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RE: Black people and christianity
December 7, 2016 at 3:53 pm
In the spirit of picking out favorites....it's unlikely that black christians focus on leviticus, of all of the books of the ot. Genesis and Exodus, more in keeping.
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December 7, 2016 at 4:07 pm
The whole point of religion is to give the downtrodden something to look forward to. Something that doesn't cost the power structure a nickle!
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December 7, 2016 at 4:45 pm
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-and nets them a dime.
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RE: Black people and christianity
December 8, 2016 at 12:03 am
Western Christianity like other tools of white supremacy isn't something that can be the throw off like a veil after over half a millennia of it being beaten into you. We are just now a people turning our face towards light. Hearing the chains clink to the ground. Our wounds generational. A pain that phantom in some places and raw with blood in others. You can't expect us to heal in an instant.
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RE: Black people and christianity
December 8, 2016 at 12:04 am
Quote: Hearing the chains clink to the ground.
Drumpf and his Brownshirts will take care of that.
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RE: Black people and christianity
December 13, 2016 at 6:49 am
(December 7, 2016 at 3:34 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Perhaps because of the role of black churches in the civil rights movement, criticism of Christianity carries a greater stigma among African Americans. Or maybe it's because oppression continues and the church has been a source of solace.
Don't forget education. Historically black people in most of the world have had lower educational attainment than others, a pattern which is continuing (mostly due to externalities). Education does negatively correlate to religiosity.
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RE: Black people and christianity
January 29, 2017 at 4:29 pm
 Book of Racism, Chapter 6, verse 29. And the Lord said, all black people should be enslaved.
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RE: Black people and christianity
January 29, 2017 at 4:37 pm
Don't all religions have or make slaves?
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RE: Black people and christianity
January 29, 2017 at 4:48 pm
(January 29, 2017 at 4:37 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Don't all religions have or make slaves?
Yeah, they do, some people don't even know they make Gods for themselves.
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RE: Black people and christianity
January 29, 2017 at 5:14 pm
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(December 7, 2016 at 3:06 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote: I just came across this on the internet: You may purchase slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase their children. You may treat them as your property. (Leviticus 25:45)
I find it... "funny", for the lack of a better word, how black people worship the same god who allowed them to be enslaved. What's worse, he actually ordered they should be enslaved. I'm guessing they'll end up not exactly in the place they were hoping for when they were alive, lol.
I don't think it's anything new. Romans colonised and spread Christianity. Islam is the same, it's fairly popular in Africa.
I do find it really odd that out of the people I know the most Christian Africans are still resentful about colonisation and don't see the link.
One of them found it amazing that my name's Paul and I'm not a Christian, as if once I've been named it's amazing I made an independant decision for myself after that about what to believe in.
Same type of thing with a really strict Muslim I used to know and he'd talk about his Persian ansestors.
(December 7, 2016 at 3:18 pm)AceBoogie Wrote: I don't know if black people are any more religious than white folks.
(December 7, 2016 at 3:26 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Gives statistics relating to if black people are more religious than white folks.
(December 7, 2016 at 3:37 pm)AceBoogie Wrote: That's interesting but to me has nothing to do with the conversation.
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