Kawaida Theory, Ron Karenga, 1980: Western Religion (ie. Christianity) "denies and diminishes human worth, capacity, potential and achievement. In Christian and Jewish mythology, humans are born in sin, cursed with mythical ancestors who've sinned and brought the wrath of an angry God on every generation's head."Karenga's own words show that there is a diametrical conflict between the two - Christmas and Kwanzaa. And the only Christians who celebrate Kwanzaa are those who have been duped by Karenga, his followers, and the Kwanzaa lapdog media. Because, if they knew the truth about Kwanzaa and its underlying Kawaida theory (religion) they would have nothing to do with it.In this same book he calls God and Jesus, "spooks who threaten us if we don't worship them and demand we turn over our destiny and daily lives."
Kwanzaa: Origin, Concepts, Practice, Ron Karenga, 1977: "Kwanzaa is not an imitation [of Christmas], but an alternative [to Christmas], in fact, an oppositional alternative to the spookism, mysticism and non-earth based practices which plague us as a people and encourage our withdrawal from social life rather than our bold confrontation with it."
Continuing from the same book: The holiday "was chosen to give a Black alternative to the existing holiday and give Blacks an opportunity to celebrate themselves and history rather than simply imitate the practice of the dominant society."
Well, there's an intelligent, open-minded approach to proven historical documentation going back 50-60 centuries.
A close and brilliant friend of mine was reluctant to accept other people's translations of ancient writings, so he went to Columbia and Harvard universities and mastered ancient scripts, including runic Egyptian heiroglyphs.
He was able to confirm that even the most fantastic of the Biblical stories, such as the plagues which accompanied the Jews' deliverance from slavery in Egypt (frogs, flies, Nile turning to blood, Pillar of Fire, Red Sea swallowing Pharaoh's Army, etc.) were all recorded by Pharaoh's scribes just as they appear in the Bible.
Parenthetically, my friend began his journey of discovery from the firmly held position of a doubtful cynic. He no longer holds those views.