People will defend the stories against people calling them out, in which some Christian’s admit it’s allegories and metaphors , but won’t take Jesus as being one. You can’t be a Christian and not 100% believe in these stories outside of the ones literally marked in the Bible as being one (if there are any)..
Christians really be believing this shyt out of fear. Damnation and going to hell. Our parents beat religion into us, yet we act , as African Americans, as if we organically stumbled upon Christianity and chose it because it’s true. Even if your parents are not Christian, it’s always been ingrained in our families since slavery. Your friends grew up in church, if you didn’t. Civil rights movement (heavy regarding the church / Jesus).
Our people were west Africans. They were not praising Jesus at large before they were taken on ships. Literally not historically accurate. There was Muslim and Christian’s of course. But the majority were not. And the ones who were often received it through foreign influence . Given catholic prominence from the Dutch Portuguese during the predating to the 1400s. Arab traders led to the spread of Islam.
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“Portuguese missionaries and traders brought Christianity to West Africa, starting in Guinea, Mauritania, and the Gambia.
They were most successful in converting the Kingdom of Kongo, where local rulers combined imported and local beliefs and practices to create a Kongolese version of Christianity”
“Portuguese missionaries wrote KiKongo dictionaries and grammars and brought many translations of Portuguese religious texts, thus through the process of ordination a local literate class of priests developed. Afonso I, the Kongo king who reigned from 1506 to 1543, was not only literate, but also spoke and wrote in Portuguese, and
his son Henrique was sent to Europe to complete his religious training. Afonso’s many articulate letters to the Vatican and to Portuguese bishops are some of the most important records of precolonial Africa and the Kongo Christian faith.”
In parts of Kongo, Christianity was accepted not as a new religion that would replace the old, but rather as a new syncretic cult that was fully compatible with existing structures.
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Told my dad early Sunday morning before we got in the car for church that story can’t be real that the story sounded ridiculous and laughed. 
He didn’t even say nothing.
Just beat my ass with the belt and then we went to church I was like 8 years old 
closest we got is David Blaine
