(August 4, 2020 at 8:55 am)Eleven Wrote: A religion that is colorblind is also equal opportunity.
That was never the case with black people.
Sure, believe in our god, but you're still beneath us. Thus, you'll be our slaves..
Nothing colorblind about slavery to religion. Church people are the worst sinners, for they judge who else is sitting with them in the pews and find them unworthy based on all sorts of criteria.
Something I've noted before in another thread, but I feel some atheists who have this strong tendency to criticize religion for all sorts of bad stuff have this rather narrow view of what religion is. They seem to think it's this static set of firmly established doctrines or rules that are not consistently acknowledged/followed by its professed adherents and that are often (or always) harmful to its adherents and/or wider society. Whereas I personally see religion and the individual/societal interpretation of it as either one and the same or at least inextricable. In the latter view, the Christianity of white people who referred to its doctrines as justifying of slavery is not the same as the Christianity of black people who embrace it as a means to liberation rather than slavery. So it comes off as absurd (and also as inconsiderate and arrogant in this case) to criticize black people for upholding a religion that, for them, led them out of slavery just because you refuse to separate that from the religion of white supremacists.
