If you still believe in religion after this you are fucking RETARDED.

Some people can’t stand th
Well, I'll be the 1st person to tell you I don't have the answers. I'm just like everyone else just trying to find meaning in it all and enjoying the journey while I'm here.
But it just seems to me that both sides of this ancient debate are handling it the wrong way and treat each other with an ever growing lack of respect & civility... :smh:

True but conflict is just human nature if it wasn’t Religion it could be Race, distribution of wealth, hell people have conflict based on skin complexion, good hair or natural hair, what color you wearing in my neighborhood. You cut me off in traffic it always something. But you definitely doing it the right way I wish everyone did.
 
I got a question for you:

Why doesn't the Bible mention the moon when speaking of the Earth's creation?

The moon is a very important part of Earth's cosmic existence & might be one of the reasons for how life became situated.

So, why doesn't the Bible mention it during creation? Or even later, when it shows up?
 
Some people can’t stand th


True but conflict is just human nature if it wasn’t Religion it could be Race, distribution of wealth, hell people have conflict based on skin complexion, good hair or natural hair, what color you wearing in my neighborhood. You cut me off in traffic it always something. But you definitely doing it the right way I wish everyone did.

100% correct.
No truer statement has ever been made.
You are far wiser than you know my friend... :yes:
 
I got a question for you:

Why doesn't the Bible mention the moon when speaking of the Earth's creation?

The moon is a very important part of Earth's cosmic existence & might be one of the reasons for how life became situated.

So, why doesn't the Bible mention it during creation? Or even later, when it shows up?

Genesis chap 1 verse 16 “God made two great lights—the greater light too govern the day and the lesser light to govern the day”
 
So, basically, a person who believes in religion is not productive, doesn't spend time on building or rebuilding etc? They don't do things to benefit society or themselves? That good brother is the whole dynamic of this contention. Point is, a LOT of generalizations, with no factual evidence or support, is placed in the context of trying to discredit something just because a persons views don't agree with someone elses.

For every 'Christian' organization where the leader is about self promotion and personal wealth, there are 10 who are about community service, investing in local rebuilding and growth, etc. To over simplify the ENTIRE population of the religious belief system based on a few outlier instances shows more of a lack of credibility in the accuser than the person involved.

Its like saying, every black person is a criminally motivated gang banger, or drug dealer, etc. because a few segments of the black community are portrayed that way, when in fact there are numerous doctors, lawyers, etc from the black community who are productive members of society...

TO generalize everyone in the way a lot of you do here.... nevermind. As you said Good Brother, its your opinion and you are definitely entitled to it, Real Rap! :cheers:

Big up king. No i wouldnt call it generalization, I am just looking at the world infront of me. My neighborhood has six churchs on one block. six. There is ZERO investing in rebuilding. Nothing. Not even a dollar. Unless you mean fresh coat of paint on the church. Some of the pastors have the cadi and jewelry, some dont. Around the corner are two "Mega" churches. packed like stadiums. There is not a single investment in rebuilding at all. And i know this aint just Miami. That money should be pooled in actual investment groups...not in giving it to a dream. This is where religion cripples us. We give away a portion of our financial wealth for hope. Maybe you feel me or maybe you live in a different reality where you see a food drive every week or a church construction project somewhere. but much respect as always
 
Big up king. No i wouldnt call it generalization, I am just looking at the world infront of me. My neighborhood has six churchs on one block. six. There is ZERO investing in rebuilding. Nothing. Not even a dollar. Unless you mean fresh coat of paint on the church. Some of the pastors have the cadi and jewelry, some dont. Around the corner are two "Mega" churches. packed like stadiums. There is not a single investment in rebuilding at all. And i know this aint just Miami. That money should be pooled in actual investment groups...not in giving it to a dream. This is where religion cripples us. We give away a portion of our financial wealth for hope. Maybe you feel me or maybe you live in a different reality where you see a food drive every week or a church construction project somewhere. but much respect as always

Many churches help members with bills, clothes. Several run pantries and have community and outreach services. Prison outreach. Etc. I haven't participated in corporate worship in a while, I rarely attend church, but several are doing good things for the community. Several also participated in Moral Monday's to fight back against voter suppression and other political agendas that harm poor folks and PoC. There are some churches that might be trash, but there is going to be a percentage of every endeavor that has con men. Just look at the republican party. They are hiding behind church and religion to get a pass on passing legislation that harms the people they are supposed to be in power to help.
 
