am i justified in believing that God was unfair to the blackman?
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Yes, in some ways God has let down a lot of different races and cultures over the centuries. Your people are just the modern example of how gods will sacrifice some cultures for another in the goal of meeting god’s will.  Races like yours fall in the category of pawns in the big game of life.\n\nPeople claim that you blacks are in your situation because you don’t work hard enough, or you don’t act in a particular way, or because you are not like us with our values. Many people honestly believe this because it justifies their genocidal pasts and actions in their involvement with other races.  Think about it. Your races development was impacted by the white man in a very big way and I don’t even have to go into the slavery issue; this is a given. For centuries your people and Africa’s resources have been fought over by the Europeans and other cultures. You race was always caught in the middle and ended up suffering for it.  Most races on the entire planet view Africans as savages even to this day your people are viewed as aliens on this planet. \n\nAfrica and its resources were fought over time and time again to the point where it had a profound effect on the many cultures in Africa. Cultures in that country, if given time to develop would have come together after the usual wars that cultures have with each other, which would have accelerated technological growth would have in time brought all of Africa together under one primary flag, and with the countries wealth and natural resources, would have made it a force to be reckoned with about time the Europeans and other races showed up.\n\nBut this never happened because your race and your races resources were attacked and your people were divided, which explains a great deal about the condition of Africa today.  All the war, hunger, and strife that’s going on in Africa today in this modern day is a direct result of Europe and other large nations interferences in the natural development of Africa and its people.  They are still after the resources in Africa and the best way to get them is to keep the country destabilized. Divide and Conquer, so your people in Africa are killing each other, having clan wars, fighting warlords, and whole regions have starving people. There are cities and universities, but the whites and the Asians want to put a stop to that. \n\nThen there are the African descended people who ended up in other countries as a result of slavery or in more modern times they immigrated to the larger nations: Europe, Canada, and the United States, or if they’re insane, New Zealand or Australia in search of a better life then they could find at home.  These poor souls (yourself included) are right in the middle of the lions den. I’m sure not a day passes that you are not put down, or reminded of your blackness and that it is somehow wrong. Not a day goes by when you don’t experience something negative regarding your race.  Each European or Asian nation on Earth that has a minority population of Black people mistreats them in some way. It’s sort of like how Africa and its people are treated by the Europeans; it just happens here on a smaller scale but it is the same pattern. For your people, it's a large, agreed upon, unspoken, character assassination.  You are kept divided. You are made to feel ashamed. You are told constantly that you aren’t good enough, and eventually, as you get older you start to believe it, and if you have children, as they start to grow up and they see that you are believing it and it makes them angry so a good portion of them take their frustrations out on the surrounding society and become menaces to society.\n\nYou find that the darker the skin is the more you are told that your are ugly, unattractive, and, the blacker you are the more fear follows you. Everyone not Black projects their fears into you.  At some point you stop trying and White and Asian society says “see, we told you they were lazy.”  You and your peo
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I am one of those antagonizers and I am doing it not to persecute you but to get you to realize what you have chosen by stating that you are a particular type of believer whatever it may be.  You are defining yourself-unwittingly-as someone who is prejudice-you are representing yourself as someone who is above someone else (or will be they day you go to heaven and I go to hell) because you have received this thing you call GOD.  It is this thing that you call God that people have used to persecute one another throughout the history of mankind and then called themselves saved which is their own way of forgiving themselves for the autrocities they have committed.
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I doubted mine, and I came up with my own answer. I don't get angry at anyone who disagrees with me because that is their right. \n\nWhat I never agreed with was that Deity, by whatever name, would have revealed him or herself only to a small group of people on this vast planet, damning all those who hadn't heard or accepted him or her to eternal punishment.\n\nI believe that Deity is revealed to all. I believe that there isn't one recipe to some "salvation", and that we all come around more than once. \n\nWhatever we believe, I don't think that anyone has the right to belittle others for their beliefs. Disagreement is fine; harrassing and demonizing isn't.
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I don't believe in the Christian and Jewish God,but sometimes I hate the idea of him.He is very evil and unfair.How could a loving God punish humankind for the wrongdoings of two people?How could an all-knowing God not know that eve would eat the apple?How could God send people to hell for not believing something that has no proof whatsoever?I don't really like this perception of God.
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yes God exists for me... in times of need i asked Him lots of favors and He grants it... sometimes He doesn't because it was my fault as well i acknowledge... try... when you are in need pray and just wait for it to be answered... you cand ask him to talk to him directly....
