How the black man embraced Christianity

[Foxaèr]

[Rev. Rye]

Well, technically, that's one of the ways the black man embraced Christianity. It's not quite the Ur-document the image macro is claiming because, the book shown, and originally entitled The Religious Instruction of the Negroes in the United States was published in 1843. While that may very well have been an influential text on getting the slaves addicted to the opium of the masses, it's too young to be THE text on disseminating it, especially considering that over a century earlier, United Society Partners in the Gospel, as well as many Great Awakening preachers, were making damn good headway in bringing the gospel to slaves (and, of course, twisting it to their own ends to make them more compliant.) As a matter of fact, Nat Turner, leader of the infamous slave rebellion of 1831, was a devout (if unorthodox) Christian:

And on the 12th of May, 1828, I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

This vision happened 15 years before the book in the OP was published.

[Huggy Bear]

You do realize there were black Christians in the bible right?

[Minimalist]

I wouldn't place too much confidence in anything that is in that stupid bible.

[purplepurpose]

What a life. One layer of physical slavery upgraded by a second one, mental...

[Fake Messiah]

[LastPoet]

Well, if anything it says black people are as gullible to bullshit as white? Ya know, white folks torched their own for wotchcraft and other mystical reasons before.

The desease is transversal to race. It is simply of the mind. Who wouldn't want the eternal sky daddy watching over them.

[Rev. Rye]

Well, if anything it says black people are as gullible to bullshit as white? Ya know, white folks torched their own for wotchcraft and other mystical reasons before.

The desease is transversal to race. It is simply of the mind. Who wouldn't want the eternal sky daddy watching over them.

Being uprooted from their native culture, subjugated into being slaves (in a version of the system that took everything bad about it and ratcheted it all up to eleven), and having their descendants grow up in what Massa tried his damnedest to turn into a Platonic Cave certainly helped matters on that front.

[Minimalist]

Someone asked me once what I thought of the movie "Glory.". I said that while it took a few historical liberties its basic fact was that black troops were as willing to be led to slaughter by incompetent officers as white soldiers.

Stupidity is not race based. That's why they are xhristards.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Someone asked me once what I thought of the movie "Glory.". I said that while it took a few historical liberties its basic fact was that black troops were as willing to be led to slaughter by incompetent officers as white soldiers.

Stupidity is not race based.  That's why they are xhristards.

The Bible is just a military code of conduct for everyone.  It's message is complete obedience and loyalty to the Boss.  If people are unwilling to do that then there would be no wars.  If you're in themiltary and you're told to go charge a machine gun you do it without a second thought although chances are very good that you will die.  That's what the Bible teaches.