Kallib Winters Thor is the one true god... You worship a different invisible man than I do. And from that simple exchange centuries of violence ensued.
Most black americans aren't atheist because of they were CONDITIONED to praise a white God....this isn't debatable. Being bound to a false god is exactly why we have a hard time progressing beyond the leash of our oppressors.
Darwin thought black people where less evolved than white people so who cares secular or religious either way doesn't look good for black people racism is based on colour and race not religion. Atheism has its own form of indoctrination the constant insults and intellectual bullying is also a form of brain washing and just because you don't believe doesn't mean you are free freedom is a state of mind people think differently, it is just different world views. As for a white Jesus nonsense he is from the middle east he is most likely brown As for black folk not moving forward there's more to that than a white Jesus I'm sure that's just a another lame Atheistic excuse the 20th century is riddled with blood shed the worst in the entirety of human history and that's without religious wars based mostly on secularism. Oppression happens when intolerant dogmatic people are able to mislead majorities doesn't matter secular or religious we have seen this from both sides. On a different note we are free to think and examine for ourselves learn to respect the next person regardless of their belief or lack of and I'm sure we can all get along
@@jas_wyn my guy. I'm sure there are atheists that bully and act superior. But you'll find those ppl everywhere (no matter what they believe) Just cause Darwin believed something stupid and false. Doesn't mean his scientific work are invalid
I stopped being a Christian because of racism and misogyny. As a race of people who are survivors of the worst racism ever inflicted upon people all we can do is pray. WTF! I was told to be grateful for being able to attend a good school because we didn't get the same opportunity. Attending integrated schools as a black person changed my world view on life. I am more pro black now than ever before. This just means that I don't have the need to want to be white. Why should I stay with a religious affiliation that believes black make good slaves and is anti - woman.
@@rickzepeda4403 it's harder to be an atheist in the Bahamas is way harder over 95 percent of people are christians. Every one in my school my family everywhere so c'mon
@@hiddengem4293 Atheism is just the lack of belief in gods it says nothing about your political views so please stop spreading misinformation. A lot of ignorant people do everything in their power to "other" people who don't think like they do.
I'm 12 years old and white, and I live in an area that has a lot of black people, and all of the kids in the area that I know are atheist. These days, most kids stop believing in god(s)/higher powers (including myself) because kids feel that a religious figure has done nothing for them.
yung Eugene Krabs As wise thinkers, most if not all atheists would go along with Carl Sagan who popularised the idea that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” It’s hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some abstract hidden intelligence created a universe of more than two trillion galaxies, with more stars than grains of sand on earth, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a tiny single (one in Septillion) blue planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy (one in two Trillion) evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of backward violent desert tribal (one in thousands) groups before disappearing again to his home above the clouds.
I am black and a proud atheist and my non-belief in religion has nothing to do with slavery or apartheid of that black people have suffered - my atheism in firmly rooted in the fact that religion (Judaism, Christianity or Islam) makes absolutely no sense to me. I read the bible and I found it wanting and in my opinion god was and is childish, disorganized, vindictive and is not forward thinking - (as is evident in Genesis). In a way I can see how it is possible to be narrow minded in thinking when one becomes religious - it requires that you suspend all logical thinking.
Hispanics are very religious yet I find myself at peace with my atheism. I don't feel it takes away from traditions or my culture I still participate in religious events, of course for different motives. I enjoy spending time with my family and they are religious, I don't feel that my atheism takes away anything away in terms of my experience during any religious ceremony. I'm simply there to be with my family. Perhaps it is because of my supportive parents that I haven't felt excluded. I like what one man said, "I'm culturally catholic."
It's good that religion is on the decline all over the world. The more "intelligent" you are, the less likely you are to be religious: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence Societies that are religious and societies that are secular have the exact same number of "social ills" - in other words, religion does not make you a better person, and secularism does not make you an evil person. lambdadelta.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/religiosity-appears-to-correlate-negatively-with-social-health/ Let me restate: being religious doesn't make you a better person.
Vince Meadows "when societies are organized via there religion " China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan.... all atheistic majority countries. If you hold up Korea and say "ah HA! atheism makes for stupid and conflict!" You IGNORE Japan and China and Mongolia. WHen's the last time you heard about social unrest in Mongolia?
