirits behind BLM are actual spirit beings, the “evil spirits” condemned in the Bible, obviously the “negative disruptive forces known as Ajogun” – demons – referenced above in Odu Ifa’s own literature.
It should be apparent to all that these very violent though supposedly “peaceful protests” have absolutely nothing to do with racism. It is a religious battle, which few Christians are prepared for and even less unbelievers understand. This is a spiritual battle for the souls of those living in this nation:
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12)Ω
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End Notes
| ↑1 | Beginning at around the 19:42 mark |
|---|---|
| ↑2 | at the 26:00 mark |
| ↑3 | about the 25:36 mark |
| ↑4 | 30:00 mark |
| ↑5 | 24:30 Mark |
| ↑6 | 33:30 mark |
| ↑7, ↑8 | Ifa Religion; 16 Odu Ifá Meaning |
| ↑9 | Ifa Religion; 256 Odu Ifá |
| ↑10 | The Various Faces of Black Lives Matter |
And IFA shall mend their broken world.
We honor and we worship our Ancestors and the GODS of Africa without apology or shame.
Why should I worship the GOD of the racist, savage and inhumane slave master. How dare you attempt to demonize and discredit African Spirituality.
Jerry Falwell Jr.!
Clean up your own house before you cast stones and create your prejudice white supremacist self serving narrative.
Recognize and atone for your sins and inhumanity committed in the name of your GOD before casting stones.
Your approach to comparative religion is biased, demeaning and dangerous.
Repent of the devils you worship before it’s too late.
Jesus. His blood saved us when He died and rose 3 days later. Jesus destroyed your gods. Jesus is lord, and he created and loves you! It’s good news. Repent and follow Him. My Father is awesome!
Sangotola: Lucifer is sending you this message:You better like heat because it’s mighty hot where you are going
Sangotola: By biblical definition you are a child of the devil . I hope you like heat because it’s mighty hot where you are going. Prepare yourself to meet God’s eternal wrath!
I knew someone who let one of the voodoo gods take control.
Someone asked the god if he knew who Jesus Christ was and he said,
“He’s the One who made me.”
That is not surprising to me. Demons are well aware of who Jesus is. We have examples Scripture like Matthew 8:29-31:
Also, Acts 19:13-16:
Demons are angels who rebelled and are well aware not only of Who Jesus is but that they will also be judged in the future and eternally separated from God.
Midwest out of touch.
There isn’t a hatian, cuban, brasillian any other group that doesn’t understand BLM is a Soros based lie. Please don’t include my cultural ancestors ( Yoruba ) into the destruction of the American black man or American people. Those devils are tied to the illuminati and are just using the Afican American in a divide and conquer skeem.
All things come to light. This is not spirituality, this is the conjuring of demon entities for the purpose of deceit and trickery. This is evil and a lie, not love or grace or mercy.
It is not of the light.
GET BEHIND ME SATAN, YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE! I HOLD YOU UNDER MY SHOE. In Jesus name, Amen.
Thank you for this article..helpful to understand the rioters behavior: wild, uncontrolled, screeching, almost super-human strength, screaming nonsensical thoughts, etc… undeterred by physical restraints of police….
Yes, it is demonic! They are unleashing demons into these crowds of rioters through their worship of satan.
Such utter darkness!
As a black person (and African) I absolutely agree and very appreciative of the information, and your boldness and obedience to Jesus.
One little thing, man’s ways are far from perfect, human controlled systems should and do change over time (look at history), if with a lot of pushing. The Bible mentions injustices and they should not go unpunished or ignored. To help the black people in America who have turned to these spirits because of their distress and pain, you should also reveal to them to who is the true judge that they may repent. With us our hearts need healing first before God steps in. We should be trusting in him first. Bless.
You mean Zeus? Zeus made no one, but racist bigots such as yourself!
This is some pretty wild stuff. Most of it seems conjecture. What is the real evidence that they participate in this to the extent that you report?
I appreciate your question but there is very little “conjecture” on our part. We quoted from their online videos where they describe what they believe, what the practices mean, their calling on the spirits to help them. The links are in the article and we have indicated the approximate starting point. It is an occult religion engaged in political revolution.
The white churches are awfully silent about police BRUTALITY. The white churches have ZERO MORAL, CHRISTIAN GROUND to say anything about the BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT.
Again, Ansath, it would be helpful if evidence to support the claim was put forth. The actual statistics seem to demonstrate a higher instance of whites dying at the hands of police than Blacks. A scholar with a Master of Public Administration and a Master of Criminal Justice from a top-25 school, who requested to remain anonymous collected these statistics during his downtime in 2020 while working on his Master of Criminal Justice:
Blacks commit 53 percent of murders and 60 percent or robberies despite being only 13 percent of the population, meaning that they are over 400 percent as likely to commit the worst violent crimes as the average American; one would expect the police killings of civilians to be roughly commensurate with the offender data. In fact, blacks are possibly disproportionately less likely to be shot by police, if there is any disparity at all. For every 10,000 black people arrested for violent crime, 3 are killed; for every 10,000 white people arrested for violent crime, 4 are killed (“Expanded Homicide Data Table 43”).
