RE: The black man as a slave to the white man's god
August 4, 2020 at 12:42 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2020 at 12:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Christianity never lead anyone out of slavery. It doesn't hold anyone's hand and walk through dark fields. The reason that black christianity can't be separated from white supremacist christianity is that it's the same christianity. Literally inflicted in the past, ofc, but it's not as if white supremacy is done milking strong christian moral character to disenfranchise minorities. That continues to this very day. As a tradition, black christianity has, itself, had to come to terms with this. Thus the thematic differences between traditions.
Putting the two in comparison we can see one of the failures of god belief. We have two groups swearing to christ that god agrees with them. In the end, it doesn't really matter which christian faction has this one right. Maybe god is with the supremacists - but that won't mean that we're going to be...and supposing god was with the disenfranchised..well..that wouldn't be why we sided with them as a government. The fact that different sects contain contradictory statements of faith relevant to severe and continued civil unrest that are not resolvable to any fact of any matter is not a defense of christianity - but a further indictment.
People have been assessing christianity in this way since it's birth. We're more than capable of looking at a bad thing with good effects, and good things with bad effects. A belief doesn't wriggle off the hook it's worked so hard to deserve just because it gives away little cakes.
Putting the two in comparison we can see one of the failures of god belief. We have two groups swearing to christ that god agrees with them. In the end, it doesn't really matter which christian faction has this one right. Maybe god is with the supremacists - but that won't mean that we're going to be...and supposing god was with the disenfranchised..well..that wouldn't be why we sided with them as a government. The fact that different sects contain contradictory statements of faith relevant to severe and continued civil unrest that are not resolvable to any fact of any matter is not a defense of christianity - but a further indictment.
People have been assessing christianity in this way since it's birth. We're more than capable of looking at a bad thing with good effects, and good things with bad effects. A belief doesn't wriggle off the hook it's worked so hard to deserve just because it gives away little cakes.
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