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Proud black atheist. Proud black humanist. If you are a black atheist, don't let religious people force you into a hole where you hide your beliefs. Be just as proud of your atheism as they are of their gods
Black, atheist (from a family with missionaries and clergy on both sides), extremely proud. Tired of the trope that to be black means you have to be religious. Tired of the idea that I'm not part of the community or touch with my blackness if I'm not in church rolling in the spirit. I am a black woman and proud of that fact, but a religion that was forced upon my people by white missionaries and colonizers does not speak to me anymore and it never will again. Maybe in the past black people were reticent to speak on their atheism, but I don't know if such is the case anymore.
Black and atheist. It wasn't difficult for me, because it was a progression. I was raised in the church, but began to question very early. By age 10, I knew I couldn't believe what I was being taught. By 12, I "officially" left the church. But I still VERY much believed in a god. And I set out to find it. It would take another 20 years of study and practicing various belief systems before I accepted my atheism. But that's another story.
I honestly think that when *All* religion is destroyed, racism won't have a leg to stand on. Maybe one day we will all be the same color. The color of logic and reason. Stand up my Atheist brothers and sisters and unite. There's a time to speak and the time is now!
Black atheist here! I look at religion as a moral guideline NOT as historal fact. Even as a guideline I used that loosly, it wasnt that long ago in history that it was mainstream to used the christian bible as a reason to why black slaves were not only ok but what god wanted. Black mormons make me giggle the most, look up in the mormon religion where blacks come from....
These people in this video have been brainwashed since birth just like their ancestors. Saying that someone is going to hell because they don’t believe in your god is ridiculous. If someone is born into another religion they are going to have as strong a faith in their god as anyone else so are they damned to HELL because of where they were born. The big picture here is if our ancestors were never taken as slaves then most of us would be going to hell because we weren’t taught Christianity by slave owners.
Never met a black atheist? I am one! I have met quite a few others who I didn't know are atheists. We don't proselytize as many religious people are taught to do. I never thought it was a big issue since my family contains many free, intelligent thinkers. Regardless of someone's belief or lack of, I always focus on a person's character and integrity. I sure can't say that about everyone and will avoid the topic with many of my black people. Once they hear I am not a believer, their tone becomes negative as if they are talking to the a demon. Lol.
As wise thinkers, most if not all atheists would go along with Carl Sagan who popularised the idea that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” It’s hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some abstract hidden intelligence created a universe of more than two trillion galaxies, with more stars than grains of sand on earth, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a tiny single (one in Septillion) blue planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy (one in two Trillion) evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of backward violent desert tribal (one in thousands) groups before disappearing again to his home above the clouds.
Atheism... Religion... Who gives a rat's ass about personal relationships. Why is hoarding of billions of dollars by black churches being ignored? Literally every issue in that Community is made better with all that cash. Money changes everything... Including the lives of suffering People. Poverty and homelessness are non-existent when some folks do what They don't ordinarily do.
I am not religious at all call it what you want. If there is such a thing why is this world such a mess. Black People where taught to be closed minded it’s called control. I refuse control so you can keep it .
I view religions as essentially failed sciences. Religion was simply the discourse humans used when all causes in the universe were opaque. We very naturally as a cognitive and behavioral imperative formed descriptions of the world. We tell ourselves stories about our origins and about where we are going. Those stories, given our pervasive ignorance and our disposition to see agency in the world, entail being in relation to imaginary friends and enemies. We have this parent figure in the sky that watches over us and going to take care of us and demonic presences that we should really be worried about. As we achieved rationality and dozens of specific sciences were birthed, we see religion loosing on every aspect. On the front of human health and disease, science is winning the argument. With religion we used to get a diagnoses of demonic possession. Now we have the science of neurology and we know about epilepsy. It's loosing the argument ethically, and it will loose the argument spiritually. As science progresses it will just make a mockery of our past discourse about Jesus, Buddha, Mohamed and the supernatural. Its a process that we have to be intellectually honest about and give time to unfold. Galileo said it best "the Bible tells you how to go to heaven, and science tells you how the heavens go." He drew a line in the sand which separated spiritual belief and science. This is why our government is established in a secular way. So we can believe what we want and have that right. Our constitution protects this, and mentions nothing about God. So when Christians say "America is a Christian nation." I see hypocrisy and dishonesty. Religions all around the world constitute what we call "belief systems." We have the freedom to believe whatever we want and is a profound right in a free society. It is unstable to build a government on a belief system, due to how many religions there are. What you want is objectively verifiable truth and information around to which we all can agree. Once you have that then go to your church and practice whatever religious tradition your heart desires. But know the difference like Galileo did between how to go to heaven and how the heavens go.
