RE: Black people and christianity
January 31, 2017 at 12:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2017 at 12:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 31, 2017 at 2:44 am)Godschild Wrote: No you are wrong, bigoted, racist or what ever you might want to call it, when you insinuate that black people should reject a belief because of what happened in the past, is demeaning and insulting their intelligence and that is racism.Still having trouble with words. Racism is the position or assumption that a persons -race- makes them somehow inferior, lesser.....or greater, for that matter - that something is endemic to their -race-. Not that any group of people, be it cultural or ethnic, should reject something due to it's being leveraged to enslave them, and not that any group of people did something or believe something stupid. For example, insinuating or believing that mexicans are a bunch of criminal takers ruining our country....racist. Insinuating or believing that mexicans would have to be idiotic to trust our federal government at present......not racist. Find me a mexican who thinks that all of this shit of late is honky dory and I'll call that guy an idiot all day long...and maybe I'd be an asshole, but not a racist. Do you understand the difference?
Quote:All color of people have been held in slavery at one point in history, yet the OP picks out only black people, singling out a race and then demeaning them is racism period. The only reason you are defending the other is because a Christian was stating what he saw atheist doing.Or maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with your inability to see bigotry and racism when and where it exists...and, instead, choose to interpret it as having something to do with your silly ass religion? Obviously, imo, the two issues are related.
The question has been asked and, at least to an extent, answered as regards the op. As you've so kindly pointed out, many have been oppressed...and christianity has a long and venerable history of oppression. Why, indeed, would -anyone- cling to the faith that exterminated their ancestors both bodily and culturally...or held them in bondage? Well, part of it has to do with extermination and bondage, part of it has to do with appropriation (similar to the manner in which you are attempting to appropriate the term racism now, matter of fact) and some of it has to do with syncretic re-imaginings of the very faith traditions in question.
Again...you're welcome.
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