I've often wondered about the attraction of Christianity to African American folks. I certainly don't mean to offend African American Christians with this but it seems paradoxical. They worship a god who was crammed downed their throats by white people who enslaved and tortured their ancestors. I can understand the psychological need for something greater than themselves and their circumstances to believe in given their conditions at the time, but how their belief has sustained for so long is very interesting to me. I'm be curious to hear thoughts on this.

Not just racist. Add sexist, and most of the bigotries that exist. The guy actually orders genocide over and over.

You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

Anne Lamott

Inherently to posit a monotheistic religion, you have to be saying that your god is the One True God (or, at a minimum, that your understanding is the One Correct Understanding of that God). As @genessa points out, it does not therefore follow that all non-adherents are under hellthreat. For example, you could push some version of universal reconciliation, which says that the grace of this deity is so extensive and irresistible that eventually all will be reconciled to him.

As for Christianity vs Islam, that is the same deity with different names and a different belief system surrounding it so they are at emnity with each other based entirely on theological disagreements. Or from our perspective, based entirely on imaginary problems. I suppose that could be said to be true even if they had different deities, as the deities themselves are imaginary. But it seems to reduce in people's minds simplistically to "who has the right god" and it seems particularly unfortunate and foolish to be arguing the untentable position that no one on the "other" side has good faith or intentions and is therefore a heretic worthy of death -- despite having the same deity.

Chance he's racist? CHANCE?

i was raised in a secular jewish family and have been an atheist since i was 15, which is a LONG, long time ago, but i know more about judaism than my upbringing would indicate, and i happen to know that in judaism there IS no "wrong" religion. jews do not proselytize because there is no requirement for everyone to be jewish. there isn't even the same number of commandments for jews and for nonjews. there also is no heaven or hell as a christian or muslim would understand it (there is in some eastern european jewish folklore but that doesn't count lol). in addition, religion and race are not the same thing. but it's all moot since there is no god whatsoever.

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