I'm curious.
Why is it that with virtually every scientific breakthrough, discovery or philosophical observation, some folks take it as PROOF PROSITIVE there is no God...? :confused:

It is the first cause argument which only leads to more questions. It is evidently circular because the next question is who created god?
Secondly, if there is a god that humans believe in then there should be observable phenomena, but there isn't.
So, our best options are to try to offer the best explanation based on our current knowledge and expand our definitions based on increased knowledge. The truth is that we may never have an answer but that is fine. Making up an answer because we don't know is limiting especially historically. People thought many things about the world and there conceptions of a god that are no longer seen as valid today.
 
It is the first cause argument which only leads to more questions. It is evidently circular because the next question is who created god?
Secondly, if there is a god that humans believe in then there should be observable phenomena, but there isn't.
So, our best options are to try to offer the best explanation based on our current knowledge and expand our definitions based on increased knowledge. The truth is that we may never have an answer but that is fine. Making up an answer because we don't know is limiting especially historically. People thought many things about the world and there conceptions of a god that are no longer seen as valid today.

An interesting observation.
Thank you for sharing your (obviously well thought out) beliefs with me... :D
 
Because I don't subscribe to bullshit ass christianity I'm an atheist who believes in evolution??Nigga are you fucking retarded?

Yes OK ape man. You believe in descending from apes so does the white racist they too believe that about. Kill yourself.


Who said we are the only intelligent species in the universe?

And evolution doesn’t say we are descended from Apes. It says we share a common ancestor.

https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution Primates are apes.

My point is, the Earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the Sun. But there was no sun. So nothing to revolve around and no reason to rotate. Why would an omnipotent being that had just created the entire Universe incluidng all of the other stars and galaxies, make a planet in a place where ther was no star, then make a random light then four days later make the sun. Then threw in a moon for kicks. Or, do you believe God created the Earth first,just sitting alone in the darkness then created the entire rest of the universe later?

So you discredit the Big Bang for “ignoring a lot of things” but you believe that?

Look, if you want to believe then just go forth and believe. But don’t try to rationalize that belief because it is completely irrational.

The Big Bang does not add up mathematically nor does it pass the common sense test. A big ball of nothing from nothing exploded and caused a random creation that somehow resulted in the earth. By math matter and antimatter would have obliterated everything at that moment.. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/2...ed-equal-amounts-of-matter-and-antimatter.htm

Talk about the rationalization of the irrational. Every argument you mak against God is the same one against evolution and the Big Bang.
 
Yes OK ape man. You believe in descending from apes so does the white racist they too believe that about. Kill yourself.




https://www.britannica.com/science/human-evolution Primates are apes.



The Big Bang does not add up mathematically nor does it pass the common sense test. A big ball of nothing from nothing exploded and caused a random creation that somehow resulted in the earth. By math matter and antimatter would have obliterated everything at that moment.. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/2...ed-equal-amounts-of-matter-and-antimatter.htm

Talk about the rationalization of the irrational. Every argument you mak against God is the same one against evolution and the Big Bang.

So many things to correct.

You didn't even read the link you posted. Very first paragraph:

Human evolution, the process by which human beings developed on Earth from now-extinct primates. Viewed zoologically, we humans are Homo sapiens, a culture-bearing, upright-walking species that lives on the ground and very likely first evolved in Africa about 315,000 years ago. We are now the only living members of what many zoologists refer to as the human tribe, Hominini, but there is abundant fossil evidence to indicate that we were preceded for millions of years by other hominins, such as Australopithecus, and that our species also lived for a time contemporaneously with at least one other member of our genus, Homo neanderthalensis(the Neanderthals). In addition, we and our predecessors have always shared the Earth with other apelike primates, from the modern-day gorilla to the long-extinct Dryopithecus.

