It's Time To Wake Up

It's Time To Wake Up

An·te·di·lu·vi·an - adjective - of or belonging to the time before the biblical Flood..." gigantic bones of antediluvian animals."

Authors who wrote during antediluvian times had an audience of illiterate people. Only Kings and Queens (some, not all) knew how to read. 

There were 40 men whose articles would, centuries after they were written, be collated, at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 CE, into the 66 Books of the Christian Bible. 

In order to reach an audience of illiterates, they wrote metaphorically, they wrote anthropomorphisms (assigning human characteristics to animals.. i.e. talking snake, talking donkey - Balam), and they wrote in parables.

One such parable of great significance is:

Genesis 2:17 (KJV) 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Also, slave masters forbade slaves to learn to read because reading allows one to acquire knowledge.  

"Many White Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice."

~ MLK