Miller et al. (2017) concluded, “Ratios of admitted and fatal injury due to legal police intervention per 10,000 stops/arrests did not differ significantly between racial/ethnic groups” (p. 27). Fryer (2019) found, “after controlling for suspect demographics, officer demographics, encounter characteristics, suspect weapon, and year fixed effects, black are 27.4 percent less likely to be shot at by police relative to nonblack, non-Hispanics” (p. 1214).
Note: Fryer’s “[27.4% lower likelihood of blacks being shot] coefficient is measured with considerable error and is not statistically significant” (Fryer, 2019, p. 1214). The statistically significant result is that, “on the most extreme use of force—officer-involved shootings— we are unable to detect any racial differences either in the raw data or when accounting for controls.” (Fryer, 2019, p. 1258).
Johnson et al. (2019) “Did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime” (p. 15880). James et al. (2016) concluded, “Officers were slower to shoot armed Black suspects than armed White suspects, and they were less likely to shoot unarmed Black suspects than unarmed White suspects.” (p. 457)
Streeter (2019) found, “The racial disparity in the rate of lethal force is most likely driven by higher rates of police in the contact among African American rather than racial differences circumstances of the interaction and officer bias in the application of lethal force” (p. 1124).
According to the Washington Post, police fatally shot 19 unarmed white suspects and 9 unarmed black suspects (1/10th of 1 percent of all black homicides) in 2019; in 2018, police fatally shot 32 unarmed white suspects and 38 unarmed black suspects (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018). In 2018, 7,407 blacks were murdered (52.4% of all murders) and 6,088 whites were murdered (43.1% of all murders) (“Expanded Homicide Data Table 2).
Focusing on 1/10th of 1 percent of the problem is not just asinine: it is criminally negligent at best, and it is more likely an intentional effort to trade lives for electoral and political success on the part of many on the left.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation (2019). “Expanded Homicide Data Table 43.” Retrieved from https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-43
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In fact, the BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT has its reason to be because of the RACISM OF WHITE EVANGELICALS.
This assertion assumes several things. First, is assume evangelicals are responsible for the behavior of all humans in the United States, regardless of ethnicity, religious beliefs or lack thereof and behavior. Somehow, in this accusation, if an atheist treats a Black badly, it is the fault of the evangelicals. I am not sure how you prove that or if anything other than making the accusation is important to you. #BLM was started in response to Michael Brown’s run in with police in MO. How were evangelicals involved in that? Inquiring minds want to know.
The Southern Baptist Convention just starts to acknowledge WHITE RACISM in the white churches.
This claim may simply be misinformed. The SBC has done that quite a while ago. An official resolution was drafted, approved and posted in 1995, titled, “Resolution On Racial Reconciliation On The 150th Anniversary Of The Southern Baptist Convention” Dr. Voddie Baucham discusses the ways he and others have benefited from their attempting to correct past harm to African Americans in his book Fault Lines: The Social Justice Movement and Evangelicalism’s Looming Catastrophe</em>
Trump lost the election because God had enough of white EVANGELICALS’ RACISM. You, people, are saying that God didn’t create BLACKS. And, none of you has any BIBLE sense to say that EVERYBODY DESCENDS FROM ADAM AND EVE.
It would be helpful if you would point out where we have stated or implied that “God didn’t create BLACKS.” We have always maintained the biblical teaching that all humans descended from Adam and Eve. This is also confirmed by science. The ethnicities occurred at the Tower of Babel, skin color as well as slight facial changes occurred over time. I am unaware of any in within the evangelical church who would hold a different view but am willing to see the evidence which supports your accusation.
It is unclear to me if you have read this article or an earlier one, “Black Lives are Sacred,” or in what way they are tied to Josh Duggar. The Scriptures are clear that all humans are sinners, i.e., we do not live to the holy standards God lays down. Some are redeemed sinners others are unredeemed sinners. Not all Christians are responsible for what some Christians may or may not do. Not all non-Christians are responsible for what some non-Christians do. For example, when Islamic terrorists slaughter, behead and kill non-Muslims or steal girls from African villages to use as sex slaves, should ALL Muslims be charged with the evil being done? As a ministry addressing false teaching we also speak out on issues of bad behavior on the part of Christians who are public figures like Josh Duggar as we did in 2015 with Josh Duggar, Mike Huckabee and Fodder for Progressives and Hypocrites, A Field Guide (Part 1). Holding his spiritually accountable is the task of the church he is part of and in this case the police and courts. It is unclear to me on what basis all Christians should be ruled guilty and held accountable for the behaviors of one. Perhaps you could clarify that for me.