Apes are primates not the other way around. Apes are a type of primate. Just as red is a kind of color. Your statement is the same as saying colors are reds.

A big ball of nothing from nothing exploded

The size of the initial singularity was smaller than an atom. It also contained all of the matter and energy in the universe. So it wasn't a big ball of nothing.

Also, concerning your matter-antimatter problem...

https://home.cern/topics/antimatter/matter-antimatter-asymmetry-problem

Nevertheless, a tiny portion of matter – about one particle per billion – managed to survive. This is what we see today. In the past few decades, particle-physics experiments have shown that the laws of nature do not apply equally to matter and antimatter. Physicists are keen to discover the reasons why. Researchers have observed spontaneous transformations between particles and their antiparticles, occurring millions of times per second before they decay.

What that means is that scientists have observed particles switching between being matter and antimatter millions of times a second. So we know these particles are fluid. We just don't know why yet.

You really should study these things more before showing your ignorance by claiming to know anything about them.
 
So many things to correct.

You didn't even read the link you posted. Very first paragraph:



Apes are primates not the other way around. Apes are a type of primate. Just as red is a kind of color. Your statement is the same as saying colors are reds.



The size of the initial singularity was smaller than an atom. It also contained all of the matter and energy in the universe. So it wasn't a big ball of nothing.

Also, concerning your matter-antimatter problem...

https://home.cern/topics/antimatter/matter-antimatter-asymmetry-problem



What that means is that scientists have observed particles switching between being matter and antimatter millions of times a second. So we know these particles are fluid. We just don't know why yet.

You really should study these things more before showing your ignorance by claiming to know anything about them.

Again just read everything you just posted one more time. Apes are a type of primate? Collard greens are a type of vegetable but still a vegetable. I did not descend from primates, period.

The universe came from something as tiny as an atom? Yet even a black hole can’t contain all of its matter. Let me guess the earth is flat also? You sound as stupid as they do. It’s amazing what the white man has you believing.

We have scientist observing what? Making excuses for theories with huge holes in them.

So here are the facts, you have no facts. You have not studied but a fraction of what you speak of. You are a sheep who believes what you have been told by a bunch of people that make money off of simply selling shit they can’t prove. Yet you down religion which also requires the same act of faith. Then again maybe you are not an atheist, you just worship a different kind of religion.

Anyway getting back to your science. What in science would have allowed us to evolve this way but stop the evolution of every other mammal to an intelligent state? Don’t give me some dumb theory about animals only evolved to what was needed to survive. Because it does not pass the test of why we needed to. Yet science has done nothing to discount religion, even coming to the point of proving biblical stories.

So unless you got something better than atom dots and primates, don’t bother to reply. It’s better to be silent with the ignorance you have already shown.
 
It is the first cause argument which only leads to more questions. It is evidently circular because the next question is who created god?
Secondly, if there is a god that humans believe in then there should be observable phenomena, but there isn't.
So, our best options are to try to offer the best explanation based on our current knowledge and expand our definitions based on increased knowledge. The truth is that we may never have an answer but that is fine. Making up an answer because we don't know is limiting especially historically. People thought many things about the world and there conceptions of a god that are no longer seen as valid today.

The world is the observable phenomena. Just like it is for science. Science started out with the world as the center of the universe. You are correct in your assessment, but as with science and with religion we are all still learning and observing. We are finding original translations that take apart statements of bibles that were translated for selfish means. Even science has crossed into religion to prove how the sea was partied and that there was a great flood. The Bible from its opening has stated that we would eventually attain all knowledge. What science can’t disprove is the existence of a higher power. Religion has never discounted science nor tried to.
 
