Christians of Color

[dyresand]

I think what you're missing is that the good ol' Bible, The "Good Book" fucking justified slavery.  (And yes, I use the word fuck in as many sentences as possible, because it's my favorite fucking word).  It wasn't just some Christian Nutjob who said "SLAVERY IS GOOD!"  The holy text upon which your entire religion is based was totally cool with slavery.  It was also cool with stoning people, and totally cool with all the fucking misogyny.  

Did some Christians ignore that stupid shit?  Sure.  Plenty of them did.  They were like "Fuck that, slavery isn't cool.  Even though my holy text says it is.  I'm just going to ignore that part, and ignore all the parts about stoning people.  Obviously that wasn't intended for everybody.  The Gay stuff?  Totally intended for everyone.  Ew!"  Some Christians also ignore all the anti-gay stuff in the bible.  They ignore the talk about divorce and eating shellfish and pretty much every fucking thing they want to.

Yet for some fucking reason they can't say "You know what, I believe in god.  I even believe in Jesus.  But you know, I'm not so sure the Bible itself is believable.  How can I say that the Bible was inspired by god, and yet it contain all this crazy shit?"



Joseph Stalin was an atheist.  He was also a crazy fucker.  He never used his atheism to justify his actions.  There is no atheist book that justifies anything.  It'd be comparable to if a Christian went out and stole a fuck ton of money, and then someone said "Look at what those Christians did!"  It wouldn't make sense because yes -- a Christian did it.  But their Christianity had fuck all to do with it.

Also the founding fathers of all people  weren't  even christian they knew how bad it was and Lincoln of all people knew and the other founding fathers knew slavery was wrong and other people knew it was wrong as well. If this were a christian nation it slavery itself would have ended a lot later in this countries history.