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In reply to the discussion: Why are so many black Americans Christians? [View all]underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Because there are NO white people in the Bible. It represents the stories of brown and black people in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
In Revelations, Jesus was described as having hair like wool and feet the color of bronze. In the Bible, he is referred to as the son of God. In Gen 1:26 God said Genesis 1:26 (KJV) Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. In other words, at the time, God made man and filled it with other living things, people were black and brown in the image of God (which he called "us."
Around the time the Romans took over Christendom in old Europe, (Roman Catholicism) They developed ways to monetize and weaponize religion to control, manipulate, and terrorize the white masses.
My husband and I do a daily Bible study BUT we're NOT Christians.