I'm a 'white' atheist, and the best thing anyone can do is come out and say it. People will give you the look, they'll ask you questions, some might even want to argue/debate you... give it to them! If you think its easier or harder because of color, you're wrong. Its hard for everyone. But if you want to be true to yourself, if you value anything, have respect for anything, you don't hide. non est deus
Black athiest here and I'm never going back to book of myths and fairytales. My people are only Christians today because our ancestors were forced to accept that religion. It's deep rooted now into their DNA and they're not going to give it up. They claim to hate everything about slavery accept for the belief system that was forced on them.
In response to the Frederik Douglas thing and the closeted homosexuality thing - I don’t buy that most people become atheist because of trauma. I think we become atheist because it makes the most sense given the evidence.
I could listen to as far as the woman claimed religion (named, christianity) helped them through slavery. She either didn't pay attention in school, or I paid too close attention, for me to laugh out loud at that one.
+Christopher Schneider She is right, you're just white and don't understand. They did rely on religion or some type of Christian belief in order to make their situation better. That's why it's hard for African Americans to become atheist as it was a big part in us becoming non segregated in America.
To be fair in history the American blacks who believe in god, were pretty much forced to worship jesus way back then they were brought over from Africa and the Carribbeans due to their gods and belief's viewed as heracy, same when missionaries went over to to said places and used their words and ways to convert them over, thus over time the faith just became part of their way, its the same when the spanish conquistadors came over to south america and north America they converted or force converted the insidious tribes to their catholism thus why the latin community is mostly Catholic, if you wanna be an atheist be an atheist if you wanna believe in a god or god's go for it but they're people of faith and people of secular and we all dont have to follow the same thing, lets mot hate or debate eachother about it just choose what we choose withkut condemning someone for their choice.
Black African Atheist. I'm still in the closet cos I can live without people thinking I'm demon-possessed or in a satanic cult. I haven't personally met another though
not a white blonde jesus saved us during slavery, it was your African and hue colored ancestors in the spirit worlds. most religions are the same rituals and aspects of ancient African spiritualism via Ra, Aset, Set, Oshun, Ogun etc. the list goes on and on as well as dealing with nature and the seasons star systems. learn your true spiritualism and magic. peace
I find the argument in itself absurd. Who am I to say "God" exist or doesn't exist? Then assert my interpretation of that existence or lack there of onto other people. My personal theory.
Yeah, people tend to leave agnostics out of the "debate". I think agnostics are the only sensible ones because there is no way you could possibly know for sure what did or did not create the universe...
I don't get that ether, they should be atheists, Luke 12:47 , jesus okays beating slaves. Slavery was justified in the south by references in the bible of jesus and god. "slaves be obedient to your earthly masters, with fear in trembling, with singleness of heart, as to Christ"
I'm a black atheist just in the closet. My friends know that I am but my family don't. I think these people in the video don't know what they are talking about.
People always ask, why do you care as an atheist, about what others believe? Because, i tell them as an athiest, we are not going door to door and telling people how should they think; eat, love, and learn about my life. Athiest are not asking for my money on television, and then, telling me I will go to hell if I don't believe in atheism. There is no conundrum, there is only the truth. The truth is there is no credible, empirical and testable truth to the existence of your magical sky daddy in the clouds. Your faith is the worst trait a thinking human being can have. It requires no evidence, just followers and sheeps who have been indoctrinated by their parents and other sheeps to believe in anything and everything without proof. After that brainwashing is done, they are susceptible to any lies and false propaganda. How many believe in ghost, demons, witches and humans with telekinesis? How many believe in Humans with psychic powers that can talk to the dead and read your future? Magical beings like Satan and demons, we create in our minds to torture our human counterparts. All of these con artists religious leaders like the Pope, priest and reverends making a profit on the gullibility of humans, who don't want evidence for their outrageous beliefs. You should thank the Atheist, the skeptics, the person who ask questions and buck the system of brainwashing. The leading scientist of the world are athiest.
the Black community is surprisingly closed-minded about a number of critical issues affecting our people.
