Perhaps African Americans Are Finally Catching On

[Athene]

Missed you, Thena.  Happy to see that your arse-kicking skills are as formidable as ever.

Boru

Meh...maybe with some fashionable orthotics. I think I'm getting kinda old.
My feet hurt at the end of the day!

[EgoDeath]

Yea, black people being Christians always confused me. Still, Blacks who convert to Judaism or Islam because they think they're in some way rejecting the status quo by doing so are equally confusing. They do realize that all three Abraham religions are Middle Eastern in origin... right? You're not "sticking it to the man" by becoming a Jew.

Religion is retarded, no matter which way you cut it.

I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon. - Song of Solomon 1:5

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Hey Thena! Nice to see you  back, missed you.

Umm, the Abrahamic religions are from the Middle East. Middle Eastern people are darker skinned, some even black. WOAH! imagine that!

However, being black or dark skinned and being of African descent (hence the term African-American), are often two different things.

[Huggy Bear]

I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon. - Song of Solomon 1:5

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Hey Thena! Nice to see you  back, missed you.

Thanks, bruh. How's it going?

Still the same ol Huggy everyone loves to hate

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I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon. - Song of Solomon 1:5

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Hey Thena! Nice to see you  back, missed you.

Umm, the Abrahamic religions are from the Middle East. Middle Eastern people are darker skinned, some even black. WOAH! imagine that!

However, being black or dark skinned and being of African descent (hence the term African-American), are often two different things.

Wrong buddy,

There was no Hebrew religion until Moses, of whom is credited with writing the torah, and giving the Hebrews the Law.

Where was Moses born and raised again?

[Athene]

Thanks, bruh. How's it going?

Still the same ol Huggy everyone loves to hate

Ah..very good, then.
Keep up the good work!

[EgoDeath]

Thanks, bruh. How's it going?

Still the same ol Huggy everyone loves to hate

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Umm, the Abrahamic religions are from the Middle East. Middle Eastern people are darker skinned, some even black. WOAH! imagine that!

However, being black or dark skinned and being of African descent (hence the term African-American), are often two different things.

Wrong buddy,

There was no Hebrew religion until Moses, of whom is credited with writing the torah, and giving the Hebrews the Law.

Where was Moses born and raised again?

And yet we don't even know that Moses was a real person. Interesting!!

[Huggy Bear]

Still the same ol Huggy everyone loves to hate

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Wrong buddy,

There was no Hebrew religion until Moses, of whom is credited with writing the torah, and giving the Hebrews the Law.

Where was Moses born and raised again?

And yet we don't even know that Moses was a real person. Interesting!!

Doesn't matter.

You claim Judaism came from the middle east, which makes no sense seeing how the single most important figure of the religion (whether you believe he was real or not) was born and raised in Africa.

[Amarok]

Judaism is middle eastern

[Huggy Bear]

Judaism is middle eastern

If you're including Egypt as part of the middle east, then ok I agree, if not then feel free to make your case anytime you're ready...

[Amarok]

Judaism is middle eastern

If you're including Egypt as part of the middle east, then ok I agree, if not then feel free to make your case anytime you're ready...

Moses was supposedly from(he didn't exist ) Egypt. But Judaism did not start in Egypt .

Judaism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions and was founded over 3500 years ago in the Middle East. Jews believe that God appointed the Jews to be his chosen people in order to set an example of holiness and ethical behaviour to the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/

Three of the world's major religions -- the monotheist traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- were all born in the Middle East and are all inextricably linked to one another. Christianity was born from within the Jewish tradition, and Islam developed from both Christianity and Judaism.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnection...index.html

[Angrboda]

Wrong buddy,

There was no Hebrew religion until Moses, of whom is credited with writing the torah, and giving the Hebrews the Law.

Where was Moses born and raised again?

I have two questions.  

First, are you claiming that you can't have a religion without a written text?  

And second, if not, on what are you basing your belief that the Hebrew religion started with Moses?

Given some quick research, at the least, God made a covenant with Noah long before Moses was born, so it would seem Hebrew covenants with and worship of God predates Moses by a considerable margin.  And that's ignoring the covenant between God and Adam and Eve.

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The question of the race of ancient Egyptians was raised historically as a product of the early racial concepts of the 18th and 19th centuries, and was linked to models of racial hierarchy primarily based on craniometry, anthropometry and genetics. A variety of views circulated about the racial identity of the Egyptians and the source of their culture. These were typically identified in terms of a distinction between the Caucasoid and Negroid racial categories. Some scholars argued that ancient Egyptian culture was influenced by other Afroasiatic-speaking populations in Northeast Africa, the Maghreb, or the Middle East, while others pointed to influences from various Nubian groups or populations in Europe.

Mainstream scholars reject the notion that Egypt was a white or black civilization; they maintain that, despite the phenotypic diversity of Ancient and present day Egyptians, applying modern notions of black or white races to ancient Egypt is anachronistic. In addition, scholars reject the notion, implicit in the notion of a black or white Egypt hypothesis, that Ancient Egypt was racially homogeneous; instead, skin color varied between the peoples of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Nubia, who in various eras rose to power in Ancient Egypt.

In the last few years, the first credible, peer-reviewed genetic studies on Ancient Egyptians have been conducted, which show that a small but significant and consistent percentage of Ancient Egyptian ancestry came from sub-Saharan Africa. This ancestry is lowest in northern Egypt, and becomes increasingly large as one proceeds south through the populations of Middle and Upper (southern) Egypt. A 2017 genetic study of 83 mummies from northern Egypt (buried near modern-day Cairo), which constituted "the first reliable data set obtained from ancient Egyptians using high-throughput DNA sequencing methods," showed that these persons were most closely related to the diverse modern populations of what is now the Arab world, particularly the southern Levant and Arabia, while also indicating smaller affinities to the neighboring southeastern European and sub-Saharan African (Nubian) populations.

Notably, all 83 mummies tested had significant levels of sub-Saharan African ancestry; but this ancestry was relatively distant. Specifically, the mummies contained between 6% and 15% sub-Saharan African ancestry, with this component getting increasingly large in the later eras of Ancient Egypt. The study's authors noted that this is much less than the percentage of sub-Saharan African ancestry in modern Egyptians, and emphasized the genetic distance between modern and Ancient Egyptians.[5] The authors also cautioned that their findings might be unrepresentative of Ancient Egypt as a whole, anticipating that mummies from Upper (southern) Egypt would contain greater levels of sub-Saharan African ancestry than the Lower Egyptian mummies they examined, and anticipated more future research on the matter.

Wikipedia || Ancient Egyptian race controversy