How many black atheists/agnostics do you know? (Revelation, churches, organizations)
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Here are few in history for you. I see the religious hold on the black population being more a social issue then a religious one. This short list shows the tide is changing just like the rest of the world regardless of the racial background..
Hubert Henry Harrison - The Black Socrates A. Philip Randolph - "We consider prayer as nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is." Bayard Rustin - Principal organizer of the March on Washington in 1963. He was openly gay, anti-communistic, a socialist, a civil rights activist and also a freethinker J. A. Rogers - "The slogan of the Negro devotee is: Take the world but give me Jesus, and the white man strikes an eager bargain with him." George S. Schuyler - "On the horizon loom a growing number of iconoclasts and Atheists, young black [sic] men and women who can read, think, and ask questions, and who impertinently demand to know why Negroes should revere a God who permits them to be lynched, jim-crowed and disfranchised." John G. Jackson - The family minister once asked John G. Jackson when he was small, "Who made you?" After some thought he replied from his own realization, "I don’t know." John Henrik Clarke - "As a grade school child in Columbus, Georgia, Clarke recalled inventing notes from local white people to allow his access to library books in his quest for knowledge." Yosef ben-Jochannan - "The churches can’t help the people when the chips are down because their interest is with the power structure." Bobby E. Wright - "Guess what you talk about when you go to church? Everything but what to do, you talk about some God that nobody ever did find." John Ragland - Chauncey Bell Herbert Brown Ken Hamblin Walter E. Hawkins James Forman - Civil Rights Activist Lorraine Hansberry - Playwright known for her drama, "A Raisin in The Sun". FFRF Mention Butterfly McQueen - Maid in MGM's 1939's Gone with The Wind.“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Oct. 8, 1989 Charlie "Bird" Parker - was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. A PBS special on the life of "Bird" (i.e., Charlie Parker) quoted his widow as criticizing Parker's family for giving him a Christian funeral even though they knew "he was irreligious".
Pagans are not Atheists, but some of you so-called atheists are maybe pagan. THe reason I write this is because it seems to be that there is the consensus for violating the alienation in people for the explanation that it has a mental state of redeemed denial of evolution for the spirit in the Other.
...there is the consensus for violating the alienation in people for the explanation that it has a mental state of redeemed denial of evolution for the spirit in the Other.
I'm black and an atheist. I went to an HBCU and knew several black people there that were atheists. There are more of us than you think. Religion still plays a big role in the black community. No denying that. But more and more black people are leaving the faith once they realize it doesn't directly impact their daily lives. I guess the same could be said for other races. Not just black people.
I am from a diverse group of races, most notable ones are Italian, Irish, and African-American. All sides of my family are very religious, each in a different way. I'm kinda the outcast in the family, as I started viewing myself as an Atheist as early as 14 years old, and I didn't really open up to my family until I was 17. My mom was a Christian, but she is very intelligent and being Italian/Irish and dating someone who is mostly black, she obviously would disagree with a lot of the horrible things that most Christians kinda ignore from the bible. Things like Slavery, Mass Murder, etc. Once I opened up and informed her about such things, she started questioning the bible herself, so I think she is leaning more agnostic now.
I'm black, not an atheist but I don't have a religion. Though I'm kinda of like a melting pot of most philosophical teachings of the ancients(indigenous) and eastern philosophies. Most people call it a phase because I'm 17, but I know it's not.
The real distaste I have for Christianity and other organized religion is the mass mind control it seems to have upon African-Americans in the country, though we still have some African characteristics of worshipping in the church (praise and worshipping, the holy ghost dance, shouting etc.) but there's no spiritual gain in accepting a god who loves you unconditionally, but is a jealous god who sends you to hell because you a homosexual, but u live "Christ-like."
Another thing is the tithes and offering system, it can be used for personal gain by deception and guilt. Such as "God told me that if you give me a hundred dollars you will receive ten-fold of that, now in the congregation god said that is 20 of you doing his work, come on down.." And of course 20 people get suckered into it and feel as if they've done "God's work" for the church.
We who are African descendants and even those of Native American blood know most of our ancestors most likely did not agree or want to be christians and we lost our heritage and a great deal of our history succumbing to the christianity ways and even worse materializing what was left of the spiritual essence behind it.
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i'm a black atheist
