What’s your view on the Bible. Do you think we are Israelites, God’s chosen people?

I say that we definitely apart of the supreme plan, but I don’t think God is that simple. I think God’s chosen people are the ones who do God’s work. I don’t think God just chooses according to skin color like alright you black you’re down. I think you gotta do the work because it says you will know them by the fruits they bare. There are a lot of devils out there that look the same. Every brother ain’t a brother and every other ain’t an other.

Between the Bible and the Koran, is there any one that you specifically follow or do you think both of the books are essential to go by?

I think you have to look at everything, the Kabbalah, the Bible, I Ching, or whatever because God is the supreme author of everything. There are going to be different versions and man will have many different interpretations on what God is doing. I bet if you read the bible, a Daoist book, and a Buddhist book you will find the same thing. It’s just different regions. I found an ill book recently and it was talking about how they were practicing Christianity in China 600 years after Jesus died. They are Christian Daoists and had intermingled Christianity with Daoism and Buddhism. The book is called ‘The Jesus Sutra.’ Everything is a different interpretation and when you study all of those things you understand that you are God because you are the manifestation of God in the flesh. That’s what god says, you are my image. A five per center might say this and a Israelite might say this and its all true, but just because I know this don’t mean nothing. Am I doing the work? That’s what’s gonna really show who I am. You got dirty preachers, dirty Buddhist dudes, so its all on the individual and I think at the end of the day God is gonna show you whose who. When we see the world changing, we’ll know whose doing what because religion to me is the father of all wars.

Yea more people have died over religion than anything.

For years and years already, people have been using Christianity, Islam, and all other religions to manipulate people. Look at Jim Jones, look at how Elijah Mohammed did.

I was reading this book on the history of the world told through catastrophes, atrocities and things of that nature and in one case it told a story of King Nero of Rome who burned down the city and then told the people that the Jews were responsible and persecuted them. It’s scary how in this world everything goes around in a circle and how we as humans are doing the same thing now all we need is a scapegoat and we will kill, persecute or whatever with no more info.

Remember the dude who killed the kid and then they went and said some black dude did it. Same thing they always going to do that that’s human nature.

That’s true, but its wild that so much death is caused because someone goes “He did it.”

Hussein is nutty. That’s why I like that dude Bill Maher he keeps it real. According to America’s definition of terrorism Hiroshima was terrorism. An act of war against civilians.

Or even what happened in Cambodia in the 60’s.

The Killing Fields.

What my thing is, how do you fight terrorism with terrorism. If you walking around my hood with an AK 47 that shit is terrorism.

Don’t get me wrong I love living in America the things we do here we can’t do anywhere else, but on the same note our problem is we don’t deal with equality. That’s the whole world. Hussein, Osama, Bush, Blair, whomever else we aren’t dealing with equality so of course there are all of these injustices in the world. If you tip the scale one-way whoever is on the low end is gonna want to rise up. It’s not just race because go to Ireland and they are the same race except one dude said I’m Protestant and the other said I’m Catholic so they blow each other up and that’s been going on for how long. They are blowing each other up because he wants to go to a different church. If it’s not race or religion, its gonna be class like they the paupers I’m the king. Human nature is just oppressive because we don’t truly deal with love. That’s why they were so scared of Martin Luther King because he dealt strictly with love. He was gonna get people to love each other in one race and they couldn’t have that. Same thing with Malcolm they didn’t like him because he dealt with violence and that’s not even when they killed him, they killed once he learned love.

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Posted by Halftime on Saturday, February 7th, 2004 and is filed under HIP HOP ICON SERIES.