What Will Replace Religion In The Black Community?

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Honestly, I can see a resurgence of the religious right grabbing America by the collar again in the next 10-20 years.

Happened before with blacks who lived up north during the 20's who were atheist mainly.

 

[Son of Darkness]

Self empowerment

I was never a fan of Malcolm X but I think this applies here:

 

[duncanthetall]

Only way nikkas give up their fairy tales is if some actual proof came out. Like some aliens who dropped us here come back. I mean even then prolly not

 

[MarcMan]

Good response. I guess I'm basically looking for what else would allow for the same dedication and organization that religion provides for a lot of black people. In the hardest times when we've had nothing else we could always fall back on religion. I look at how many people my age are rejecting religion, and wonder what they will fall back on. Back when my parents forced me to go to church, I noticed that as I got older fewer and fewer young people would attend. Its kind of sad, actually.

Sure I think we as a people fell back on religion because that's all we had, especially during slavery/indentured servitude. We had no escape so in order to cope we had to believe there was some light at the end of this dark tunnel. The brain is amazingly flexible and will adapt how it needs to in order to deal with the circumstances before us. There is a reason why religiousness is observed more among the poor than the wealthy. It's true on a macro level as well. Observe how religious the poorest nations are relative to their richer counterparts.

As for what black people will eventually fall back on? As our status improves, our social lives will revolve more and more around interests more associated with a higher class; education, material things, tech, whatever.

 

[Ol’Otis]

Murray's or sporting waves brehs

 

[Black Sinatra]

It should be collectivism.

The black american however, is conditioned extensively to survive...and not live. This hampers collective empowerment due to individuality, jealosy, and envy based logic. Our people have an issue with graduality en processes to concert a long term effect solution or goal. We want what we want...and we want it now. This has to be conditioned out.

The biggest is a pillar on self love...not external hate. As religion preaches loving thy neighbor, removing the spooky concept of reward for doing so...we turn into our oppressor and hate thy neighbor for what he has done. This redeems no reward that is tangable other than waste of energy and time better spent learning your history and building on the greatest of os that have preceeded us.

 

[Knuckles Red]

Sure I think we as a people fell back on religion because that's all we had, especially during slavery/indentured servitude. We had no escape so in order to cope we had to believe there was some light at the end of this dark tunnel. The brain is amazingly flexible and will adapt how it needs to in order to deal with the circumstances before us. There is a reason why religiousness is observed more among the poor than the wealthy. It's true on a macro level as well. Observe how religious the poorest nations are relative to their richer counterparts.

As for what black people will eventually fall back on? As our status improves, our social lives will revolve more and more around interests more associated with a higher class; education, material things, tech, whatever.

This is interesting because it seems like even rich black people are still really religious, especially here in the south. And what about all these megachurches with these pastors who make millions of dollars? The bolded sound ideal, but in all actuality these black people who are rejecting religion will probably just get ostracized by those who still do follow it. I see this causing a big rift within our community which is the very last thing we need.

 

[BlackBall]

materialism and narcissism like the rest of the world

 

[wickedsm]

This sounds good on paper, but we have to remember one of the biggest reasons religion has remained so relevant throughout history in the first place. People are

communal. To be human is to be communal. And this is one of the biggest benefits that Christianity, and more specifically the church, has provided black people. Us

coming together and leaning on one another in times of need through fellowship under one roof has provided us with such a sense of community. I can remember my

grandmother cooking for her preacher, and him coming over to eat her food. Its not just about the scripture. Think about all the other things religion has provided us.

I'm just struggling to see what else, these days, provides the same amount of positive benefits. All of these black people rejecting religion I just wonder what their

replacing it with.

This explains better where you're coming from.
Thanks.

 

[MarcMan]

This is interesting because it seems like even rich black people are still really religious, especially here in the south. And what about all these megachurches with these pastors who make millions of dollars? The bolded sound ideal, but in all actuality these black people who are rejecting religion will probably just get ostracized by those who still do follow it. I see this causing a big rift within our community which is the very last thing we need.

Precisely. The first bolded point follows the second. As a wealthy black person who still wants to be within the black community, you had better damn well be religious. Or act like it. Look at their daily lives and you will see just how little a role religion actually plays into it.

I rub shoulders with middle and upper-class blacks all day. They are a lot of things but religious typically ain't one. The same could be said for people of means in all races.

 

[IVS]

Black folks would be dumb to leave the church. The church is a tax free institution and it can be used to raise money and fund all types of ventures. If anything we need to found secret societies to infiltrate the church and subvert it for more proper uses like owning banks and gentrification. Hell dont tell me these prosperity pimps esp the mega one's are not in cahoots.

I dont care about the religion. I see the value in the church. The religion is nonsense. We need to develop an ideology separate from that religion, and propagate it thru the church. Bascially we'll make Christianity a front, for the advancement and preservation of black culture, like the Vatican does with the advancement and preseravation of Latin culture. Them priest dont believe any of that sh!t they preach, but they recognize what they can accomplish thru the institution.

 

[Concerning VIolence]

Problems facing black people today:
>lack of employment opportunities amongst black people.
>kids born out of wedlock. one too many single black mothers and deadbeat dads.]
>abortions rates high among black women than any other race.
>high gun violence in black neighborhoods.
>poor living conditions and extreme poverty in black neighborhoods.
>gangstas, drug dealers, rappers, video vixens, strippers, "instagram models" and athletes seen as role models in the black community.


Blame Christianity!

I bet every single last one of those people are also "christians".

 

[Son of Darkness]

I bet every single last one of those people are also "christians".

If the black community in the US truly* adopted Christianity, 90% of the problems they face today would end in an instant.

*(as in by deeds and not merely lip service)

 

[LadySimone]

Nihilism

Edit: hedonism

 

[The Mad Titan]

So as human beings with common sense and logic, we have come to a point in society where we think over all there is no God or true religion? That all this order (natural laws and physic's) just worked it self out. That's harder for me to believe than anything else.