Adopting Middle Eastern Faiths as the end all to be all

[Epic Beard Man]

I agree. The abrahamic faiths doesn't really mesh with out present day culture, but I guess the reason why people still choose them is because of out innate desire to find meaning in life when there is none.

I agree but I also think that is the problem. People are of religious faith based on cultural traditions as well.

 

[sayak83]

When I posted about Christianity forced upon Africans I was saying that in conjunction to my opinions regarding the Abrahamic faiths and my relationship with them. But I only briefly mentioned the history of the early Africans to the Americas but I didn't want that to overwhelm the entire discussion. You have to understand that the African Diaspora is a very complex one. African-Americans are so torn away from their primordial faiths that the only religion of the Abrahamic traditions we are familiar with is Islam (thus is why the Nation of Islam became so popular among the African-Americans during the time of Malcolm) and some animist, a very few primordial African faiths. But the point is due to the system of slavery and the destruction of my ancestral culture, I do not have a relationship with any faith I can trace my ancestral tradition back to thus I am a stranger. But the discussion of slavery, and Arab influence takes away from the spirit of my point.

There is Ethiopian Christianity as well. That is quite old and traditional.

 

[TheBannerofHomuraAkemi]

I agree but I also think that is the problem. People are of religious faith based on cultural traditions as well.

True, their are a lot people who go to churches today just because its a family tradition and not of any real faith they have.