# Interesting article on Black Atheism

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**Created:** [May 18, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-on-black-atheism/622293 "2012-05-18T05:49:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-article-on-black-atheism/622293/46 "2012-05-19T22:13:19Z")

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> [@Condescending\_Robot](#):
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> Yes, anyone who objects to people profiting by stealing from and lying to black communities is the real racist. Objecting to a small elite class within black people who devote their lives to preying on the vast majority of black people is just so hateful.

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.

> [@Farmer\_Jane](#):
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> I’m still waiting for some backup to your claim that black ministers regularly steal from their members and run some kind of scam.

Religion is a scam; that’s part of the point he’s making. People give them money in return for empty promises about an imaginary afterlife. He’s just claiming that black ministers are worse than average. However, whether they are or not, them being a type of priest automatically makes them scam artists; although unlike most scams, in religion sometimes the scam artist actually believes it himself.

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