Truth
THERE IS WAY MORE OF US BLACK ATHIEST THAN THIS GUY THINKS
Black atheist here. Can confirm we exist.
Another black atheist here, of the West Indian variety. We do indeed exist.
Kallib Winters Thor is the one true god... You worship a different invisible man than I do.
And from that simple exchange centuries of violence ensued.
Black British of West Indian descent. Atheist. Not superstitious on any level. Pretty vocal about it. Existing.
Another Black Atheist here, we're with you man.
Another one here.
Black atheist reporting in. I'm closeted though because I don't want to deal with my family about it. Indoctrination is serious business.
Is that you Jamie?
DLaughingman from experience, they find out..
Asake MUA yeah they do, but its still hard to be open with it
Alade Ogun so true, my mom forced communion on me like a month ago...cant believe she thought that would convert me
im closeted too, most of my family is a jehovah's witnesses
THIS black guy does atheism.
DITTO
Most black americans aren't atheist because of they were CONDITIONED to praise a white God....this isn't debatable. Being bound to a false god is exactly why we have a hard time progressing beyond the leash of our oppressors.
Darwin thought black people where less evolved than white people so who cares secular or religious either way doesn't look good for black people racism is based on colour and race not religion.
Atheism has its own form of indoctrination the constant insults and intellectual bullying is also a form of brain washing and just because you don't believe doesn't mean you are free freedom is a state of mind people think differently, it is just different world views. As for a white Jesus nonsense he is from the middle east he is most likely brown
As for black folk not moving forward there's more to that than a white Jesus I'm sure that's just a another lame Atheistic excuse the 20th century is riddled with blood shed the worst in the entirety of human history and that's without religious wars based mostly on secularism. Oppression happens when intolerant dogmatic people are able to mislead majorities doesn't matter secular or religious we have seen this from both sides.
On a different note we are free to think and examine for ourselves learn to respect the next person regardless of their belief or lack of and I'm sure we can all get along
+Jas Wyn Darwin thought black people where less evolved than white people >> prove it
@c1981 Completely a valid question to ask. It’s imperative that you back up your claims, bud.
@@jas_wyn atheism doesn't mean u believe in Darwin it means u lack the belief in Gods
@@jas_wyn my guy. I'm sure there are atheists that bully and act superior. But you'll find those ppl everywhere (no matter what they believe)
Just cause Darwin believed something stupid and false. Doesn't mean his scientific work are invalid
Black atheist right here as well and we are on a slow rise to logic, reason and critical thinking.
I stopped being a Christian because of racism and misogyny. As a race of people who are survivors of the worst racism ever inflicted upon people all we can do is pray. WTF! I was told to be grateful for being able to attend a good school because we didn't get the same opportunity. Attending integrated schools as a black person changed my world view on life. I am more pro black now than ever before. This just means that I don't have the need to want to be white. Why should I stay with a religious affiliation that believes black make good slaves and is anti - woman.
You don't know anything about The history of slavery if you think that you are the victims of the worst slavery ever 😂
@timothyacowin9761 Get a life. You don't know anything at all about anything. I said this six years ago.
@@timothyacowin9761
You’re wrong!
Say it LOUD, I'm Black and a PROUD ATHEIST!
Black Caribbean and atheist 👋🏽
does not count just americans
Black American and atheist. .
@@rickzepeda4403 it's harder to be an atheist in the Bahamas is way harder over 95 percent of people are christians. Every one in my school my family everywhere so c'mon
Atheism supports racism.
@@hiddengem4293 Atheism is just the lack of belief in gods it says nothing about your political views so please stop spreading misinformation. A lot of ignorant people do everything in their power to "other" people who don't think like they do.