Again just read everything you just posted one more time. Apes are a type of primate? Collard greens are a type of vegetable but still a vegetable. I did not descend from primates, period.

The universe came from something as tiny as an atom? Yet even a black hole can’t contain all of its matter. Let me guess the earth is flat also? You sound as stupid as they do. It’s amazing what the white man has you believing.

We have scientist observing what? Making excuses for theories with huge holes in them.

So here are the facts, you have no facts. You have not studied but a fraction of what you speak of. You are a sheep who believes what you have been told by a bunch of people that make money off of simply selling shit they can’t prove. Yet you down religion which also requires the same act of faith. Then again maybe you are not an atheist, you just worship a different kind of religion.

Anyway getting back to your science. What in science would have allowed us to evolve this way but stop the evolution of every other mammal to an intelligent state? Don’t give me some dumb theory about animals only evolved to what was needed to survive. Because it does not pass the test of why we needed to. Yet science has done nothing to discount religion, even coming to the point of proving biblical stories.

So unless you got something better than atom dots and primates, don’t bother to reply. It’s better to be silent with the ignorance you have already shown.

Collard greens are a type of vegetable, but are all vegetables collard greens?

Apes are a type of primate, but not all primates are Apes.

Not only did you descend from primates, but you are a primate.

You talk about what the white man has me believing yet you believe a bible written by white men. Have you read the actual scrolls and texts in Israel? Or are you basing all of the worship and belief off of what some white men told you the Bible says? Please answer that question.

And it's so ironic that you would say "You are a sheep who believes what you have been told by a bunch of people that make money off of simply selling shit they can’t prove." If that isn't what religion is, I don't what is.

See here's the thing. You say things aren't proven. Well, Einstein's theory of relativity predicted black holes. The thought of a black hole seemed so crazy, he actually started fiddling with his numbers. But the science was proven.

His theory also predicted that time would move slower for you the faster you travel. Proven once again.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/einsteins-time-dilation-prediction-verified/

He also predicted gravitational lensing.

https://oneminuteastronomer.com/9237/gravitational-lens/

He predicted gravitational waves.

http://mashable.com/2017/10/16/gravitational-waves-albert-einstein-neutron-stars/#3XPjFhBMBqqr

Now, tell me how those pigeons made it from Antartica to the middle East please.
 
The world is the observable phenomena. Just like it is for science. Science started out with the world as the center of the universe. You are correct in your assessment, but as with science and with religion we are all still learning and observing. We are finding original translations that take apart statements of bibles that were translated for selfish means. Even science has crossed into religion to prove how the sea was partied and that there was a great flood. The Bible from its opening has stated that we would eventually attain all knowledge. What science can’t disprove is the existence of a higher power. Religion has never discounted science nor tried to.

No actual science has proven a great flood. Just stop. And religion has often discounted science.

Galileo was imprisoned by the church for teaching that the Earth revolved around the sun. Other men were burned at the stake for it.
 
No actual science has proven a great flood. Just stop. And religion has often discounted science.

Galileo was imprisoned by the church for teaching that the Earth revolved around the sun. Other men were burned at the stake for it.

Wrong actual scientist proved it back in the 70’s probably before you was born.

So science says there was a void of nothing and a dot of matter and Bang the universe was born. Yet the Bible said that.

So science says we evolved from a single cell organism into humans somehow ruling the earth yet they have found no links to say were they primates evolved from. Hmmm. We are the only animals evolved to continuously get smatter more destructive and more intelligent while every other species has been dormant. Hmmm. I recall that from the Bible also.

All science is a blind faith just like religion, one for which our race has suffered dearly. The Tuskegee experiment, the bell curve, autism due to mmr vaccines affecting only black males. So you keep letting science rule your life.

Where science has failed to help us out ie hiv. Faith has carried us forward. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela.

Plus if you are going to put your faith in science you should a fairly large number of scientist believe in a higher power.

http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/

The one that calls people a fool for following religion or the one who’s believing in the fool who is religious.
 
