On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Maarten Baute wrote: > > Hmm... this begs a question that i've been pondering for a while... How > many > > (not to forget who) producers/DJ's are religious? I heard the Burden > family > > is Jehova's Witnesses, but who else... And who are the atheists in our > > midst? .... And I guess since I'm posing the question, I should answer it > > too... I'm an atheist, but respecting and being interested in religion. > > I?m an atheist too... but most of the black people in Detroit do believe I > guess... this probably dates back to the days of slavery?? somebody on this > list must be able to explain?
As most black people in Detroit are Americans, and most Americans are Christian (at least this is what they say on surveys), we don't need to go back to slavery to understand this phenomenon. > What does scare me.. is that in the US, there is on the dollar bills "in god > we trust" this would never be tolerated here in Europe, because it is > discriminating to the people who do not believe. Yep. I believe there was a big brouhaha about this back in the day. > And Bush saying: "god is with us, with america" and all that crap.. man... > One would start to believe that all americans are religious. No...but one would start to believe that Americans are very very arrogant to believe that God is with America, but not anyone else.... peace lks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
