(June 3, 2019 at 5:47 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote: Okay...
I wasn't trying to win an argument, I'm trying to understand why you took issue with my original statement.
Well, my original argument was that plenty of Africans didn't observe the Abrahamic religions. Neither Hebrew practices nor Christianity was part of their native beliefs. Including many of the Africans brought to the Americas that you suggested may be descendants of the Lost Tribes.
Some of those native groups observed their own spirituality practices that existed well before Christian-Judeo traditions, and were doing so when conversion to Christianity was effectively forced on them.
It did happen. Whether that was part of God's ultimate plan or not is actually a topic for another conversation, I guess.
But it happened.
That was my original point.