Big up king. No i wouldnt call it generalization, I am just looking at the world infront of me. My neighborhood has six churchs on one block. six. There is ZERO investing in rebuilding. Nothing. Not even a dollar. Unless you mean fresh coat of paint on the church. Some of the pastors have the cadi and jewelry, some dont. Around the corner are two "Mega" churches. packed like stadiums. There is not a single investment in rebuilding at all. And i know this aint just Miami. That money should be pooled in actual investment groups...not in giving it to a dream. This is where religion cripples us. We give away a portion of our financial wealth for hope. Maybe you feel me or maybe you live in a different reality where you see a food drive every week or a church construction project somewhere. but much respect as always

Your block doesn't constitute the entire damn world. I give to churches black and white why cause I know they give out food 365 and on week days they help the homeless wash clothes and give access to warm showers, free hair cuts and i have a homie whose a dentist he gives free cleanings and free check ups.
 
Your block doesn't constitute the entire damn world. I give to churches black and white why cause I know they give out food 365 and on week days they help the homeless wash clothes and give access to warm showers, free hair cuts and i have a homie whose a dentist he gives free cleanings and free check ups.


And thats great. Round of applause for you. Do you agree that we have enough churches in this world that if they did the right thing we would have solved world hunger by now? Solved clothing the whole world? The churches in my section of Miami cant even solve there internal stealing and love affairs. There humans bruh, just like you and me. So when you give to them dont use words like "I know they" cuz you dont know shit about what they do with your money once they have it.
 
Wrong actual scientist proved it back in the 70’s probably before you was born.

So science says there was a void of nothing and a dot of matter and Bang the universe was born. Yet the Bible said that.

So science says we evolved from a single cell organism into humans somehow ruling the earth yet they have found no links to say were they primates evolved from. Hmmm. We are the only animals evolved to continuously get smatter more destructive and more intelligent while every other species has been dormant. Hmmm. I recall that from the Bible also.

All science is a blind faith just like religion, one for which our race has suffered dearly. The Tuskegee experiment, the bell curve, autism due to mmr vaccines affecting only black males. So you keep letting science rule your life.

Where science has failed to help us out ie hiv. Faith has carried us forward. MLK, Gandhi, Mandela.

Plus if you are going to put your faith in science you should a fairly large number of scientist believe in a higher power.

http://www.pewforum.org/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/

The one that calls people a fool for following religion or the one who’s believing in the fool who is religious.

Post the scientific proof of the flood (you done fucked up now)

I had typed a bunch of other stuff in the post, but you are quite comfortable in your ignorance. It obviously comforts you. And if being ignorant makes you happy, then go be happy.

The rest of us have work to do to make this a better world and advance society. You just continue to sit on a board that breaks almost every rule of the religion you claim to believe in and talk about what a true believer you are. That’s not hypocritical at all.
 
So the op calls people retarded for believing in religion because he JUST now learned there’s a galaxy out there?

I’m convinced that the government is putting shit in the water to dumb niggas down.
 
Post the scientific proof of the flood (you done fucked up now)

I had typed a bunch of other stuff in the post, but you are quite comfortable in your ignorance. It obviously comforts you. And if being ignorant makes you happy, then go be happy.

The rest of us have work to do to make this a better world and advance society. You just continue to sit on a board that breaks almost every rule of the religion you claim to believe in and talk about what a true believer you are. That’s not hypocritical at all.

What rule of religion are you talking about. Oh ya science really making stuff great for blacks. Why do black Americans have disease that are not common in Africans. The Tuskegee experiments. The autism experiments. AIDS. Really. What I view on this board is of my concern not yours but nothing I do is hypocritical to my religion, maybe from your limited scientific view. I was going to type a big break down on all of your bullshit scientific views but I think I will let a guy I don’t always agree with close for me.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/12/m...ired-for-being-ultra-right-wing-conservative/
 
What rule of religion are you talking about. Oh ya science really making stuff great for blacks. Why do black Americans have disease that are not common in Africans. The Tuskegee experiments. The autism experiments. AIDS. Really. What I view on this board is of my concern not yours but nothing I do is hypocritical to my religion, maybe from your limited scientific view. I was going to type a big break down on all of your bullshit scientific views but I think I will let a guy I don’t always agree with close for me.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/12/m...ired-for-being-ultra-right-wing-conservative/

Religion has been used to do more harm to black people from slavery down than anything else. And where that scientific proof of the flood at?
 
