Are Black Christians Grateful for Slavery/Colonization?

[MarcMan]

Just what it says on the box.

Our people weren't Christians before being physically and psychologically invaded by Europeans. Given that people don't willingly just convert to different religions en masse, it's a safe bet that we wouldn't be Christian today.

Given that a core Christian tenet is that believers go to heaven and non-believers to hell, would it not rationally follow that they would prefer slavery->heaven over freedom->hell? Would they view it akin to a surgical procedure, a painful but necessary process?

Educate me my pious brehs and brehettes.

 

[African Peasant]

 

[Brolic Scholar]

In.

 

[Turk]

I'm not even Christian but what an incredibly stupid and absurd thread. Strawmen arguments and logical stupidities all throughout that post

 

[get these nets]

Just what it says on the box.

Our people weren't Christians before being physically and psychologically invaded by Europeans. Given that people don't willingly just convert to different religions en masse, it's a safe bet that we wouldn't be Christian today.

Given that a core Christian tenet is that believers go to heaven and non-believers to hell, would it not rationally follow that they would prefer slavery->heaven over freedom->hell? Would they view it akin to a surgical procedure, a painful but necessary process?

Educate me my pious brehs and brehettes.

The bolded part is true for majority of the Christian world.
If you read a book or article about the spread of Christianity across Europe, you'd know this to be true.

 

[get these nets]

OP

If you're not trolling...this could be a very interesting thread, but the days of "gotcha" or" finger pointing" are long gone.

The languages we currently speak, our last names, & even the gods we worship are based on wars and conflicts fought centuries ago . I'm down with examining and even challenging things, but we already did what I think you're trying to do in the 1990s.

 

[cjlaw93]

Honestly I think so

 

[Wildhundreds]

OP, did you know white people were FIRST to be beating into christianity?

 

[MikelArteta]

The coli dot com

 

[Majestic]

Wtf?

 

[get these nets]

Just what it says on the box.

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The irony of the choice of avatar....

 

[TheDarkCloud]

Lmfao.

OP, you inebriated breh?

 

[MarcMan]

OP

If you're not trolling...this could be a very interesting thread, but the days of "gotcha" or" finger pointing" are long gone.

The languages we currently speak, our last names, & even the gods we worship are based on wars and conflicts fought centuries ago . I'm down with examining and even challenging things, but we already did what I think you're trying to do in the 1990s.

I'm not trolling. Nor do I care to challenge people's religious beliefs. I understand such beliefs are deeply held and personal and as I mentioned I'm agnostic and I won't pretend to know the unknowable. I just think it's a healthy exercise to reflect on why we do the things that we do. Believers tell non-believers all the time not to conflate being religious with being ignorant and I completely agree. If you are Christian just because Mom and/or Dad went to X church over Y church, I can understand how thinking about these things may cause discomfort. But if you are a thinking Christian (and I know many that are) you likely have already chewed over questions such as these. I'm just curious as to what people came up with.

 

[PhonZhi]

I've met 2 highly religious black people in my life who both have said that slavery was basicly needed and a "gift" from GOD in order to get us on the right path.

There are black people out there with this mindset

 

[MarcMan]

OP, did you know white people were FIRST to be beating into christianity?

Are you implying that because something happened to whites, we should be ok with it happening to us? I would disagree with that.

But let's not get off the topic of the thread. If you are a black Christian, would you say slavery and colonization has been a net good?