Black Spirituality Religion : Why in the world did slaves believe in the christian god?

[candeesweet]

at this point of mans development...the only thing of sustenance we have created thus far is life....
since every life has the potential to be a game changer on this planet we call earth...
hasn't happened yet....maybe one day it will...
that being said...christianity has been linked to more deaths than nuclear weapons
and should be viewed in that category of WEAPONS....

one love
khasm

You right they already have a counsel.

 

[awakeoisrael]

By and large, twins were seen as evil, even in Igbo land. And Efik land is Calabar. Not fair to compare Efik and Ibibio with the entire Igbo land. These were just a part of then Cross River state.

And to your question, HOPE is the reason. For deliverance, or better days ahead. The slaves were actually people of the Most High.

 

[Aquilla]

I don't get it. They're feed this story about an all-loving god who loves and protects them yet everyday they live their lives in fear of being beaten, raped or killed. They believe that praying and having faith will get them through it yet generations of them live and die in agony and fear. It's truly inconceivable to me.

I didn't want to talk about this because I know a lot of people here are christian and have strong feelings about their religion but I was just watching a program about segregation and I found some of the imagery and words too much to bare. I had to keep looking away and turning the channel until I just turned the TV off. I can't imagine how slavery was compared to this. I can't see why anyone back then or now would still believe that an all-loving god is looking over them.

Another thing is how some black activist talk about how god will help them against the white supremacists yet it was the white supremacist who taught (or maybe even forced) the idea of god upon them in the first place. Someone please explain to me how any of this makes sense. If someone were beating you up badly and kept talking about a righteous being that can "save" you, would you have strong faith that this righteous being that your attacker is talking about will help save you from that person? All the while the attacker is saying that he is also in the being's good grace?

I understand how you feel. Recently, I have been studying black history; and I have been learning how the bible, Christianity, and black culture play a major role. The bible was commissioned through the capitol church in Rome by the pope. A lot of the stories in the bible can be traced back to Kemet. In my mind, the bible is written in code. If you dissect it, it is really telling you a true story - just not the one everyone is used to hearing. I think that it would be unintelligent to believe anything that our enemies throw at our feet without first evaluating the benefit of it to you and the oppose. In my mind, the bible is a tool that is used to control a person because most people are religious; and if you throw in enough scary consequences, people will fall in line. If you are trying to control a people, you will either have to kill them, make them fear you, or lock them away. Fear is the greater tactic to control.

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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The point about the Bible you've made below is very interesting, would you say more about the true story it tells?

... If you dissect it, it is really telling you a true story - just not the one everyone is used to hearing.

 

[Chevron Dove]

I understand how you feel. Recently, I have been studying black history; and I have been learning how the bible, Christianity, and black culture play a major role. The bible was commissioned through the capitol church in Rome by the pope. A lot of the stories in the bible can be traced back to Kemet. In my mind, the bible is written in code. If you dissect it, it is really telling you a true story - just not the one everyone is used to hearing. I think that it would be unintelligent to believe anything that our enemies throw at our feet without first evaluating the benefit of it to you and the oppose. In my mind, the bible is a tool that is used to control a person because most people are religious; and if you throw in enough scary consequences, people will fall in line. If you are trying to control a people, you will either have to kill them, make them fear you, or lock them away. Fear is the greater tactic to control.

Well said!
Thank you!