Most of the people who are suppressing the Truth about the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" are white.
Pat Robertson, of the Christian Broadcasting Network, is white (Although I cannot prove that he read an earlier version of the manuscript on this web page which I mailed to the Christian Broadcasting Network in January, 1999).
Hershel Shanks, the editor of the "Biblical Archaeology Review", is white, although I cannot prove that he read any of the 'letters to the editor' that I sent to the "Biblical Archaeology Review" in late 1991, early 1992.
Most of the researchers on the Dead Sea Scrolls were and are, as I undestand it, white.
Ted Koppel, of ABC News "Nightline", is white; although I cannot prove that he ever read any of the letters that I sent to him in 1987, despite the fact that I have his signature on one return receipt and his secretary's (?) signature on maybe four or five return receipts.
The two or three editors of "Christianity Today" whom I have written to over the past 20 years were white.
The former president of the University of Notre Dame and the former chairman of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame were white--although I no longer have the return receipts to the letters I mailed to them in 1977.
And, as I recall, when I addressed the "Jesus Seminar" at the University of Notre Dame in 1987, everyone in the room was white.
Everyone.
So the question needs to be asked:
Is the denial, contradiction, disinterpretation and censorship of the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" a symptom of white racism?
Is the disinterpretation of the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead"--and, specifically, the denial of even the possibility that Mohammed was Elijah and John the Baptist 'raised from the dead' in fulfillment of the Prophecies of Malachi and Jesus (cf. Matthew 17:11)--a white supremacist doctrine?
Now, as previously stated, Jesus was murdered not because of any doctrine of 'vicarious atonement', but because of his Knowledge concerning the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" and the threat that that Knowledge posed to the power of the Sadducees and Pharisees. And my research on the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" constitutes precisely the same kind of a threat to institutional Christianity: for example, the "Jesus Seminar", the Christian Broadcasting Network, and the Roman church.
And, while all of this can be very easily looked upon as nothing more than a power struggle--these religious officials doing everything in their power merely to preserve their precious jobs--something much more sinister emerges when the subject of race is considered.
In the United States, for example--and it is the people of this country who it is my responsibility to inform of these Revelations and Prophecies--white skin is the color of wealth and power and privilege.
But one of the consequences of the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" is that skin color--and the power which accrues on the basis of skin color--is not a given: A person born with white skin in one life may very well be born with a darker skin or as an oriental in another life. Even worse, a person with white skin in this life may very well have been killed, tortured, or merely suffered severe discrimmination because of his skin color in a previous life.
Thus, to the ears of a white Ph.D. theologian, the Truth about the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" constitutes a double threat: First, it is an immediate threat to his power in this life; but, secondly, it also impresses upon him that he may very well not have, in a future life, the power associated with his white skin in this life. And this, of course, raises a whole series of issues about the historical relationship between the white race and the other races on this planet--or, in a not insignificant number of cases, might very well trigger deep and dark memories of horror, just beyond the range of consciousness, of experiences in previous lives in which he did not have white skin. (Thus, the denial of the Truth about the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" might very well be a psychological necessity for such an individual.)
Now, according to the Koran, Allah Created man out of "black moulded loam". (And, of course, there are black racists who have developed this Revelation into the "white devil" theory.) In other words, Adam--the first person Created with the consciousness of the Knowledge of Truth; that is, the consciousness which existed prior to "the Fall" and the creation of the normal human personality--was a black man. (And, if this is offensive to you, this civilization is in deep trouble.)
Thus, in addition to the difficulties already mentioned, there is also the question of whether, to the ears of a white Ph.D.theologian or religious official, it is this Revelation in the Koran which is so intensely offensive; and which, thus, proves that Mohammed could not have been John the Baptist and Elijah 'raised from the dead'; and, thus, that Islam is Evil or the Anti-Christ.
But the issue is even more complicated than that. Take, for example, the rider in First Seal of the Revelation of John...
What image do you have of the color of his skin? (It is the horse, by the way, which is white.)
As previously stated, the rider on the white horse corresponds to the reaching of man toward God--scientific and/or philosophical truth--and signifies Ishmael (cf. Genesis 21:20); whereas the white horse represents God reaching toward man in the conveying of Revealed Truth. But Hagar, Ishmael's mother, was black (Do you fully understand, by the way, that, if Abraham were 'raised from the dead" today, he may very well be able to say that he remembers that Hagar was black?); thus, it is just less than a certainty that Ishmael was black. (And, if this is offensive to you, human civilization is in deep trouble.)
I would argue, of course, that Paul's Greek pagan metaphysicalization of the Teaching of Jesus and disinterpretation of the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead" is, in fact, the "white-ification" of the Teaching of Jesus...
Thus, I would strongly urge the white religious and media officials in the United States--Look. You are the ones with the power in this country--to consider more carefully the long-term consequences of continuing to suppress the Truth about the Revelation and Doctrine of the "resurrection of the dead"...
Of continuing to suppress precisely that Truth which can also lead to the resolution of racial conflicts on this planet.
