Reading what's trending on #blackatheist on Twitter gives me hope

[andre patton]

You're open to concepts outside our perception but you will reject them if there is no perceivable evidence to support them.

what are you even saying? what are these "concepts outside our perception" you keep referring to? i accept the most plausible explanation. i reject the belief in things that lack a plausible existence.

it sounds like you are saying, "well...its possible there is some stuff out there that has zero evidence of existence because it completely operates outside of our perception, but that doesnt mean it doesnt exist." thats really just a god of the gaps argument, which is really just a lazy cop out.

You want to find answers but have all ready taken a stance on the subject by defining yourelf as an atheist.

did you even read my last post? you missed my whole point. atheism isnt really "taking a stance". the only "stance" i am taking is on the side of rational thinking. im not going to blindly accept ANYTHING, that includes believing in some deity, or anything else. again, you have ascribed your own definition of what it is to be an atheist, and now you are trying to define me by your definition.

You sound confused, good luck my g

sure, i'm confused. we're all confused, then. no matter what we think. difference is i accept i am confused. i accept man doesnt know everything. and i search for the answers. while others will just sit there and say, "must be god" or "must be a concept outside of our perception" which sounds ridiculous.

 

[thekingsmen]

yeah i know

There were a few black families around my grandfather who had the "Black Jesus" on the walls. So to bunch all blacks believing in "white jesus" is naive.

 

[African Peasant]

i cant speak on that only what happens in this country. and i think that any rejection of that jesus^^^^^^ is healthy and productive

I can't speak for African-Americans.

But as an African, If I reject christianity for racial reasons ("it's the white man religion"), I won't turn into an atheist. I will go back to the religion of my ancestors. Some of my friends already did that.

You can be an atheist if you want, but that blackatheist stuff is just incoherent, at least for an african like me. My ancestors were not atheists.

 

[the cac mamba]

There were a few black families around my grandfather who had the "Black Jesus" on the walls. So to bunch all blacks believing in "white jesus" is naive.

when did i say all? i think id be pretty confident in throwing a healthy bet at more than 50%

and of course maybe im wrong the mainstream legacy of 'jesus' in america, IS a white man

 

[thekingsmen]

when did i say all? i think id be pretty confident in throwing a healthy bet at more than 50%

and of course maybe im wrong the mainstream legacy of 'jesus' in america, IS a white man

Mainstream leans toward white.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

nikka you quoted my post I clearly said existential curiousity I didnt say born with a concept of god. You're trying to hard.

Why put agnosticism aside? It makes a lot more sense to be agnostic than atheist

What you said was "atheism is just as bad as any other organised religion", and now you've wandered onto another path saying - you're not innately clued in to the concept of a "god", but existentially curious. I'll ask again, how did you come to the conclusion of the former - I already know THE conclusion - how did you come to it?

And no it doesn't 'make a lot more sense' to be agnostic than atheist. I advise you to look up what "sense" means.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

No it's not, this thread is to discredit something, based on what a group thinks is fact. Non Believers call believers dumb when neither party can provide facts. Only idiots look at theory as if it is fact. At the end of the day both parties are putting faith in theory.

That doesn't make any sense.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Oh look, black atheists are attention whoring as usual.......

The irony.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Perfect example of what Atheist do. They claim something and when you ask them for proof, they respond like this.

Do you believe in seeing your own reflection?

 

[Sauce Dab]

I just let people believe what they believe but atheists are annoying because they always feel the need to announce what they are like anybody cares

 

[tmonster]

Atheist mentality + debating =

 

[tmonster]

I just let people believe what they believe but atheists are annoying because they always feel the need to announce what they are like anybody cares

The irony coming from people openly wearing little statues of a dead dude on a cross everywhere they go tawkin bout other people always needing to tell others what they all about

 

[Sauce Dab]

The irony coming from people openly wearing little statues of a dead dude on a cross everywhere they go tawkin bout other people always needing to tell otgers what they all about

Yeah you're right

Spoiler

still see more atheist doing this tho

 

[DreadBrown]

What you said was "atheism is just as bad as any other organised religion", and now you've wandered onto another path saying - you're not innately clued in to the concept of a "god", but existentially curious. I'll ask again, how did you come to the conclusion of the former - I already know THE conclusion - how did you come to it?

And no it doesn't 'make a lot more sense' to be agnostic than atheist. I advise you to look up what "sense" means.

What the fukk is wrong with you, read through our discourse again. Apart from my first post in here the rest of my responses were answers to your questions fukkboy so don't talk to me about wandering onto another path. I don't make a habit of talking in circles and I'm not going to re-quote our convo in the post and walk you through it.

If you lack the comprehension skills to understand what I've written to you thus far let's not take this any further.

 

[DreadBrown]

what are you even saying? what are these "concepts outside our perception" you keep referring to? i accept the most plausible explanation. i reject the belief in things that lack a plausible existence.

it sounds like you are saying, "well...its possible there is some stuff out there that has zero evidence of existence because it completely operates outside of our perception, but that doesnt mean it doesnt exist." thats really just a god of the gaps argument, which is really just a lazy cop out.



did you even read my last post? you missed my whole point. atheism isnt really "taking a stance". the only "stance" i am taking is on the side of rational thinking. im not going to blindly accept ANYTHING, that includes believing in some deity, or anything else. again, you have ascribed your own definition of what it is to be an atheist, and now you are trying to define me by your definition.



sure, i'm confused. we're all confused, then. no matter what we think. difference is i accept i am confused. i accept man doesnt know everything. and i search for the answers. while others will just sit there and say, "must be god" or "must be a concept outside of our perception" which sounds ridiculous.

Every response you post contradicts the one before, but admittedly you're confused so that actually makes sense.