Why are most African Americans still Christian?

Question

Considering Christianity and the Bible have been responsible for their slavery and discrimination and even though nothing from the Bible is relevant to Africa outside the Northeast. Why worship a semitic deity (Yahweh) responsible for death, suffering and the degradation of your culture instead of something your ancestors believed into (the ancient African Gods)?

Answer 1

Because they know the truth.  Would you rather they died and go to h**l for rejecting our Lord?

Answer 2

Well Christianity changes people, for the better.

It takes the anger and hatred that people have for others and exchanges it and causes them to become forgiving and gracious toward those same people.

Christianity also teaches that God prepares a table for our enemies, we need no longer limit ourselves to justice here on earth.

It stands to reason that all this this would perplex someone who is not a Christian.

Answer 3

Are you aware that many Africans still living in many many places in Africa are Christian?  And in actuality the NE is Muslim.

Answer 4

I can't speak on behalf of African Americans, but it is very simplistic to blame Christianity for slavery and racial discrimination. It is true that many racists justified their support for slavery based on religious arguments, but many of them, sad to say, also justified it in the name of Darwin and racial biology. Does that mean that modern science and the theory of evolution are corrupt? Hardly.

If you study the abolition movement you will learn that Quakers and other Christians were very active in ending slavery in the U.S., precisely because they thought slavery was against the teachings of Jesus.

I am not saying that racism has not been a strong influence in the history of modern Christianity - but the relationship is much more complex than you are making it out to be.

Answer 5

It's not Christianity and the Bible, it's PEOPLE who are responsible for slavery and discrimination.  Slavery happened in all cultures and within most religions, not just to Africans. Jesus Christ died on the cross to save all, not just a few.  So why shouldn't African Americans, Africans or anyone else believe in the Gospel of Christ if they want to?