# "Don't discuss why religion is bad or problems in black churches in a thread called 'black atheism'"

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**Post date:** [May 21, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-discuss-why-religion-is-bad-or-problems-in-black-churches-in-a-thread-called-black-atheism/622486/41 "2012-05-21T15:24:39Z")

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> [@tomndebb](#):
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> Go back and read the posts I moderated. Neither one said anything about the nature of religion, _per se_, in the black community. Condescending Robot opened with a boilerplate “\*of course, religion is bad, m’kay” \*statement, then segued into a rant against black pastors as parasites.

So it is ok so say that all pastors are parasites we just can say that **black** pastors are parasites?

Or did the mods just give Der Trihs a pass, again.

> [@Interesting article on Black Atheism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-on-black-atheism/622293/46):
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> That pretty much describes religious leaders in general. You hand them money in return for nothing, and the reverends/priests/preachers/whatever spend much of it on themselves and on bigger, shiner churches/temples.

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