Im a black atheist and my family does not approve so I keep it on the low.
But my friends know and embrace me.
You shouldn't have to keep it on the low, your family don't keep their beLIEfs on the low. 😡
I'm 12 years old and white, and I live in an area that has a lot of black people, and all of the kids in the area that I know are atheist. These days, most kids stop believing in god(s)/higher powers (including myself) because kids feel that a religious figure has done nothing for them.
yung Eugene Krabs As wise thinkers, most if not all atheists would go along with Carl Sagan who popularised the idea that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” It’s hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some abstract hidden intelligence created a universe of more than two trillion galaxies, with more stars than grains of sand on earth, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a tiny single (one in Septillion) blue planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy (one in two Trillion) evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of backward violent desert tribal (one in thousands) groups before disappearing again to his home above the clouds.
@@yvesmartin4788 YES
Bro has a White Supremacist pfp now 🤣🤦♂️
Proud black atheist right here
Black man, graphic/web designer and Athiest
black atheist here
I am a black atheist. Full stop.
ME ttoo
I am black and a proud atheist and my non-belief in religion has nothing to do with slavery or apartheid of that black people have suffered - my atheism in firmly rooted in the fact that religion (Judaism, Christianity or Islam) makes absolutely no sense to me. I read the bible and I found it wanting and in my opinion god was and is childish, disorganized, vindictive and is not forward thinking - (as is evident in Genesis). In a way I can see how it is possible to be narrow minded in thinking when one becomes religious - it requires that you suspend all logical thinking.
+Sofia X lol true
@javon johnson Exactly.
Hispanics are very religious yet I find myself at peace with my atheism. I don't feel it takes away from traditions or my culture I still participate in religious events, of course for different motives. I enjoy spending time with my family and they are religious, I don't feel that my atheism takes away anything away in terms of my experience during any religious ceremony. I'm simply there to be with my family. Perhaps it is because of my supportive parents that I haven't felt excluded. I like what one man said, "I'm culturally catholic."
I feel you.
It's good that religion is on the decline all over the world.
The more "intelligent" you are, the less likely you are to be religious:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity_and_intelligence
Societies that are religious and societies that are secular have the exact same number of "social ills" - in other words, religion does not make you a better person, and secularism does not make you an evil person.
lambdadelta.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/religiosity-appears-to-correlate-negatively-with-social-health/
Let me restate: being religious doesn't make you a better person.
Vince Meadows
"when societies are organized via there religion "
China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan.... all atheistic majority countries.
If you hold up Korea and say "ah HA! atheism makes for stupid and conflict!" You IGNORE Japan and China and Mongolia.
WHen's the last time you heard about social unrest in Mongolia?
You're right. I just googled that up from the wiki. Believe what you want.
I'm sick of arguing.
And I just got a notification of some sort of update, but I see nothing new.
Google is FUCKED UP
Vince Meadows James Bond
HOLY SHIT GOOGLE CHANGED ITS POLICY! :D
I can approve ALL your comments marked as "spam" by the BROKEN AND STUPID GOOGLE SPAM FILTER!!!
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arthurjeremypearson Don't forget The Scandinavian region.
Proud black atheist. Proud black humanist. If you are a black atheist, don't let religious people force you into a hole where you hide your beliefs. Be just as proud of your atheism as they are of their gods
Lol I'm black and atheist
meezyyyy
Me too
Too much effort to be a atheist?! You have to do nothing. Just reject one thought. Easy.
Black, atheist (from a family with missionaries and clergy on both sides), extremely proud. Tired of the trope that to be black means you have to be religious. Tired of the idea that I'm not part of the community or touch with my blackness if I'm not in church rolling in the spirit. I am a black woman and proud of that fact, but a religion that was forced upon my people by white missionaries and colonizers does not speak to me anymore and it never will again. Maybe in the past black people were reticent to speak on their atheism, but I don't know if such is the case anymore.
