How can progressives help steer African Americans away from religion?

[moriah]

147. So, one step about "being better" might not be the automatic assumption that faith is always bad.

As I said in another post, the Constitution gives me the right to dance under the full moonlight if I will it, and gives you the right to think I'm a kook and not be forced to participate.

But atheists often fall victim to the same arrogance that people who think their faith is the One True Way have, and it's easier to justify intellectual arrogance than it is to see that the human psyche has had faith, religion, myth, spirituality, and other "superstitious nonsense" for its entirety of existence as sentient beings, if archaeology is any clue. Jungian archetypes may indicate less a "collective unconscious" if that sounds too mystical for you, but perhaps are indicators of humanity's brain wiring, yet their near universality is undeniable.

If you don't need to believe there's some greater reason than you understand for things that are shitty or express gratitude when things that could have been shittier are less shitty, that's fine for you. But... shit happens.

And you haven't experienced my shit, and perhaps not seen potential shit averted and thought things that may be wishful thinking but are harmless (if any Witch could influence matters from beyond the grave to save her only grandchild, it was the deceased Witch whose grandson is only alive now because her daughter-in-law was scheduled for an ultrasound because they mistakenly thought they saw two possible Downs markers on a prior one -- she hadn't known she was in premature labor or starting to experience a likely placental abrupture, just thought he was kicking hard).

But don't judge my way to deal with the craziness of this world -- to believe there must be a reason. If you had walked in my moccasins, you might have developed a similar unproven and impossible to prove view that keeps you here, going, and somewhat sane, too.