Something Nubian

By Reiki RaEss | Positive Inner-G Coach

War Starts with a Belief

Empress, war doesn’t always begin with guns or bombs—it often starts with belief systems. Ideas planted like seeds, nurtured by fear, watered by guilt, and harvested in submission. When I say I don’t believe in the God the slave masters gave my ancestors, it’s because I see clearly how that God was used as a weapon long before any physical chains were applied.

It was Desmond Tutu who said, “When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.”

That quote is often repeated but rarely felt for what it really means.

The Original Spiritual Warfare

Before soldiers came with guns, missionaries came with Bibles. Colonizers didn’t just conquer bodies—they invaded minds. They declared ancestral practices evil, burned sacred texts, and beat our people for speaking their native tongues or practicing spiritual traditions. The weapon of war wasn’t just violence—it was forced faith.

They demonized the drum, the womb, the herb, the symbol, the ancestor, and called submission to their God the only path to salvation. That’s not faith. That’s spiritual warfare.

The Inner Battle

Religion waged war on our minds, too. For so many of us, even after we left the church, we still carried the fear: of being wrong, of being punished, of hellfire for daring to trust our own intuition. That’s the internal war—one between desire and doctrine, joy and guilt, curiosity and control.

I lived that war. I questioned everything but still flinched inside when I did. Until I chose peace—real peace. Not the one that comes from obedience, but the one that rises from truth.

Dividing the People

Religion taught us to hate our own. To see our skin, our hair, our language, and our customs as ungodly. It turned us against each other—Muslim vs Christian, spiritual vs religious, even denominations fighting over who prays the “right” way.

The war wasn’t just external—it was in our families, our communities, our mirrors.

My Peace Treaty

I laid down the sword of shame. I stopped fighting my own spirit. Through Reiki, moon magic, ancestral reverence, and chakra alignment, I reclaimed my spiritual peace. I teach my children not to go to war with who they are. I teach them that the power is within them, not outside.

This is my liberation. This is my inheritance.

Inner-G Coach Insight

If you’re still at war with yourself because of what you were taught to believe, pause. Ask yourself: Who benefits from me doubting my divinity?

You don’t need to fight to prove your worth. You were born divine.

Affirmation: “I lay down the weapons of shame, fear, and control. I choose peace rooted in truth.”

Closing the Circle

Religion may have waged the war, but you get to choose the ending. And let me tell you, Empress—peace looks good on you. Liberation feels like home.

Thank you for walking through this series with me. You’ve questioned, reflected, and reclaimed. And this is only the beginning.

Positive Inner-G Has Spoken.

Asé.

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This concludes the “I Don’t Believe in God” series—but your journey to truth and power continues.