Why isn't there a major "Black Religion"?

[Poitier]

Judaism, christianity, and islam are semetic religions, not black African.

Aside from contributing to some surrounding belief systems, the Egyptian religion was largely localized.

Nope.

 

[Poitier]

Then dude said " Semitic religions" as if Semitic tongue didn't originate in East Africa

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

I'm saying if you were to look at the beliefs of various native tribes in Africa you would find a common theme, it's tribalism but more importantly a lack of unifying linguistic identity that kept them apart. Africa never had a Muhammad-like figure who was able to unify large swaths of people under one banner, but it was easier for the Arabs because even though there were many tribes/clans, they all spoke Arabic. With Europeans the unifying factor was the Church under Latin, in the Asian religions it was Sanskrit, etc;. The lack of linguistic unity is a major reason why there is no "major" black religion and Africans ended up succumbing to Christianity and Islam.

This. There was never a unifying religion/culture in Africa the way Islam spread among the arabs (or what would become the Arab world) or Christianity in Europe. Africa's very big in term of size and with an enormous linguistic and cultural diversity was never monolithic in religion/culture, even if Islam/Christianity developped a presence in the continent. A lot of the traditional beliefs still survive to this day.

Islam:
Muhammed's grandfather was described as Black, and the Arabs of that time period were Black and brown (mixed). Arabs had various shades of Blackness to refer to. They, for the most part, were melanated peoples. Muhammed has been described as tanned, brown, red, and black, depending on which sources you go with.
Persians/Indo Europeans intermixed with Black/brown Arabs after Islam started to spread; their descendants are white supremacys depiction of Arabs/Muslims.


Christianity:
Not sure if Paul was Black but hes at least mixed, and Christianity started in Palestine. And obviously Jesus was Black or mixed. He and the fam hid in Egypt amongst other Egyptians. Most Egyptians back then were still Black and brown.


Judaism:
The easiest to figure out. It was started by a Black man (Moses), in Egypt (Africa), borrowing African traditions (circumcision) and guidelines (42 negative confessions), that existed before religion existed elsewhere (including Summer)

There are also sources describing Muhammad as a pale-skinned male tho. I've also read that Ali Ibn Abi Talib (4th caliph and his cousin) was a dark skinned man so IDK. And there were definitely white/light skinned arabs at that time breh, even black Africans were considered different than Arabs

The most plausible ethnicity of Jesus is middle eastern breh, possibly brown skinned. Moses was most likely a dark skinned African tho

 

[Poitier]

This. There was never a unifying religion/culture in Africa the way Islam spread among the arabs (or what would become the Arab world) or Christianity in Europe. Africa's very big in term of size and with an enormous linguistic and cultural diversity was never monolithic in religion/culture, even if Islam/Christianity developped a presence in the continent. A lot of the traditional beliefs still survive to this day.

False.

There was definitely a unified culture during the Wet Sahara and prior. Africa wasn't fully inhabited then so size is irrelevant.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

We do have one breh, we're Hebrew

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

False.

There was definitely a unified culture during the Wet Sahara and prior. Africa wasn't fully inhabited then so size is irrelevant.

I'm a bit ignorant on this. Mind educating me?

Also, the wet sahara period was how long ago tho

 

[MaLi]

Judaism, christianity, and islam are semetic religions, not black African.

Aside from contributing to some surrounding belief systems, the Egyptian religion was largely localized.

Semetic languages are east African in origin. East Africans are Black and African.

Noah had 3 sons. Ham, Shem, and Japeth. The sons of Ham populated Africa, the Levant (Palestine), west Arabia, and south Arabia (Yemen). Ham is Black, as are his sons and grandsons (including Nimrod, son of Cush/Nubia).
Thats part of why "Afroncentrists" refer to the Levant as north Africa, and why some Black Arabs arent wrong when they refer to themsevles as Arabs. The thought process is c00nish, but its half true


Ancient Kemetic religion is Ma'at... OR their way of life was based on Maat... Either way, Blackity Black no matter how you slice it

 

[Poitier]

I'm a bit ignorant on this. Mind educating me?

Also, the wet sahara period was how long ago tho

10000 BC-5000 BC all Africans lived on the Sahara from Nigeria to Egypt/Sudan. We only dispersed after it dried. Religion is thought to have developed around 60,000 BC in Africa, shortly after language was created.

The classic account of the riparian lifestyle of this period comes from investigations in Sudan during World War II by British archeologist Anthony Arkell.[5] Arkell's report described a Late Stone Age settlement on a sandbank of the Blue Nile which was then about 12 feet (3.7 m) higher than its present flood stage. The countryside was clearly savanna, not the present-day desert, as evidenced by the bones of the most common species found in the middens — antelope, which require large expanses of seed-bearing grasses. These people probably lived mainly on fish, however, and Arkell concluded, based on the totality of the evidence, that rainfall at the time was at least three times that of today. The physical characteristics derived from skeletal remains suggested that these people were related to modern Nilotic peoples, such as the Nuer and Dinka. Subsequent radiocarbon dating firmly established Arkell's site to between 7000 and 5000 BCE. Based on common patterns at his site and at French-excavated sites already reported from Chad, Mali and Niger (e.g., bone harpoons and a characteristic "wavy line" pottery), Arkell inferred "a common fishing and hunting culture spread by negroid people right across Africa at about the latitude of Khartoum at a time when the climate was so different that it was not desert. The originators of the wavy line pottery are as yet unidentified.

In the 1960s, the archeologist Gabriel Camps investigated the remains of a hunting and fishing community dating from about 6700 BCE in southern Algeria. These pottery-making people (the "wavy line" motif again) were black African rather than Mediterranean in origin and (according to Camps) evidenced definite signs of deliberate cultivation of grain crops as opposed to simply the gathering of wild grains.[6] Later studies at the site have shown the culture to be hunter gatherers and not agriculturalists, as all the grains were morphologically wild, and the society was not sedentary.

Human remains were found by archaeologists in 2000 at a site known as Gobero in the Ténéré Desert of northeastern Niger.[7][8] The Gobero finds represent a uniquely preserved record of human habitation and burials from what is now called the Kiffian (7,700 to 6,200 B.C.) and the Tenerian (5,200 to 2,500 B.C.) cultures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Subpluvial

 

[MaLi]

I'm a bit ignorant on this. Mind educating me?

Also, the wet sahara period was how long ago tho

about 10,000 years ago, around the time the ice started to melt

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Then dude said " Semitic religions" as if Semitic tongue didn't originate in East Africa

The overwhelming majority of Africans are not semites and those religions are not African.

 

[Poitier]

Modern humans have existed for 100,000+ years and were not far off from us cognitively...what do people think they did day to day? They had religious systems before they even left Africa.

 

[Poitier]

The overwhelming majority of Africans are not semites and those religions are not African.

It must hurt to know your whole culture is a corrupted form

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

^^ Good looking out. I knew more or less about this but thought there would be stuff I missed. But was there really a unified religious belief among them?

 

[Poitier]

If you want to see how African religions play a part in Christianity, look no further than the Council of Nicaea.

All these religions are remixes of shyt Africans believed before they stepped foot out that bytch.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

It must hurt to know your whole culture is a corrupted form

You can say that if you want but we both know that's far from being true.