Why are atheists so overwhelmingly white and male?

[Van Cleef]

better than devoting your time and energy to a lie.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

some of the responses in this thread are borderline retarded especially coming from black people.. you worship a god that was enforced upon you by the white man, a religion and a book that that was institutional in dehumanizing and violating your ancestors, yet you still cling to these things

All this is false….

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

I'm more curious on why religion has such a mental stranglehold on the people.

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Whenever I hear a so called black atheists say he has trouble dating black women I already know that he has a hard time getting p*ssy to begin with, or just dates a lot of non black women in general because that’s what he prefers:.. If you check most boxes, most sistas under the age of 32 won’t give a solitary fukk about your non beliefs when it comes to a higher power

 

[Amo Husserl]

If you think your God then how can you believe in one

Believing in yourself...?

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I'm more curious on why religion has such a mental stranglehold on the people.

It doesn’t. Very few Christians actually practice Christianity… can’t speak for Muslims

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

some of the responses in this thread are borderline retarded especially coming from black people.. you worship a god that was enforced upon you by the white man, a religion and a book that that was institutional in dehumanizing and violating your ancestors, yet you still cling to these things..

i'm not even saying i'm against anyone practicing religion.. do what you think is best for you, but without understanding they whys or the hows behind it, you're just gonna end up being even more lost..

To be fair, it was being forced on whites long before they got to us. Along with political developments (the creation of nation-states), some type of religious unity was necessary to "unite" thousands of otherwise self-interested European clans and tribes.

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

To be real, I feel like the majority of younger black people are atheist/agnostic but just don't feel comfortable espousing those beliefs.

There's no way you can believe in an actual hell and still be into the demonic shyt a lot of people in our community be on. I mean hell aren't we #1 in abortions?

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

It doesn’t. Very few Christians actually practice Christianity… can’t speak for Muslims

Didn't ask who "practiced Christianity," asked about the mental stranglehold religious ideas have on the global population.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

To be real, I feel like the majority of younger black people are atheist/agnostic but just don't feel comfortable espousing those beliefs.

There's no way you can believe in an actual hell and still be into the demonic shyt a lot of people in our community be on. I mean hell aren't we #1 in abortions?

Many populations have performed demonic acts in the name of religion? This has been the case since the beginning of religion.

Not sure I understand your point.

 

[TripleAgent]

i know plenty of black atheists or at the very least non-religious black people. i would personally classify myself as agnostic. i think millennials are just less religious in general, especially in california, maybe it's still huge in the south. not that i didn't grow up going to church or around older religious people, but most of the people from my generation are not. also a lot of my friends are college educated, not trying to say anything about level of education and religious belief, but i do think it tends to have more atheists.

white people just the ones who are obsessed with it and love to talk about it like it's the most important issue in their life.

belief in god or religion is one of the least important issues in my life. yes i know some people can make arguments that theocrats/theocracy are some of the main problems in our political discourse, especially in this upcoming election, when you look at issues like abortion or the ongoing conflict in gaza/israel, but i tend to believe a lot of the people pushing these things aren't actually religious. they're opportunists using some fanatics. i think an issue like abortion stems from straight up weirdos wanting to have some control over women that isn't necessarily from the bible and i believe the gaza/israel conflict is totally racism based. it actually has a lot less to do with religion than the jews will have you think.

Generationally, the Black Church will fall off more and more, because they're more about pimping the collection plate, and don't do shyt for the community. While I feel practicing the slavemaster's religion is retarded, at least back in the day, the church was the resistance and was a community helping organization. Now it's just another hustle.

 

[DonB90]

Believing in yourself...?

Thats what we're calling white suprmacy now

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Didn't ask who "practiced Christianity," asked about the mental stranglehold religious ideas have on the global population.

Doesn’t have a stronghold unless you practice it…. Share some examples of this stranglehold you’re referring to

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

The irony is that them real white folk hate GOD and understand the less spirtitual the citizenry is, the weaker they will be and easier to control

 

[ViShawn]

Yes I jumped to the people ruining our country the people you talked about are border line white supremacists who have zero power so you also jumped to fukking extremists.

I don’t want to hear shyt about “militant atheists” when the people that are stripping us of our rights and in every arm of government are Christians. Spare me your bullshyt I’m not interested in it

I’m tired of y’all equating folks that have no power in this country to folks who quite literally ruined everything and destroying peoples lives. Miss me with that bullshyt

You may find this book interesting because it talks about Progressive Christians and how many were pushed out of Christianity and "othered"

I agree with you that Christianity and religion as a whole has been used to do some of the most atrocious things on Earth! But there has been sects of Christianity that fought for progress. If it weren't for the Black Church then we wouldn't have had the Civil Rights Movement. There were also progressive Jewish people and Catholics that fought for our rights in this country.

I will say in our country that when one thinks of the Religious Right we think of Protestants mostly. This is a bit of an erasure of Christianity and those who are more left leaning and fought for human rights, equality, etc.