Whether you be latino, asian or black, or any other ethnic denomination that has a large Christian population, the weight of religious conviction has effected their lives to a degree that is alarming and in a way that is grotesque. All these cultures have at some point essentially been indoctrinated into the Judeo-Christian ideologies. The resurgence in religious piousness has definitely been reinvigorated since the 1970's, and it's gained it strength in evangelical forums and wriggled it's way into the core of our politics.
But we have to look at the details of indoctrination in our own country and those across the seas that have been the victims, of the Christian God. In South Korea and in the Philippines, you have devout Catholics and Christians who seem to have forgotten that the gift left on top of corpses of opposition was a blood-covered bible. In Latin America, the same process took part in burying the Aztec and Incan gods. Like Quetzacoatl and whichever other deities would make me choke on my tongue if I tried to pronounce their names correctly. Then you have perhaps one of the most recent and disgusting displays of indoctrination: Black-American-Christians.
They are particularly the group that has kissed the blade of white control the most fervently. All Fox News correspondents aside, Black Americans are so far removed from their historical roots that they have no god to reference aside from the one they've been acquainted with in the bible. Over 80% of Blacks are Christian, 10% of which do not identify with any religious group. In between are Jewish and Muslim Blacks.
To think that this religious idea found it's way into the minds of slaves, 10% of whom were Muslim, is pretty astounding. God had some real cutthroat salesmen out there.. literally. Because of course, if you were threatened with torture or more work you'd say you believe in God too. But it seems as if this idea has slipped the minds of the black community today. Yet this population is considerably devout, even though the idea was propagated by people who kept them bound and didn't consider them human. I think the concept of God should seem the most obscene to Black Americans. God didn't save the black forefathers. He never did anything to stop slavery of the past or in America. I guess Lincoln had to take it upon himself, God must've been having an especially long session on the heavenly throne after too much angel hair pasta.
I believe this is the perpetrator for the Proposition 8 vote ballots among Blacks as well. Only the ancient and often contradictory dogma of the bible could blind a victim to instill the same limitations and binds on another group of people. Blacks turned out to the voting booths in record numbers during the Obama election. And with their presence, they decided to refuse gays the right to marry. An idea that finds it's roots in maybe 2 passages of their expansive and often repetitious Christian doctrine.
I'm not going to go into what good and what bad the church has done over the millennia, but I will say that it's time for indoctrinated minorities to re-examine the faith that was forced down their throats, and sworn into their hearts in lieu of a blade if not accepted.
All I'm really asking minorities to do, is take a look at the big picture. Before the great white machine came to your country and brought it's American Coca-Cola, what were your people drinking? Why were they drinking it, and why did they change their choice of beverage? And if morality is your answer to any questioning of your faith, remember the actions and methods of the people who came to your ancestors nations with God on their tongues.
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