Religion is just another form of power and forced subservience, especially Christianity. I tried to give it the benefit of the doubt for many years, but ever since 9 I realized it was bull.
1. Read "Things Fall Apart", if you know how to analyze reading that has a point (meaning, no multiple ways of interpreting) you will understand the effect that religion can have. In the pre-European slave trade (because slavery did exist before then, within African tribes in case you didn't know), Europe began to force Africans into subservience under the cloak of religion. They used the fear of God as a weapon, in addition to the fact that many people fear what they do not understand. As the saying goes "They came to our land with bibles. When we looked up from praying, we had the bibles and they had the land."
2. Take a philosophy class or an African American history class, especially if you're African American (for the record, I am mixed, and my ethnicities have had no effect on my objective analysis of culture and religion), or black if you prefer the term. The reason I say this is because we as people have been subjugated and and brainwashed not only by certain aspects of society, but moreso by older people in our families and communities (those who are religious). Also, many people are afraid of (or bored with) history to learn of where they came from. Before you speak on what you know (or don't), take the time to figure out just where that knowledge came from. Just because you believe something strongly (or, in the case of christians, live your entire life based on) doesn't that it is right. Logic cannot be defeated by emotion, which is why people who make decisions based solely on emotion are largely less efficient than those who incorporate logic.
3. This is not an argument of "seeing is believing", as I have seen someone cede to arguing on the basis that we "will see." How many people have lived lives based on these ideas and died before you? If we die, will we see? If so, prove this while you are alive. If your idea of we "will see" is the idea of rapture, once again I say our ancestors have died and no rapture had come for them, so what proof did they have, if that would be it?
4. Christians are the most contradicting of all religious creatures (not all christians, but most). As someone stated, religion and such derivatives are creations of man, whom is imperfect. Imperfection cannot breed perfection, and perfection cannot breed imperfection, because that would imply a "lack" of something (the ability to create perfection). Also, I saw someone say that God allows this shitty world to exist to allow those living in sin to rot. A "just" God would not feasibly allow his devout followers to suffer and rot along with these beings. Also, if God understands all of these things, why would he allow these thoughts to taint our minds and give us the option of Hell? If we are supposed to live a certain way, why are there options? If we have our own truths as he allows us, why are some of us "wrong". If he is a perfect, and therefore balanced, God, he would never have an opinion on anything and be incapable of judgement (which, I might add, is a sin for Christians, the followers of God, to pass on others). Finally, who says God is right? God. That is an unsupported and senseless statement, yet that is what christianity is based on. And also, one of the major flaws with humans. "My beats are the best because I say so." Then it goes from that to,"My beats are the best I and millions of others say so." That does not equal truth, only a strongly supported opinion.
5. This is NOT an argument that God does not exist, but rather that the way christians portray God is inconsistent and, therefore, impossible. I believe that God exists, although I do not believe that we are Gods ourselves.
6. I find it hilarious how christians are one of the few religions who feel the need to bash ALL OTHER religions and schools of thought. That is disgusting, prideful, self-centered, and quite frankly very "un-christian-like." Those weak in faith like to hide from problems, whether that faith be in religion (blocking out other logical possibilities) or that faith lie within themselves (i.e. "I can't make money off of beats because everybody else is cheaper" or whatever excuse they make).
Blacks are far more religious than whites, according to national surveys (census, I believe), poverty within our races are the inverse, however. Also, have you ever been to church? They ask for offering and tithe and in turn sell us hope, that the ignorant people buy. Reminding me of another saying "When a man tells me he is religious, I check to see if I still have my wallet." Drug dealers sell scapegoat tickets, and preachers sell hopes and dreams. Who's worse, the one you know is ****ing up your life and doesn't care, or the one who says he is making your life better through an imperfect God and makes you think he cares? Many poor people go to church and give what they have for hope of a better secular or afterlife. It may sound personal, but if my mom is paying the church to help the poor, why the **** am I going home to an empty fridge, a rumbling stomach, a sister contemplating suicide, and a mom who is dying because she can't afford to go a doctor? That doesn't sound like a God who cares about his people to me.
Just my .02
Just my .02
