Slaves on a Holy Plantation

Religion resists progress. It is a form of witchcraft with which man has become familiar. We know the rites, rituals, doctrines, and disciplines, and we have become dependent on them. They have become a manipulative, fear-based force that holds millions of people hostage. Psychologists call this " addictive codependency".
Religion is the "plantation" on which many people live as slaves or indentured servants. They assume they are better off in the care of the manipulators of their faith than in the freedom and grace God has provided for them. Many religious leaders and denominations act like the old Southern plantation owners, keeping their slave ignorant, convincing them that they are better off on the plantation. They have created doctrines that persuade them that they are better off living in bondage to an angry God rather than living in spiritual peace with their Emancipator. The emancipator of the American slaves was Abraham Lincoln. The "spiritual emancipator" of slaves to sin, death, and human error is Christ-- not Christianity...Bishop Carlton Pearson