I’ve always thought souls just travel from spot to spot

I have dreams where I feel I know the people in them but I know I never met them

What if some of these dreams are the fragmented memories of lives lived?

Those dreams could be your other existences..

Your life in other dimensions.

I think are past lives are erased from our

Memories ...

But we have been here many times before...

They crazy shit is


we are our antcestors
 
Religion is a belief that can’t be proven. You either believe in it or you don’t. It’s that simple.

I agree.

It's the dudes in this thread that insist that religion makes as much if not more logical sense than science that are ridiculous.

If religion made logical sense, you wouldn't have to believe or have faith. You don't have to have faith that 2 + 2 will equal 4.

The whole point of religion is to believe in something that makes no rational sense.
 
Religion has been used to do more harm to black people from slavery down than anything else. And where that scientific proof of the flood at?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ev...t-flood-noahs-time-happened/story?id=17884533 http://www.1260-1290-days-bible-prophecy.org/day-year-principle.html religion is not opposed to science. Plenty of scientist believe in God.

People have done more to harm black people. Religion is what helped end slavery. Economics and science started slavery. The science that the black man while being dumb was more fit for manual labor than the white man. See you want to use science for every thing but then you want to get emotional when it comes to religion. We’re is the scientific proof that religion has did more to the black man then science? We’re is the science that proves religion is false? The absence of proof is not proof.

Yet every scientific means for the creation of the universe follows the path of religion and science throws the same thing back. Before the Big Bang there was nothing. Sounds like genesis. The universe was created over time. 2 peter 3:8.

Science is all theory even proof of the flood is not really proof it’s one of many theory’s. In science you use theory, in religion you use faith.

Theory has done nothing to help the black man except use him as a proving ground. However faith has uplifted us to heights never seen by science. If slavery and the civil rights movement had depended on science my friend you would still be a slave. Last I checked MLK was not a scientist. Last I checked no scientist are around defending voting rights but the damn sure working overtime gerrymanding districts and helping republicans win voter suppression.
 
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ev...t-flood-noahs-time-happened/story?id=17884533 http://www.1260-1290-days-bible-prophecy.org/day-year-principle.html religion is not opposed to science. Plenty of scientist believe in God.

People have done more to harm black people. Religion is what helped end slavery. Economics and science started slavery. The science that the black man while being dumb was more fit for manual labor than the white man. See you want to use science for every thing but then you want to get emotional when it comes to religion. We’re is the scientific proof that religion has did more to the black man then science? We’re is the science that proves religion is false? The absence of proof is not proof.

Yet every scientific means for the creation of the universe follows the path of religion and science throws the same thing back. Before the Big Bang there was nothing. Sounds like genesis. The universe was created over time. 2 peter 3:8.

Science is all theory even proof of the flood is not really proof it’s one of many theory’s. In science you use theory, in religion you use faith.

Theory has done nothing to help the black man except use him as a proving ground. However faith has uplifted us to heights never seen by science. If slavery and the civil rights movement had depended on science my friend you would still be a slave. Last I checked MLK was not a scientist. Last I checked no scientist are around defending voting rights but the damn sure working overtime gerrymanding districts and helping republicans win voter suppression.


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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-giberson-phd/the-biblical-roots-of-racism_b_7649390.html

The tragic shooting in South Carolina offers another painful reminder of American Christianity’s troubled relationship with race and segregation. While it is true that most of the great abolitionists were inspired by their Christian faith, it is also true that their opponents were inspired by their Christian faith. As a result, much contemporary racism is rooted in Christianity.

