The Demonization of Black Religions

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CHILDREN OF THE CHALK😭😭😭

dang I don't think I've ever been hyped up like that, I gotta up my game <3

As a former Christian who became an atheist, despite desperately not wanting to become one, what Khadija said about dealing with her loss of religion resonated with me hard.

As a Haitian, seeing palm people embrace voudon so hard while my own people despise it really makes me sad

The intro being 50% CJ talking shit is exactly why I love this community

When you said that “maybe christianity has also been co-opted” I burst into laughter and happy tears others understand

How are you gonna tell me there’s a whole Anita Sarkeesian special and the return of Lindsey Ellis somewhere and expect me to keep watching? I’m signing up on my phone, but you are testing my resolve!🔥

When you mentioned church being the home of both homophobia AND healing...that HIT for me!! Well said. I'm trying to wrestle with a proper analogy for something this brought up

As a queer Christian let me tell you, I've been waiting a hell of a long time for a video like this. I'm going to have to watch it at least once more to take it all in, but damn. This is good. This is really good.

There was a long time when I didn’t cut my hair at all. Finally I decided to give mysef a buzz-cut. At the time I was starting to work on a play, The Women. I was at a rehearsal where all the actors, the director, and most of the crew were women. I was one of three men at the rehearsal. One of the other men was a friend of mine who’s gay. He saw my freshly trimmed head and bounded across the warehouse and started rubbing my head and saying, “I love your new cut! I saw you out of the corner out of my eye and thought, ‘Hot guy! Hot guy!’” I hope I was grateful enough externally but internally I was screaming, “Not you! There’s 20 women here! Why can’t one of them be this excited?” The next day I realized I needed to calm t f down. At the very least, if I’m going to be guided by stereotypes I should be positive about it and if the gay guy is telling me cutting my hair looked good the proper reaction is to say “Thank you” and accept the compliment. The next time I saw him I said something along the lines of “I don’t get told I look good that often and your excitement felt good. Thank you for that!”

Another thing that is kind of blurry is what is and isn't a compliment. It's okay to be uncomfortable at the way the person approached you outside of the gender of the person. That can get mixed up with old biases ad it's good to unpack, but it's still okay to feel uncomfortable. If someone approached me like that I'm out of there.

The bit where CJ is talking about how much Jesus actually flew in the face of the contemporary mainstream religion of his day is actually really funny/sad in retrospect, because that's actually a cycle that's continually happened in multiple different denominations of Christianity for years, if you do any reading about the early EARLY Baptist church it's wild how out of step with a lot of the modern (Southern) Baptists are with the original proponents of the denominations and how much of their theology actively flew in the face of the mainstream at the time it started, this is also true of the Quakers in a lot of respects as well.

i've been struggling with religious trauma since i was a kid and i genuinely feel like this video healed something in me

"my lips was too dry" IM HOLLERING

They are always renovating huh? 🤔

So well put together, this conversation is so necessary 💯

"my grandma, my Indian grandma is racist" damn CJ exposing my life

This was a good video. I know I’m never going to be a religious person but I do know that there are plenty of genuinely good religious people out there who don’t use it as an excuse to oppress others…though all the good ones I know are also pocs and queer.

I need a 7-part, 2hr/episode series with Khadija, CJ the X and you🤌 felt like I was chopping it up with my soul family.