How is this better than atheism?

Mowgli

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Because that's selectively showing what Christianity is. There are countless churches where that kind of stuff doesn't go on. How about showing people that left gangs, left prostitution, got off drugs and turned their life around once they accepted Jesus as savior and ask that same question?

How is religion holding blacks back when most people don't even follow their religion? If they did, the clubs wouldn't be full on the weekend and there wouldn't be babies out of wedlock
No one left a gang because of atheism
 

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For every wrong You can find a church giving out food every damn day, giving kids scholarships etc.

You don't need organized religion to do these things though. We're allegedly this "higher level" species but we need a promise to be blessed by God to do good for each other?

Not saying there aren't people with innate good wills who are religious or attend church, but (to paraphrase Martin Luther) if your main reason for these good deeds are to ensure your passage to Heaven, then you're really just a phoney putting up a front. Good people do good things regardless of some eternal reward :unimpressed:
 

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You don't need organized religion to do these things though. We're allegedly this "higher level" species but we need a promise to be blessed by God to do good for each other?

Not saying there aren't people with innate good wills who are religious or attend church, but (to paraphrase Martin Luther) if your main reason for these good deeds are to ensure your passage to Heaven, then you're really just a phoney putting up a front. Good people do good things regardless of some eternal reward :unimpressed:



I do good regardless. I'm not here to covert You church hurt/ da white manes' god enslaved our peoples brehs. I stand firm on what I believe for me and mine.

Touche about church just like you don't need to live in a black neighborhood or go to an african centred school to be for the betterment of ya peoples. Folks like Jermain Shoemake aka Umar Johnson swears You do.

I live in a well off neighborhood I'm the only breh out here. Yet I was passed down property in a will. I go back to the neighborhood and give back daily.
 

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The Pentecostal/Holiness Churches are syncretic. Christianity + African Indigenous Religion.

See also:
Haitian Vodoo
Santeria
Candomble
Umbanda
The adoption of all three Abrahamic religion by African groups was a syncretic process too, as is the case for many cultural exchanges.

But that nuanced reality doesn't allow to paint their Black followers as worshippers of the "white man's god" or the "sand cac's god", so it gets tossed to the side for superficial understandings of "traditional" African religions, as if many of those Abrahamic manifestations weren't traditional themselves.
 

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I do good regardless. I'm not here to covert You church hurt/ da white manes' god enslaved our peoples brehs. I stand firm on what I believe for me and mine.

Touche about church just like you don't need to live in a black neighborhood or go to an african centred school to be for the betterment of ya peoples. Folks like Jermain Shoemake aka Umar Johnson swears You do.

I live in a well off neighborhood I'm the only breh out here. Yet I was passed down property in a will. I go back to the neighborhood and give back daily.

How much does "being a Christian" factor into the good that you do?
 

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Her waving at dude giving him the signal and he wasn’t cooperating at first :pachaha:
Dude no-sold it like Hulk Hogan
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