Is atheism cac shyt?

[TEH]

YES

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Allowed black people to understand that they don't need to depend on some fictional diety to provide for themselves for one.

They didn't depend on a 'fictional deity' to organize themselves and gain Civil Rights.

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[Hathaway]

I believe that’s on them individuals, religion is going stop anybody from getting an education or doing good in this world

But it does. Think of all the people who stay at home and pray for their problems to go away instead of taking action and handling shyt.

Listen, I've seen it with my own two eyes when I was a minister. Religion got black people down BAD on the south. It may not be like this on other liberal cities throughout the country, but down here, it's a fukking disease.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Kept us from being duped out our money by pulpit pimps and kept us from being touched on by priest.

Vast majority (99%) of Black churchgoers haven't been 'duped' or 'touched', so that means nothing.

You're just like them in those regards...... AND percentages.

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[Hathaway]

They didn't depend on a 'fictional deity' to organize themselves and gain Civil Rights.

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That had nothing to do with religion and I'm tired of ignorant, non reading nikkas spewing that non sense. The church was not the foundation of the Civil Rights movement. It was simply a part of it. Black people would've followed/stood with anybody who could mobilize and organize at the level of MLK. All we needed was unity and a plan and MLK provided that.

 

[Gritsngravy]

But it does. Think of all the people who stay at home and pray for their problems to go away instead of taking action and handling shyt.

Listen, I've seen it with my own two eyes when I was a minister. Religion got black people down BAD on the south. It may not be like this on other liberal cities throughout the country, but down here, it's a fukking disease.

Is it religion making them like that or is that just their personalities

 

[Hathaway]

Is it religion making them like that or is that just their personalities

It most certainly is the religion that teaches negros to be docile, overly accepting and inactive in face of their problems. That "turn the other cheek" mentality has been detrimental to the development of generations of black people.

 

[Rum&Pineapple]

I think people label it that because most of us weren’t raised to openly question or deny the existence of God. But I feel like everyone is entitled to their own conclusions.

 

[Black Mamba]

Bible thumping babble

Anyways I believe in something responsible for all this just that nobody knows anything about it.
Religion is a fukking scam.

 

[Gritsngravy]

It most certainly is the religion that teaches negros to be docile, overly accepting and inactive in face of their problems. That "turn the other cheek" mentality has been detrimental to the development of generations of black people.

I would argue the government sabotaging us done more damage not religion
Any so called damage from religion is just a side effect of racism

 

[Marci-Senpai]

I like to tell myself that I believe in whatever is the TRUTH…plain and simple..I have faith in Christianity but if that is wrong It really isn’t my fault for trying and being lied to my whole life

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

That had nothing to do with religion and I'm tired of ignorant, non reading nikkas spewing that non sense. The church was not the foundation of the Civil Rights movement.

If it had 'nothing to do with religion', then anyone could have done it. Yet, 'believers' did it, as they'd been doing since their 'faith' was established.

And the Church was, indeed, the foundation of the Movement as it's values were central.....

The history and importance of the Black Church

Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.

news.harvard.edu

“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

~Karl Marx.
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The role of Black Christianity in motivating our country’s largest slave rebellion, Nat Turner’s rebellion, Southampton County, Va., is only the most dramatic example of the text of the King James Bible being called upon to justify the violent revolutionary overthrow of the slave regime. But we need only look at the brilliant use of the church in all of its forms — from W. E. B. Du Bois’s triptych of “the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy” to the use of the building itself — to see the revolutionary potential and practice of Black Christianity in forging social change. What most intrigues me about Marx’s full quote is his realization that it is at once “the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering,” a crucial part of the quote that seems to have fallen away.

 

[Black Mamba]

Also as an Haïtian. It wasn’t praying to fukking Jesus that got our liberty so yall can miss me with the fukk shyt motherfukk religion

 

[Hathaway]

If it had 'nothing to do with religion', then anyone could have done it. Yet, 'believers' did it, as they'd been doing since their 'faith' was established.

And the Church was, indeed, the foundation of the Movement as it's values were central.....

The history and importance of the Black Church

Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.

news.harvard.edu

“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

~Karl Marx.
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Everyone who followed MLK was most certainly not a believer.

 

[Hathaway]

If it had 'nothing to do with religion', then anyone could have done it. Yet, 'believers' did it, as they'd been doing since their 'faith' was established.

And the Church was, indeed, the foundation of the Movement as it's values were central.....

The history and importance of the Black Church

Henry Louis Gates’ new book on the Black Church traces the institution’s role in history, politics, and culture.

news.harvard.edu

“Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

~Karl Marx.
​

The role of Black Christianity in motivating our country’s largest slave rebellion, Nat Turner’s rebellion, Southampton County, Va., is only the most dramatic example of the text of the King James Bible being called upon to justify the violent revolutionary overthrow of the slave regime. But we need only look at the brilliant use of the church in all of its forms — from W. E. B. Du Bois’s triptych of “the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy” to the use of the building itself — to see the revolutionary potential and practice of Black Christianity in forging social change. What most intrigues me about Marx’s full quote is his realization that it is at once “the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering,” a crucial part of the quote that seems to have fallen away.

I see what you're saying my guy and I respectfully disagree. If more black people were Atheist, we as a people woild be better off. My experiences in the church and as a leader in the church for 9 years have shaped and solidified that opinion.

The Civil Rights discussion, well we just have differing opinions on what was the true catalyst of it all.