{"id":1903,"date":"2012-08-28T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/08\/speaking-in-tongues-a-critical-comment-about-the-comments.html"},"modified":"2012-08-28T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:40:00","slug":"speaking-in-tongues-a-critical-comment-about-the-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/08\/speaking-in-tongues-a-critical-comment-about-the-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"Speaking in Tongues: A Critical Comment about the Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>When Sikivu Hutchinson of Black Skeptics posted my blog on July 27, 2012, I was pleasantly surprised by the many supportive comments and feedback.  With the exception of a few \u201choly rollers\u201d who told me that they were going to pray for me, my blog \u201cThere is No Wipe-Out Story,\u201d was widely accepted.  However, as I reviewed the comments, I found a very interesting thing at work in the comments section from nonbelievers or atheists:  many wanted to know \u201cmore\u201d about \u201cmy story.\u201d  At first I didn\u2019t totally understand what \u201cmore\u201d they wanted to know.  I found this question, or need to know more a little ironic, because they were doing the very thing that I wrote about.  They wanted to know many intricate details to chronicle \u201cwhat happened\u201d to change my mind, to make me go from believer to nonbeliever.  I guess what I said in the blog was not enough:  basically, over many years, I just stopped believing in God.  Normally, it is believers who want to know more about this subject, but this time, it was mostly the nonbelievers or the atheists who had the probing questions.  There was even one commentator who contacted me on Facebook \u2122 and presented me with the following comment\/question:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am fascinated that there seems to be fewer minorities who are atheist and why is that.  I\u2019m guessing that part of the reason many in \u2018the black community\u2019 stay religious is that churches were involved in Civil Rights [sic] and the Moses myth is used to stand for liberation.  But the Bible says \u2018Slaves, obey your masters.\u2019\u201d<br>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/blackskeptics\/2012\/08\/28\/speaking-in-tongues-a-critical-comment-about-the-comments\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Sikivu Hutchinson of Black Skeptics posted my blog on July 27, 2012, I was pleasantly surprised by the many supportive comments and feedback. 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