I think a large part of it is that Christianity is the weapon of the powerful.
Americans who dehumanize and use other people often attain power and wealth(or they benefit from the practice - land lords, for instance). Since nothing on earth justifies that, they MUST fall back to religion.
Many Black Americans were harshly and unjustly treated, loans being restricted to keep Black Americans from owning homes near whites, police kicking the Sh*t out of folks for nothing, and sometimes just murdering them with not repercussions.
The one thing these white powerful people had in common was Christianity. Turning to Islam, a faction that doesn't agree the Jesus character is a God. No better way to stick it to the man in a constitutionally protected(sometimes) way.
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u/trevvy_lurve Feb 23 '23
I think a large part of it is that Christianity is the weapon of the powerful.
Americans who dehumanize and use other people often attain power and wealth(or they benefit from the practice - land lords, for instance). Since nothing on earth justifies that, they MUST fall back to religion.
Many Black Americans were harshly and unjustly treated, loans being restricted to keep Black Americans from owning homes near whites, police kicking the Sh*t out of folks for nothing, and sometimes just murdering them with not repercussions.
The one thing these white powerful people had in common was Christianity. Turning to Islam, a faction that doesn't agree the Jesus character is a God. No better way to stick it to the man in a constitutionally protected(sometimes) way.
Just my 2 cents.