Black people and christianity

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[quote='Godschild' pid='1499789' dateline='1485845045']

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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. 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.

GC

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You really should try and come to a better understanding of the scriptures before making such ridiculous statements.

GC

The OT Israelites were a bunch of barbarians, homicidal maniacs, thieves, and baby rapers.  They make ISIS look like bunny rabbits.
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If that's your best I'm not lowering myself to such petty tripe.

GC

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[quote='Godschild' pid='1499789' dateline='1485845045']

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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.

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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?

I've never had trouble understanding racism, I grew up in the south and witnessed almost daily and found it an awful thing as a child and still do as an adult. The OP called out a certain race and one that was most likely no in slaved but the Israelites. The Israelites were in slavery 400 years in Egypt but no one here cares about that, now do they.
By the way being an ---hole can very often be seen in bigotry.

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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.

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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.

Well then maybe you can explain why the black people want to research their ancestral backgrounds. It was the Africans themselves who were enslaving their own long before white men began to buy them. It was the Africans who enslaved their own to sale to the white people. There's guilt enough to go around without people trying to make a continued controversy and/or argument. We should all be working for better relationships between all races.
Also think twice before you believe you can teach me about racism, bigotry or any other type of hate.

GC