God's Disregarded Children: Black People Should Not Be Christians

Black people should not be Christians.

 

Although I primarily want to make my argument for this position from the standpoint of the interest of American Blacks, I first need to qualify this statement. In no way do I think that anyone should not be allowed to be Christian, even black people. Nor do I think the status of being black means your are not a "real" Christian. I simply argue that it is both not in the best interest of an American black person to be Christian, nor do I think the dogmatic belief structure of Christianity is conducive to the possibility of a positive identity for a black person.

Let me explain my dogmatic position before my historical one; only because the historical one is funnier. Dogmatically, Christianity is completely okay with slavery—an institution somewhat unique to blacks and American Indians in this particular country. Additionally, this is not one of those obscure customs of the Old Testament that many "Christians" like to pretend don't exist. Christ himself supports a slavery system in multiple teachings. Surely an American black person would be okay with a history of something that Jesus himself condoned. However, you might not yet be convinced.

Secondarily, I wish to use a similar Christian, albeit mostly evangelical, position that acceptance of Christ into your life and being born-again is the ONLY possible path to salvation. Lets play out a quick scenario. What if the Negro slavery system never existed in North America. The vast majority of black blood lines now living in the USA would still be in Africa instead. The majority of black people now living in America would instead live in Africa and would not know Christianity, therefore foregoing the possibility of salvation. Christians define the eternal life in heaven much more important than the struggles of mortal life. Therefore, American blacks that are Christian would have to be thankful (yes, thankful) that they were enslaved so that they were given the ability to learn about Jesus.

 

Please do not think that this is my original opinion.  By no means am I the first person to come up with this justification for the enslavement of an entire culture of people based on their race.  The Pope himself wrote a letter to Columbus with the exact same theory. Except, he was asking that Columbus enslave as many Indians as possible so that they could be given the opportunity be saved.  According to the Pope at the time, it was better for the potential slave to live a live of involuntary servitude and receive the eternal benefits of Christian salvation than to just be left alone to live out their own culture and beleifs.

Is my position that black people should opt to not be Christian stupid, racist, mean, or even ignorant?  Not in the least. Religion is for some reason the only thing that seems eternally exempt from criticism and logical thinking. I have been called all of these things but will never consider that it is religion itself that guides these illogical, idiotic doctrines into the minds of its followers.  We cannot afford to be a society that believes these silly fairy tales anymore, it will destroy us. We have to be better than that.

Christianity: eternal suffering awaits those that dare to question God's unconditional love.

The Return of the Real Fox News

They came back; I was starting to think that they never would. Corruption, crime, and cronyism were so prevalent in the ranks of what was formerly the prevailing party to such an extent that I was sure I would never get my Fox News back. For those of you that know me as a progressive agnostic liberal, you might think that me wanting Fox News is an internal contradiction. Stay with me, you will be glad your Fox News came back as well.

Most of us are barely old enough to remember the real Fox News, if at all. The Fox News we know now is not at all like the real one. You see Fox News was originally meant to be the "blind hatred of Clinton" station. Its only purpose was to perpetuate a Klan level detest of Clinton; coincidentally ironic that he was our "first" black president.  Now that there is actually a black president, who is intelligent and progressive, and the most popular in history, look for the fireworks to come loaded with idiocy and hate-commenced code language.

During the last few Clinton years, Fox News was a snarling junk-yard dog whose only ambition was to rally Clinton haters in the type of way that a roaring economy, strong international peace, and record national unity inherent to Clinton's administration could not instill in those God-Guns-&-Gays Supernaturalists. We understood that they had a hard time. After all they did think that trickle-down economics would work. Who would have thought anything else than if we gave all the rich, greedy people all the money they would naturally want to give it back to the rest of us?  Why didn't that work?

All of this changed when the Supreme Court and Katherine Harris appointed George W. Bush to occupy commandeered federal land on Pennsylvania Ave. in a black neighborhood near Virginia. Fox News no longer was the snarling hate driven propaganda factory it was created for; overnight it became this disgusting lap-dog; licking Republicans' collective face and eroding journalism in a brand new way.

But with the return of the Democratic party to power, I finally get my Fox News back. Look at the lineup, this was not a channel that was meant to be kind or objective in the least. Sean Hannity is disgusting when he is nice, his calling in life is to spew pointless talking points and then then snoodily point his nose up to the sky and refuse to listen to reason for a second. What the quintessential little right-wing cheerleader he is. He was doubled only by Tony Snow. However Tony completely missed the changeover back to hateful, God Complex level information control when he left to work for the other Fox News (White House Press Office).

My personal favorite of course is Bill O'Reilly. This is the proof of the network's intentions. You don't hire a raving lunatic like Bill O'Reilly unless you are trying to rally political troops that need only rhetorical ravings from a 3 meter tall mendicant. However, the only thing that matters is that they came back.

 Don't spoil my Christmas; I'm just happy to have all my old friends back.  News is fun again.