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Must you be judgmental.  You as a black person should know that is not fair to accuse all the black people that way, and instead of converting the Churches into colleges, why not build both, churches and colleges.  Or, is it that they should have one or the other but not both!  \n\nHow sad, just take them back to the cotton fields why don't you!? what an awful thought. (sarcastic)\n\nYou want to be an atheist, stop preaching to them, and let them be.  Live and Let live.\n\n---\nwhat is wrong with that is your idea is taking something away from them, and if they want a church, that they should have, and they also should have colleges as well.  Money!  in the end, no matter how much a college will cost to build, it will cost a lot less than having people in despair, unable to take care of themselves.  Feed the soul and spirit in the church, and feed the brain in the schools.  You need not to believe in what they believe, but if that what makes them feel good about themselves, then that what they should have.\n\nwhat good being an atheist is going to do for them! not much I believe, not much.\nLive and Let Live. for you the one who doesn't believe in God, and to all those who do believe.  That sir, is the only fair things to do.\nThanks.
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If you are a weak individual, then yes.  It gives you some purpose in your otherwise droll life.  If you are capable of logic and reason, there is no need for an excuse such as god.
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I don't think it is justified. We cannot play God and that is precisely what we are doing. Think of the trickle down effect killing somebody has one society.\n\nNothing good comes from it.
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Well. I think your right. god would not do what you described.\nGod, can do many things tho'.\n\nBe sure which god, God you have these feelings from.\n\n.
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Dont compare God to the foolishness of man. Sometimes you can find God in the most unlikely of places, and sometime those that say they are Godly men are the farthest from God of all men. This isnt Gods fault. Dont blame him for the way mankind may behave. :)
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First - your assumption that life is unfair is not correct.  Our lives are exactly what we make them to be.  We are given choices and if we choose a path that makes it more difficult than we'd like, that is a result of our choice, not some ethereal "unfairness."  \n\nBill Gates has millions of dollars.  I don't.  Is that unfair?   No, he made his choices, I made mine.  I have a life that is worth 100x100 times more than all the money he has because God blesses my life.  I have the most precious things I could have, God as my light, my husband as my life partner and four children who challenge me to be a better mom every day.  Who could ask for more?    \n\nEternity in heaven will be beyond anything our finite minds can imagine.  If you think it is unfair here, then you have to have faith and know that you know that you know it will NOT be unfair in Heaven.  Why?  Because God promises that it won't be.  He wants each of His children to be prosperous and content in ALL things.  My finite mind can only imagine what those ALL things are in Heaven.  Frankly, I can hardly wait.  But God has more work for me to do here, so let's get to it . . . . .
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I totally disagree with what you are saying you cannot have rationality and equality without faith and hope. That is one of the wills of our Lord God. I also don't believe in the theory of montheism promotes superiority, Man has done that on his own not a religion man!\n\nMan creates his own worse demons and he is the one who creates confusion and along with Satan at his side he promotes it to the point that he will try to convert as many as he can.\n\nDon't believe in your own hype because it isn't true and you know it!
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Reminds me of that bit in Catch 22.\n\nAnyway, I don't believe in a God of History; one whose supposed exploits are charted in writings from the past. There is no way I can face a divinity who sits from the distant yesterday and claims that enough has been done, or who has dangled false hopes over our future. Life is not that simple. The God that I would believe in would exist in the here and now, and would be defined through such an existence rather than through the broken remains of our ancestors.
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There is and are no "best" responses. When we stand before God in judgement...maybe you can ask HIM ...yourself. Please invite me to witness that moment....
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If marrying outside your race was wrong, then Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, Esther, Samson to name the majors would all be found guilty. God so loved the "world" that He gave His only Son. It didn't say God so loved the whites only, the chinese only, or what have you. God created blacks and other nationalities in His image and likeness and God said it was good. It's not the color of your skin you should be concerned with, it's the contents and issues in your heart coming out of your mouth. So we might as well get over any inner racist feelings that are rooted down in there because you will have a big problem in God's kingdom where there are multicultures and mixed babies and people all in Christ, made in His image.
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You are really a glutton for punishment, aren't you?  It was people like you, ignoramous, that beat Him to a pulp and crucified Him.\n\nIt was because of the sins of mankind, and our self-destructive ways, that caused Jesus to be crucified, don't you even try to "blame God" for that one, you will surely rot in hell.
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This all total crap. Overcome your conditioning and recognise that you have been brainwashed.\n\nDon't you think that if there was a God then after 2000 years and more we'd have just a bit of evidence? By evidence I mean something objectively measurable - not the mumbo-jumbo circumstantial stuff spouted by the Bible-bashers.\n\nWake up and get a life.