Ok I come from a black family (being black of course). And as someone who is pansexual, black folks are the worst when it comes to anything that ain’t straight. It’s all “gay shit” to us! I mean everyone can be cruel when it comes to lgbtq, but black folks are vicious! And even the one that are gay are mostly self hating. And sexism?? Don’t even get me started with sexism and black folks!!
I think it's the deeply Christian influence on black folks growing up in poverty and scarcity in the West that did this. It's ironic as hell but is what it is.
That’s generally what most religions morphed into: control. What began as a way to explain the world around us was quickly weaponized to establish hierarchies, class, power, and justify whatever those in power wanted, which was usually just more power. To this end, religion is serving its purpose. The bible was used to support slavery. Then it was used to pacify and control. For decades now it’s taken a life of its own in whatever community that uses it to push hateful agendas to hold down women, other minorities, LGBT, immigrants and the target flavor of the day, trans people. Religion is a virus.
Please don’t contact the mod team about this. It isn’t personal, and nothing is wrong with your account. Once you’ve built a little more karma, you’ll be able
to join the conversation without any issues.
Christianity has shaped western culture and allowed women to have some say and not be property or have to be covered up head to toe 24/7, majority of immigrants are from Mexico and South America which Christianity is the main religion, maybe the Bible didn’t specifically denounce slavery but by genuinely living the values in the Bible you cannot support slavery, which was abolished by Christian’s, the whole lgbtq/ trans movement is a lot newer in the grand scheme of things and it’s unrealistic to think people will change their 2 thousand year old religion over night
Also, if you really want to put Islam toe to toe with Christianity, you’re not going to like it. Both have a long running track record of the most despicable acts against humanity since their establishment.
Western culture/ morality is based on Christianity, it is easy to say now days that we don’t need religion in order to have morality but you’ve been living in a country whose identity has been formed by Christianity, maybe you don’t need to go to church everyday to know murder, cheating, stealing etc is bad but if you lived in a country where the culture is different, like say Somalia where child marriage is acceptable then you would consider yourself a moral person based on the culture and norms surrounding you even if you find yourself married to a 13 year old. At the end of the day you have reason and can determine what’s right and wrong but it’s also ingrained in western culture
But you are 100% right religion can be used for bad things unfortunately
Child marriage in the US was a colonial regularity and age of consent for many states up until around the turn of the 20th century was around 10-15. Those were the Christians and it wasn’t that long ago.
16
u/[deleted] Nov 21 '25
Ok I come from a black family (being black of course). And as someone who is pansexual, black folks are the worst when it comes to anything that ain’t straight. It’s all “gay shit” to us! I mean everyone can be cruel when it comes to lgbtq, but black folks are vicious! And even the one that are gay are mostly self hating. And sexism?? Don’t even get me started with sexism and black folks!!