Black and atheist. It wasn't difficult for me, because it was a progression. I was raised in the church, but began to question very early. By age 10, I knew I couldn't believe what I was being taught. By 12, I "officially" left the church. But I still VERY much believed in a god. And I set out to find it. It would take another 20 years of study and practicing various belief systems before I accepted my atheism. But that's another story.
I'm fucked, the dating pool is so small.. a minority in a minority.
I feel your pain all, my ex and current girlfriend are religious
SHEEP. Those who believe are still slaves, no matter your ethnicity or culture. Just replacing a human master for an invisible one.
I know several thousand in just one Facebook group.
artsHscience meeee✋🏾
I have to join
I'm a black atheist and we do exist.
Same
I honestly think that when *All* religion is destroyed, racism won't have a leg to stand on. Maybe one day we will all be the same color. The color of logic and reason. Stand up my Atheist brothers and sisters and unite. There's a time to speak and the time is now!
Black atheist here! I look at religion as a moral guideline NOT as historal fact. Even as a guideline I used that loosly, it wasnt that long ago in history that it was mainstream to used the christian bible as a reason to why black slaves were not only ok but what god wanted. Black mormons make me giggle the most, look up in the mormon religion where blacks come from....
I'm black and atheist. 🙋🏾♂️
I'm black and Satanist.
Ummm.. slavery was justified cuz of the bible.
Just saying.
These people in this video have been brainwashed since birth just like their ancestors. Saying that someone is going to hell because they don’t believe in your god is ridiculous. If someone is born into another religion they are going to have as strong a faith in their god as anyone else so are they damned to HELL because of where they were born.
The big picture here is if our ancestors were never taken as slaves then most of us would be going to hell because we weren’t taught Christianity by slave owners.
Never met a black atheist? I am one! I have met quite a few others who I didn't know are atheists. We don't proselytize as many religious people are taught to do. I never thought it was a big issue since my family contains many free, intelligent thinkers. Regardless of someone's belief or lack of, I always focus on a person's character and integrity. I sure can't say that about everyone and will avoid the topic with many of my black people. Once they hear I am not a believer, their tone becomes negative as if they are talking to the a demon. Lol.
As wise thinkers, most if not all atheists would go along with Carl Sagan who popularised the idea that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” It’s hard to imagine a more extraordinary claim than that some abstract hidden intelligence created a universe of more than two trillion galaxies, with more stars than grains of sand on earth, and then waited more than 13.7 billion years until a tiny single (one in Septillion) blue planet in a remote corner of a single galaxy (one in two Trillion) evolved an atmosphere sufficiently oxygenated to support life, only to then reveal his existence to an assortment of backward violent desert tribal (one in thousands) groups before disappearing again to his home above the clouds.
There is no spiritual being that helped us through slavery. That makes no sense whatsoever.
Atheism... Religion... Who gives a rat's ass about personal relationships.
Why is hoarding of billions of dollars by black churches being ignored?
Literally every issue in that Community is made better with all that cash.
Money changes everything... Including the lives of suffering People.
Poverty and homelessness are non-existent when some folks do what They don't ordinarily do.
I am not religious at all call it what you want. If there is such a thing why is this world such a mess. Black People where taught to be closed minded it’s called control. I refuse control so you can keep it .
2:36 It's like the female version of Paul Mooney.
I like this topic.
Here is a fact, the first ever official "RUclips atheist" video was made by a black man.
Latino atheist right here papi !
Found this very enlightening. Thanks for posting.
I view religions as essentially failed sciences. Religion was simply the discourse humans used when all causes in the universe were opaque. We very naturally as a cognitive and behavioral imperative formed descriptions of the world. We tell ourselves stories about our origins and about where we are going. Those stories, given our pervasive ignorance and our disposition to see agency in the world, entail being in relation to imaginary friends and enemies.
We have this parent figure in the sky that watches over us and going to take care of us and demonic presences that we should really be worried about. As we achieved rationality and dozens of specific sciences were birthed, we see religion loosing on every aspect. On the front of human health and disease, science is winning the argument. With religion we used to get a diagnoses of demonic possession. Now we have the science of neurology and we know about epilepsy. It's loosing the argument ethically, and it will loose the argument spiritually.
