Admin webmdave 0 Posted October 15, 2020 Admin Report Share Posted October 15, 2020 LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Black nonbelievers have for years been working to redefine what it means to be atheist, a word too often linked to white spaces mostly concerned with creationism and the separation of church and state. The post Black skeptics find meaning in uplifting their community through social justice appeared first on Religion News Service. View the full article Quote Link to post Share on other sites
◊ Lerk ◊ 458 Posted October 15, 2020 Report Share Posted October 15, 2020 Good article. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moderator LogicalFallacy 4,040 Posted October 18, 2020 Moderator Report Share Posted October 18, 2020 Interesting to note the percentages of white vs black who identify as atheist. I believe a similar trend is found here in NZ where the native Maori and the Pacific Island peoples are very religious, and also tend to be more conservative than their white religious brethren. I'm not sure why this is. Are some cultures just inherently more religious than others? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Orbit 817 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 4 hours ago, LogicalFallacy said: Interesting to note the percentages of white vs black who identify as atheist. I believe a similar trend is found here in NZ where the native Maori and the Pacific Island peoples are very religious, and also tend to be more conservative than their white religious brethren. I'm not sure why this is. Are some cultures just inherently more religious than others? It's often not that they are more inherently religious, it's that religion has been used to resist oppression historically, and churches are organizations through which that happens, like in the American civil rights movement. That makes it more culturally relevant. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moderator LogicalFallacy 4,040 Posted October 19, 2020 Moderator Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 54 minutes ago, Orbit said: It's often not that they are more inherently religious, it's that religion has been used to resist oppression historically, and churches are organizations through which that happens, like in the American civil rights movement. That makes it more culturally relevant. The irony is that religion has also been the cause of oppressions in the first place. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
★ Weezer ★ 1,086 Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 16 minutes ago, LogicalFallacy said: The irony is that religion has also been the cause of oppressions in the first place. And I remember people justifying slavery because the bible condoned it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Myrkhoos 300 Posted October 21, 2020 Report Share Posted October 21, 2020 Time and tine again I am amazed at the white-black classification in the US. A very interesting cultural phenomenon. In my country gypsies were also kind of slaves - I say kind of because Idk the whole history but they were bought and sold. Also they have darker skin colour and are renowned for criminal activities and backwardness. So kind of the black ppl from the states. However , romanians being a distinct ethnic group and gypsies also, skin colour was never really important, it is/was just an ethnic marker, like dress or language. I have never really considered myself "white". However I was raised to be deeple aware of my ethnicity and sub ethnicity. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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