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Post by Vegas on Feb 27, 2018 1:31:40 GMT
Why are black people Christians?  |
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Feb 27, 2018 1:47:14 GMT
Why are black people Christians? My masta say so! |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Feb 27, 2018 2:19:46 GMT
Why are black people Christians? What was their alternative? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 2:24:31 GMT
Why is anybody?
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Post by goz on Feb 27, 2018 6:25:43 GMT
...to get to the other side.
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 27, 2018 11:01:08 GMT
The title to this thread is too long and it pushes the named of the last person to reply off the window. That is for every thread on the page, not just this thread.
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Post by Vegas on Feb 27, 2018 13:14:38 GMT
The title to this thread is too long and it pushes the named of the last person to reply off the window. That is for every thread on the page, not just this thread. Cool. My stupidity broke the internet.  |
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 27, 2018 13:54:58 GMT
The title to this thread is too long and it pushes the named of the last person to reply off the window. That is for every thread on the page, not just this thread. Cool. My stupidity broke the internet. Have you considered editing the title to make it shorter? |
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Post by general313 on Feb 27, 2018 15:49:11 GMT
Why are Norwegians Christians?
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Post by Vegas on Feb 27, 2018 16:13:51 GMT
Cool. My stupidity broke the internet. Have you considered adjusting the screen size on your computer? (Hold down Ctrl and roll the finger wheel on your mouse.) |
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Post by captainbryce on Feb 27, 2018 16:16:34 GMT
Mostly religious indoctrination. I think the full context of the question is: “Why do black Americans continue to practice a religion that was forced onto their ancestors as a means of justifying their slavery? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 17:04:18 GMT
Mostly religious indoctrination. I think the full context of the question is: “Why do black Americans continue to practice a religion that was forced onto their ancestors as a means of justifying their slavery? The question implies that people would base their current beliefs and attitudes on what happened to their ancestors. Which most people really don't. |
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Post by Arlon10 on Feb 27, 2018 17:10:07 GMT
Have you considered editing the title to make it shorter? Have you considered adjusting the screen size on your computer? (Hold down Ctrl and roll the finger wheel on your mouse.) Okay, that works, but the mouse with the finger wheel takes up too much space on my desk. I like the other mouse better. My browser, and probably everyone else's, has a zoom feature that can be used just by clicking on it. Using about 80 percent zoom solves the problem. CTRL+finger wheel is zoom too. |
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Post by captainbryce on Feb 27, 2018 18:40:56 GMT
Mostly religious indoctrination. I think the full context of the question is: “Why do black Americans continue to practice a religion that was forced onto their ancestors as a means of justifying their slavery? The question implies that people would base their current beliefs and attitudes on what happened to their ancestors. Which most people really don't. Sure they do. That's where indoctrination comes from in the first place. Something passed down generationally through tradition. But that's actually not what the question implies at all. The question implies that people SHOULD be inclined to know the history of any particular religion as it relates to their culture, and make a determination as to whether such a history has been favorable. Because there is no logic in following an unfavorable idea that was used to the determent of people you share ancestry to. Particularly when you still suffer the effects of what was imposed on them. |
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Post by drystyx on Feb 27, 2018 19:18:15 GMT
Obviously, the blacks who are Christian do so because they're almost always acting on better research of the Christian church than non Christian blacks and most whites.
The early church, for example, had a rift between the African and Roman bishops, and those considered "anti popes" look to be far more qualified than the ones declared legitimate popes by Rome.
The popes got more and more corrupt in Rome, with the church becoming more of a kingdom of princes, even with the families of Orisini and Colonna vying for supremacy. They may as well have been Montague and Capulet.
The papacy wasn't a Christian church for a long time. During the "reign of women" it was totally Satanic, with one pope even toasting to the devil.
In view of how the Christian church was historically saner and more Christian in the African side of the rift, it's no wonder that educated black people will hold Christianity in higher regard than white people. |
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Post by Terrapin Station on Feb 27, 2018 19:19:31 GMT
Why are black people Christians? What was their alternative? Stick with the religions they already had? That would seem to be one option. |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Feb 27, 2018 19:24:08 GMT
What was their alternative? Stick with the religions they already had? That would seem to be one option. Which were? |
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Post by captainbryce on Feb 27, 2018 19:58:57 GMT
Obviously, the blacks who are Christian do so because they're almost always acting on better research of the Christian church than non Christian blacks and most whites. Oh really? Well since this is so “obvious”, you shouldn’t have any trouble validating this statement with some facts and sources, should you?  Your argument presumed that Christianity was given to black Americans before they were captured into slavery; but that is not factually sound. Black Americans were forced into slavery and given the Bible as a way to justify their enslavement by white American Protestants. |
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Post by goz on Feb 27, 2018 23:06:21 GMT
Stick with the religions they already had? That would seem to be one option. Which were? The multitudinous and various tribal ones they had back in Africa....duh! |
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Feb 27, 2018 23:29:50 GMT
The multitudinous and various tribal ones they had back in Africa....duh! You realize slaves were sold individually, not as tribes. Double Duh. Plus slave owners would have considered the religions you speak of as Blasphemy, and the slaves would have been tortured. Hell, many were beaten for trying to learn to read. They were given a religion to believe in, and being the needed a savior, and after over 200 years of slavery this religion was 'beaten' into them, from generation to generation, so it became the religion of the slaves. If you disagree with me, let me know. |
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