Is it hard for older black christians to accept

[hayesc0]

Religious or Spiritual? To me Religion is ceremony, whereas Spiritualism is belief.

A lot of people are religious, but they may not be spiritual. I have known lots and lots of people that were spiritual, but they were not religious.

Religious im only speaking about religion following shyt that is in a 2000 year old book thats what im talking about and doing it blindly.

 

[StickStickly]

O.K.

But even in terms of religion; pasts generations were not as straight jacketed as you think. Think about it; the people that went on to join the Nation of Islam were actually people whose parents were Christians (see Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali). And lots of other Black people never practiced any mainstream religion at all.

Yeah but back then the majority of people blacks and whites were Christian though. The NOI didn't really exist for blacks outside of certain cities. The man is right you were Christian back then and didn't mention anything else. The older generation looks down on black athiests harder than they do drug addicts.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Current generation are free thinkers?

If the previous generations accepted what was basically passed down to them as law then how are Black people no longer in slavery and in Jim Crow? Why or how did the Nation of Islam have such a large following?

The current generation are sheep to social media with their snap chat, gym selfies, bathroom selfies, car selfies, skinny jeans, taking pics of food they are about to eat etc.

 

[Samori Toure]

Yeah but back then the majority of people blacks and whites were Christian though. The NOI didn't really exist for blacks outside of certain cities. The man is right you were Christian back then and didn't mention anything else. The older generation looks down on black athiests harder than they do drug addicts.

Not really. Many of the slaves that were brought to the USA from in and around the Kingdom of Mali were actually Muslims when they were brought to the USA. When you start reading stories about slavery you will realize that the White slave owners forced the slaves to become Christians; because they feared that Muslims could convert the other slaves to Islam and then lead slave revolts in the forms of Jihads. White slave owners even sat in churches with the slaves when they worshiped to make sure that they didn't practice Islam. Yet unbeknownst to many African Americans many remnants of Islam remained in Black churches right up until recent times; like those practiced among the Malinke people in West Africa (men sitting on one side of the church and Women sitting on the other side; doing baptisms in all White sheets).

 

[CashmereThoughts]

Christianity is the greatest c00n con ever

 

[CashmereThoughts]

There's a reason their so adamant about it and you really have to take their wisdom in account.

Old people been through the things that we have yet to go through but eventually will. The only thing that got a lot older black folks through was faith because in their eras, you were looked at as less than human and freely expressing adverse opinions just didn't happen.

"Faith" is what got them in this predicament we are in now. Buying into the ideology of your oppressor and waiting for their "God" to save you is some sick absent minded bullshyt

 

[hayesc0]

The current generation are sheep to social media with their snap chat, gym selfies, bathroom selfies, car selfies, skinny jeans, taking pics of food they are about to eat etc.

This is so strange to me I still dont get it lol.

 

[DaRealness]

We aren't? I've encountered so many millennial Black folk who aren't religious at all.

I'm talking about those who are religious.

 

[Hollywood Co]

"Faith" is what got them in this predicament we are in now. Buying into the ideology of your oppressor and waiting for their "God" to save you is some sick absent minded bullshyt

What predicament are "we" in that rest of the world isn't?

As a black man in America, you are free to persue your passions, express your opinions and more because of those that came before you. Our generation has no prospective. Our situation is not perfect by any means but Black folks around the world are being oppressed mentally physically, spiritually every single day.

You're taking the wisdom of those who came before you lightly and that's a recipe for disaster in my opinion. Their faith changed the narrative for you and me.

Losing faith will lead to progress how exactly? All I see is a lot of talk and dysfunction nowadays.

 

[semtex]

Black Americans walk a tight rope

 

[Will Ross]

America is a christian based nation everyone thinks in things in terms of Christianity

 

[Thsnnor]

that everyone is not Christian. I was at a football game and they did some what of a pray before the game. Now during this the girl saying the pray didn't mention Jesus or anything. When she was done several older black people in front on me went into an up roar about how the pray doesn't mean anything if they don't say in "Jesus name amen". One lady even said she is going to call the school to have them correct that.

My thing is this why is it so hard for blacks(cause I see it mostly with us) to understand everyone isn't Christian and people have different beliefs?

For many older people knowing the result of the blessings of our Lord and seeing how this Nation is turning away from God will only result in the Judgement of God.

If God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow would we not get judged like Israel was?

Many of us are living on the prayers of older relatives. They know what is coming.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

I go to a men's group meeting every other week and they open with a generic prayer. Of course some older brothers did the same thing OP mentioned right after the prayer "I noticed you didn't mention Jesus' name in the prayer" and the dude that runs the meeting was like, "yeah, even though this meeting is in a baptist church, it isn't a Christian only meeting, we have people here from many faiths trying to rebuild the community." You would think it would have ended there

"Yeah but you can't rebuild this community without acknowledging that Jesus is the vehicle to fixing it"
"Ummm, like I said brotha, we have many faiths represented here and we don't want to exclude anybody that may want to help."
"Well you might want to reevaluate the prayer if you don't say who you are praying to."
"If you are suggesting we do a silent prayer from here on, that's something I will consider. That could be a better option."
"No I'm suggesting using the name Jesus in the prayer. Only through Jesus Christ can this be fixed."

Everybody else in the room is straight at this dude.

 

[Ohene]

I go to a men's group meeting every other week and they open with a generic prayer. Of course some older brothers did the same thing OP mentioned right after the prayer "I noticed you didn't mention Jesus' name in the prayer" and the dude that runs the meeting was like, "yeah, even though this meeting is in a baptist church, it isn't a Christian only meeting, we have people here from many faiths trying to rebuild the community." You would think it would have ended there

"Yeah but you can't rebuild this community without acknowledging that Jesus is the vehicle to fixing it"
"Ummm, like I said brotha, we have many faiths represented here and we don't want to exclude anybody that may want to help."
"Well you might want to reevaluate the prayer if you don't say who you are praying to."
"If you are suggesting we do a silent prayer from here on, that's something I will consider. That could be a better option."
"No I'm suggesting using the name Jesus in the prayer. Only through Jesus Christ can this be fixed."

Everybody else in the room is straight at this dude.

fukkin idiots man

 

[Ohene]

Our generation is free thinkers. The previous generations basically accepted what was passed down to them as law and there was an understanding that you didn't challenge your parents.

Meh...a lot of sheep still exist...especially black females. A lot of them accept what they heard growing up and scold anybody who attempts to think outside the box. If you not a god fearing man they want no parts of you