Why are there barely any young black adults in church?
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We hopped off the religious slave ship
You lost
You'll only catch me in church for
1. Someone's wedding
2. Someone's funeral
Hold allll the daps.
Mr. McDowell
The Brotha's Got His Own Money
iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
After growing up in the church, I've comfortably settled into being a deist. My biggest fault with religion resides within myself. I simply started to ask questions and I really didn't like the answers coming my way. There was always a catch, a justification for something and in a lot of cases, nonsensical from my perspective. It took a long time for me to be comfortable with that. I struggle with the concept of faith in the context that the bible wants a person to believe in it. There is almost a suspension of belief that needs to happen and my mind simply will not allow for that to happen. Once I realized all of that, I had to settle on what my religious ideology ultimately resided. Deism is that I believe that something created all of this due to the rules that nature seems to follow, phenomena, etc. but in the case of Satan and the rest, no, I don't. The tenor of how god is presented is different between the old and new testament. Which one reflects the current one? You can pick story after story in the bible and I look and say, how do I follow something that appears to have a lower moral compass than I have for myself. I thought we were all god's children. Why is he directing the killing of innocent first-born children? Why did he flood the earth? Why did he make Abraham sacrifice his own daughter? The list goes on and on.
The story of Job is the biggest clusterfukk to me.
So, god and satan have a bet, so obviously they are on good enough terms to shoot the shyt with each other, place a friendly wager on the head of a person and his family, even though its prophesied in revelations that satan is going to get his shyt ultimately pushed in by god when it's all said and done. Anyways, they have a bet, god's idea by the way to have the bet that said that satan can fukk with Job in whatever say he pleases and Job will not curse god. Satan supposedly kills wife, kids, animals, gives the man boils, burns down his house and makes him poor and then Job questions gods, saying he wishes he was dead, god basically tells him to shut the fukk up and man up. Ultimately, Job gets new wealth, wife, kids, etc... To my questions.
Not to mention that it is logistically impossible for all of the animals to fit in Noah's ark as described, like someone said, for predators and prey to sit together in harmony basically. He could have just had all the wicked people killed if he wanted to, flooding of assuredly, some decent people in the midst of it all, was a bit of overkill. Brehs, they thought the sun went around the earth in those days.
So, a lot of the lessons that the bible teaches should be common sense, don't kill, don't steal, basically live life by the golden rule. Do unto others as you would like done to you. Most times, things will work out in the long run.
The story of Job is the biggest clusterfukk to me.
So, god and satan have a bet, so obviously they are on good enough terms to shoot the shyt with each other, place a friendly wager on the head of a person and his family, even though its prophesied in revelations that satan is going to get his shyt ultimately pushed in by god when it's all said and done. Anyways, they have a bet, god's idea by the way to have the bet that said that satan can fukk with Job in whatever say he pleases and Job will not curse god. Satan supposedly kills wife, kids, animals, gives the man boils, burns down his house and makes him poor and then Job questions gods, saying he wishes he was dead, god basically tells him to shut the fukk up and man up. Ultimately, Job gets new wealth, wife, kids, etc... To my questions.
- Why does god need to prove something to someone when he (1) knows everything, (2) created satan and is going to fukk him up a few millenia from that date so satan's opinion doesn't matter.
- From a human emotion side, you don't just off someone's family without there being residue of emotion there. You don't just replace a new family like you do a new washer and dryer brehs. So we are talking about multiple people killed for shyts and giggles here. That reads like a disney movie but this is supposedly real. My morality code siren is blaring like fukk just thinking about it
Not to mention that it is logistically impossible for all of the animals to fit in Noah's ark as described, like someone said, for predators and prey to sit together in harmony basically. He could have just had all the wicked people killed if he wanted to, flooding of assuredly, some decent people in the midst of it all, was a bit of overkill. Brehs, they thought the sun went around the earth in those days.
So, a lot of the lessons that the bible teaches should be common sense, don't kill, don't steal, basically live life by the golden rule. Do unto others as you would like done to you. Most times, things will work out in the long run.
No one knows..someone would have had to come back from the dead to inform us, but that hasnt happened so
Aba_juggin
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There's always talk about spirits intervening on a divine behalf across all cultures though.No one knows..someone would have had to come back from the dead to inform us, but that hasnt happened so
And if you have already accepted God as your creator and saviour, why then spend time in church..makes no sense. Study your bible at home with your family, not b*stardized teachings from a crooked Pastor.
I like how they think we in the last days now but the world has gone through shyt like the middle ages wwII and the flu epidemic of the early 1900s but now is the end times.
Or how about the Christian Crusades that went on for centuries. Christians never speak about their bloody ass history. Christians brought the end times to so many people (slavery included) yet they never once teach about it at all in church.
StretfordRed
Afro-European
I wish less black people in the church too
This world is too big to be automatically passed a religion instrumental to white supremacy. Pastors straight bullshytting people whilst lining their pockets, banging other people besides their partners, etc. Modern religion is a sham.
I think if our people did a more thorough examination of Christianity from the outside in, they’d see the truth behind it.
I am agnostic. But I believe in something. But not a blonde haired, blue eyed white Jesus
This world is too big to be automatically passed a religion instrumental to white supremacy. Pastors straight bullshytting people whilst lining their pockets, banging other people besides their partners, etc. Modern religion is a sham.
I think if our people did a more thorough examination of Christianity from the outside in, they’d see the truth behind it.
I am agnostic. But I believe in something. But not a blonde haired, blue eyed white Jesus
Remember it was illegal to teach slaves to read, but it was acceptable and even encouraged to teach them the current incarnation of Christianity. "Turn the other cheek" "Forgive your oppressor" etc.
Remember this brand of Christianity was an active tool in the colonization and pillaging of Africa.
This is not a religion that has served us well.
Remember this brand of Christianity was an active tool in the colonization and pillaging of Africa.
This is not a religion that has served us well.
UserNameless
Veteran
Must be in a predominately white area ... for cities with 300k-500k and up with a black population of at least 20-22% and up, you’ll find at least one predominately black mega church with many, single 20s and 30s something’s and a thriving ministry aimed at that demographic.