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I'm a Christian agnostic as I call it because I believe in te Christian god,I'm just not really sure about his choices and whether he's really all good while being all knowing. It's a bit weird on how many black people are Christians with all the problems the community has and how much nonstop hell they catch from society and the world . But my sociology class told me that people in powerless position usually are the most religious because they need it to survive .
I am black and agnostic (or atheist is you want to put me in a box). I have a few siblings tat are also non religious and a few uncles too. Most of my family are overwhelmingly christian. I have no faith in god, but then again I don't know everything about the universe and it's history. I still lack a faith in god (biblical events never seemed real to me) and found this fictional character to be sadistic. I don't understand why some believe that you have to believe in a deity or be religious to have morals and values. You don't need a book to dictate your life and the way you live it. You can be a good person without religion and still have good ethical and moral values.
I'm a Christian agnostic as I call it because I believe in te Christian god,I'm just not really sure about his choices and whether he's really all good while being all knowing. It's a bit weird on how many black people are Christians with all the problems the community has and how much nonstop hell they catch from society and the world . But my sociology class told me that people in powerless position usually are the most religious because they need it to survive .
And looking at what black people have gone through the world over, not just with racism, I am not surprised with that analogy.
I am a black atheist and a woman at that and I don't know any black atheist IRL.
I come from a very religious family but never believed in religion, I remember thinking about how dumb it sounded to me as a 6 year old and from 8-12 I was repeatedly thrown out of Vacation Bible School classes for questioning our "lessons." Luckily my family no longer gives me grief about my lack of religion. And I do believe what your sociology class taught you as I fully believe that with the struggles that blacks in this country as a whole faced and many still face in their personal lives (even ones who are well off or at least have a decent financial outlook) they look toward religion to get them through. I see it as a long standing pillar of hope for blacks in this country and that they at least have someone - God who accepts them no matter what and loves them. That is a wonderful thing to have, so I can understand it, but I just am not one who ever needed such a hope or belief and don't feel it necessary for my life.
"By the end of June 2003, it was a done deal. I was barely 35 years old, and I walked away from my vocational career as a minister and from the central idea of Christianity, that Jesus was the savior or all humankind. I did not believe."
There aren't many at all. It's like picking a needle in a haystack. As many people as I've meet, I've never run into a black atheist or they just won't say it. Where I'm from if you are a black atheist, people would assume you have been overcome by demons and need a exorcism.
There aren't many at all. It's like picking a needle in a haystack. As many people as I've meet, I've never run into a black atheist or they just won't say it. Where I'm from if you are a black atheist, people would assume you have been overcome by demons and need a exorcism.
That's hateful, intolerant, and cruel. But many religious folks will have that view or similar.
There aren't many atheists, period. But I get what you are saying. I've been to a few atheist conventions and I rarely saw a black person attending.
I think there is a slight upward swing in atheism but not enough. Someday (not in my lifetime) the majority will look back and see how dumb believing was.
^ There are Black non-believers throughout the South as well myself included. They're just not waving a flag about it. I consider myself agnostic. I know at least a handful of atheist or agnostic Black people here in Nashville.
A2 is a very progressive college town with a lot of well-educated people from all over. I used to live there for four years. It's too small for my taste, but definitely a good place to meet secular people.
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