Unfortunately, the Bible is not very helpful when it comes to race issues. Many have found within its pages justifications for slavery, abuse of African-Americans and segregation. Unfortunately, the divisions between the races are exacerbated, not diminished, by Christianity.

Martin Luther King Jr. famously said in 1963, “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” Fifty years later, this remains true, as America’s churches lag behind its schools, businesses, military and almost every other institution in escaping old taboos about mixing the races. Compare the diversity in the pages of Christianity Today to that of Sports Illustrated or Rolling Stone.

The single greatest humiliation of American Christianity is its long endorsement of slavery and even longer endorsement of racism — a dark cloud still clearly visible at eleven o’clock on Sunday mornings — a cloud that mocks the vision of Martin Luther King and the leaders of the civil rights movement.

The fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina proudly flew the racist torch as long as possible until it was forced by the IRS to integrate in 1971 or risk losing its tax exemption. It complied by admitting only married blacks to discourage racial mixing. It was not until 2000 that the University, in the midst of a great uproar, reversed its policy on interracial dating. Bob Jones Sr., the university’s founding president, had famously said, “White folks and colored folks, you listen to me. You cannot run over God’s plan and God’s established order without having trouble. God never meant to have one race. It was not His purpose at all. God has a purpose for each race.”

Jones’ warning shaped the university at an official level until recently and continues to shape it informally. The University has, however, officially rejected it racist heritage, and is struggling to free itself from its own bondage to a terrible ideology.

Bob Jones University is just one example of how American Christians have used the Bible to promote racism. When the Northern and Southern Baptists split in 1845 over the issue of slavery, Southern Baptists were using an obscure reference in Genesis to justify owning slaves — the so-called “Mark of Cain.” In Genesis 4, we read of God placing a visible “mark” of some sort on Cain for murdering his brother and lying about it when God asked what had happened. As early as the fifth century, Cain’s curse was interpreted as black skin, and millions of Christians have used it to justify slavery.

A bit later in Genesis, we read of Noah cursing his son Ham, declaring that his offspring would henceforth serve those of his brothers. The “Curse of Ham” was another Biblical justification for slavery. One particularly disturbing appeal to the Bible argued that Noah and his family on the ark were all white, so any blacks on the ark must have been among the animals.

Christian slave owners in the United States operated within a tradition that provided biblical justification for owning slaves in the same way that one owned horses. The arguments were varied: The Ten Commandments instruct us not to “covet our neighbor’s manservant (= slave),” but make no comment about our neighbor owning a slave in the first place. We are also told not to covet his donkey. The great patriarch Abraham — Kierkegaard’s “Knight of Faith” — owned slaves. The apostle Paul returned a runaway slave to his master. Jesus did not condemn the widespread slavery in the Roman world. If slavery was wrong, why does the Bible not condemn it?

The prevailing view was, unfortunately, quite logical, or at least Biblical. If God created the races in their present forms, as most evangelical Christians believe and which must be true if the earth is just a few thousand years old, why did He create separate races? Assuming the separate races are a part of God’s plan, should we not join Bob Jones Sr., in his warning that we must maintain God’s divinely ordained races by preventing interracial marriage?

Biblically-based assaults on blacks have waned over the years, thankfully, but never fully disappeared. In a highly significant and symbolic move, the Southern Baptists did apologize in 1995 for their endorsement of slavery, segregation and white supremacism. And in 2012, the sixteen-million-member body elected its first African-American president to preside over an encouragingly diverse community. So there is hope.

But as long as a literally interpreted Bible remains the authority for millions of Christians, we will be struggling with its mixed messages about the meaning of the races.
 
Those dreams could be your other existences..

Your life in other dimensions.

I think are past lives are erased from our

Memories ...

But we have been here many times before...

They crazy shit is


we are our antcestors


You still stoopid. Im shocked the cacs haven't called those to lock u up in the psych ward within ya west village spot
 
@dlow is explaining to us how the slave master's religion being forced on our ancestors was for our own good.
 
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