As science progresses it will just make a mockery of our past discourse about Jesus, Buddha, Mohamed and the supernatural. Its a process that we have to be intellectually honest about and give time to unfold. Galileo said it best "the Bible tells you how to go to heaven, and science tells you how the heavens go."
He drew a line in the sand which separated spiritual belief and science. This is why our government is established in a secular way. So we can believe what we want and have that right. Our constitution protects this, and mentions nothing about God. So when Christians say "America is a Christian nation." I see hypocrisy and dishonesty.
Religions all around the world constitute what we call "belief systems." We have the freedom to believe whatever we want and is a profound right in a free society. It is unstable to build a government on a belief system, due to how many religions there are. What you want is objectively verifiable truth and information around to which we all can agree. Once you have that then go to your church and practice whatever religious tradition your heart desires. But know the difference like Galileo did between how to go to heaven and how the heavens go.
disagree , it is successful for people in power , denied by intelligent people and beloved by most people
I'm a 'white' atheist, and the best thing anyone can do is come out and say it. People will give you the look, they'll ask you questions, some might even want to argue/debate you... give it to them! If you think its easier or harder because of color, you're wrong. Its hard for everyone. But if you want to be true to yourself, if you value anything, have respect for anything, you don't hide.
non est deus
Say it loud, I'm a black atheist and I'm proud.
I'm a black atheist
Black atheist and proud.
I'm a "Black Folk" and I DO Atheism
Black athiest here and I'm never going back to book of myths and fairytales. My people are only Christians today because our ancestors were forced to accept that religion. It's deep rooted now into their DNA and they're not going to give it up. They claim to hate everything about slavery accept for the belief system that was forced on them.
Another black Atheist here!
In response to the Frederik Douglas thing and the closeted homosexuality thing - I don’t buy that most people become atheist because of trauma. I think we become atheist because it makes the most sense given the evidence.
I could listen to as far as the woman claimed religion (named, christianity) helped them through slavery. She either didn't pay attention in school, or I paid too close attention, for me to laugh out loud at that one.
+Christopher Schneider She is right, you're just white and don't understand. They did rely on religion or some type of Christian belief in order to make their situation better. That's why it's hard for African Americans to become atheist as it was a big part in us becoming non segregated in America.
+Charlie Chang She is right about what?
Christopher Schneider African Americans turn to religion and christianity, as opposed to whites who use therapy and politics.
+Charlie Chang ah, got it.
Christopher Schneider Likewise.
Proud of being a black atheist
Black atheists here as well.
"Someone will beat it out of you"
Are you afraid of a god or afraid of punishment for not pretending to believe from earthly Tyrants?
Black atheist here...
Black people need to believe in something. They're very spiritual. That doesn't mean that a "spirit" exist though.
We need to believe in things that can be proven, like science.
Glad it has been scientifically proven...
4:44 - Awesome. That is what I am talking about.
To be fair in history the American blacks who believe in god, were pretty much forced to worship jesus way back then they were brought over from Africa and the Carribbeans due to their gods and belief's viewed as heracy, same when missionaries went over to to said places and used their words and ways to convert them over, thus over time the faith just became part of their way, its the same when the spanish conquistadors came over to south america and north America they converted or force converted the insidious tribes to their catholism thus why the latin community is mostly Catholic, if you wanna be an atheist be an atheist if you wanna believe in a god or god's go for it but they're people of faith and people of secular and we all dont have to follow the same thing, lets mot hate or debate eachother about it just choose what we choose withkut condemning someone for their choice.
Black atheist here.
Christianity has wrecked havoc on the black community in multiple ways.
Black atheist RIGHT HERE
Yes we do.
Yup. let's all go praise a God that has no actual evidence behind it.
Black atheist here 😼
I'm black I don't believe in god
African
As black as black can get and I'm an atheist
Black African Atheist. I'm still in the closet cos I can live without people thinking I'm demon-possessed or in a satanic cult. I haven't personally met another though
Damn y'all are So far behind and superstitious you us to shame. HAIL Satan 🤘😈
Don't believe in a sky daddy, no way. Atheist here.
I have seen a lot more black people are coming out as atheists more often.
