(March 18, 2012 at 11:32 am)Freedom Wrote:(March 18, 2012 at 10:52 am)Xavier Wrote: Yet they embrace the religion of the white Europeans who enslaved black americans and oppressed their culture in the first place, the theology of which says implies it was perfectly OK for them to do so.
Pretty stupid imo
I happen to be an African American female atheist. I can guarantee you that the vast majority of black Americans will not understand the message of that billboard because they truly believe that the Bible-god freed them from slavery as Moses' god allegedly did for the Israelites. What they don't understand is that the same god who "freed" them also commanded slavery. Trust me, they have too thick of a mental block to ever get it. It's a shame.
I second this.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
