Sorry...we're not muslims in training

Harlem
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Peace,
When you read a lot of the essays that have been written about the Nation of Gods and Earths there is a lot of ‘subtext’ sometimes. There is often a ‘subliminal’ message. This message is that the Nation of Gods and Earths are a “proto” or “quasi” form of Islam. This subject has been touched on by many in this Nation. What follows this line of thinking is that the Nation of Gods and Earths work as an ‘immature’ form of Islam that many ‘grow” out of until they become a Sunni or Shiite muslim. So there is a definite ‘intellectual hierarchy’ set up where one is set up to be more ‘primative/elementary’ than the other.

What is never written about in these essays is that there are MANY in the Nation of Gods and Earths whom came from the muslims of the Nation of Islam, from Sunni Islam, etc. There is a big portion also whom come from a population that is dissatisfied with Christianity (I myself came from that population). And many times we just aren’t ‘lay/passive’ members of said groups. Many whom I have met are well versed in the doctrine, theology, and religious text of their former religious affiliation.

From my observation I have seen that many make a transition from the Nation of Gods and Earths because they never fully gain an Understanding of everything that we teach and will achieve. They KNOW what it is that we teach and will achieve yet because they don’t have a great Understanding their Wisdom has no direction and cannot set up for Understanding to be Born in another. As a result when approached with certain questions by the 85% or even the 10% they don’t want to take the weight for something that they don’t fully Understand. They do not want to be perceived as ‘racist’, ‘sexist’, etc yet they don’t Understand how we are not those things so subconsciously they start to thing that we are. When approached on Yacub or other aspects of 120 degrees their own lack of study and manifestation makes them an easy target for the 85% and 10%. Thus they leave the Nation and become religious or become ‘universal’ i.e. ‘I don’t limit myself to 120.’ Universal doesn’t mean that one mixes everything in a pot of slop and eat it. Universal means that one knows their coordinate in the Universe and how they relate to everything else. In the long run the above individuals leave the Nation because they don’t want to shoulder any responsibility to the Nation yet they want to live off of the magnetic of the Nation.