Satanists too Hail Satan 🤘😈
Love the guy at 04:41 😂
Non spiritual Black atheist in the Dallas area. 🖐
You didnt survive slavery and hardship because of religion, you where kept in it due to religion!
No, religion or not, Slavery has existed for a long, long time. Religion merely provided an excuse to make it look less bad.
not a white blonde jesus saved us during slavery, it was your African and hue colored ancestors in the spirit worlds. most religions are the same rituals and aspects of ancient African spiritualism via Ra, Aset, Set, Oshun, Ogun etc. the list goes on and on as well as dealing with nature and the seasons star systems. learn your true spiritualism and magic. peace
Black Atheist in the house!
I wish we could grow beyond associating belief in the Most High God with attending church on Sunday. One has nothing to do with the other.
No worries, my generation are mainly atheist. It’s the old generation that is overly religious.
What song is playing at the end? It's neato.
Black,white,religous, or athiest it shouldn't be a subject that requires raging war
What makes us a number and not human. We are human so we do EVERYTHING. Wish this was "Black people do..."!.
I find no reason to brag about it.
Michael Baisden.
James Baldwin.
Yosef Ben-Jochannan.
Jamila Bey.
Hannibal Buress.
I find the argument in itself absurd. Who am I to say "God" exist or doesn't exist? Then assert my interpretation of that existence or lack there of onto other people. My personal theory.
Yeah, people tend to leave agnostics out of the "debate". I think agnostics are the only sensible ones because there is no way you could possibly know for sure what did or did not create the universe...
Black atheist...and yes I'm pretty sure I exist... unlike these gods
Black atheist satanist here. Hail Satan 🤘😈
This is the saddest shit I’ve ever seen.
Who is this channel for?
The woman has the same mannerisms as paul mooney, and one of the guys looks exactly like andy samberg.
No.church was the only thing allowed to us, in terms of any type of education. There was a reason for that, and it wasn't for our benefit.
help us out of our hardship , didn't give us that suffering
I'm beginning to question things about religion...I would I'm a skeptic right now.
I don't get that ether, they should be atheists, Luke 12:47 , jesus okays beating slaves.
Slavery was justified in the south by references in the bible of jesus and god.
"slaves be obedient to your earthly masters, with fear in trembling, with singleness of heart, as to Christ"
Imagine devoting your life to the religion of your former slavers,
I'm a black atheist just in the closet. My friends know that I am but my family don't. I think these people in the video don't know what they are talking about.
People always ask, why do you care as an atheist, about what others believe? Because, i tell them as an athiest, we are not going door to door and telling people how should they think; eat, love, and learn about my life. Athiest are not asking for my money on television, and then, telling me I will go to hell if I don't believe in atheism. There is no conundrum, there is only the truth. The truth is there is no credible, empirical and testable truth to the existence of your magical sky daddy in the clouds. Your faith is the worst trait a thinking human being can have. It requires no evidence, just followers and sheeps who have been indoctrinated by their parents and other sheeps to believe in anything and everything without proof. After that brainwashing is done, they are susceptible to any lies and false propaganda. How many believe in ghost, demons, witches and humans with telekinesis? How many believe in Humans with psychic powers that can talk to the dead and read your future? Magical beings like Satan and demons, we create in our minds to torture our human counterparts. All of these con artists religious leaders like the Pope, priest and reverends making a profit on the gullibility of humans, who don't want evidence for their outrageous beliefs. You should thank the Atheist, the skeptics, the person who ask questions and buck the system of brainwashing. The leading scientist of the world are athiest.
"it takes too much effort to be an atheist" How is it too much effort to not believe in bullshit?
Atheist and loving it!
im spiritual, u atheists wouldn't know about that
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This is sad to listen to. They literally need to believe in god.
***** Good for you, I guess. How they "look" is neither here nor there.
Fuck off and mind you're own business. Your prejudice makes you just as bad as the racist KKK.
😂😂😂😂😂 Santa Clause for adults
I fell so bad for these people they were persecuted due to this religon and for some reason they belave it
black atheist from brazil
Hii
Everyone is an atheist in some way...we just take that extra step and not believe your god exists either🤷🏾♂️
Damn...It’s like 90% black atheists in the comments.