Actually 83% of African Americans are protestant. Whites are only 53% but that racial religious landscape survey was done in 2014. In Africa over 90% so race has everything to do with it. The wealthiest blacks are still religious.

Also, I live in MN, which is pretty white even without the snow AND I'm in a city that only has about 55,000 people. My local atheist group does have one "token" black guy. He's originally from Ethiopia and grew up very religious. I love following his discussions on Facebook because he knows the bible inside and out! It's funny watching religious people get called out when they get bible passages wrong.

I get into arguments trying to explain this simple fact to people. Its maddening.

You can be whatever I want You to be? Wow I usually have to pay good money for that kind of thing!

I have no way of knowing but it seems unlikely to me that 'race' is a determinate in ones susceptibility to religion. I would have thought lack of education and access to resources more likely candidates

@JimmyM my point is, does it really matter if I am white, black or pink? (In this virtual context)

@IamNobody sorry for my little jest.
I understand your point but i think it does matter even in the online world. This forum is a place where folk discuss ideas. Who we are and the experiences we've had are very important to those ideas. Ergo.....

@JimmyM nothing to be sorry about... That actually proves my point. You tried to push my buttons by hoping you would make me your bitch and yet, I stand correct. I am an idea, a virtual entity, I don't really exist. You can pay for my services if you really really really want to send money but what do you think are going to get? Ok, within the same lines, you pay me for sexual services (you brought this up, I didn't) an the only thing I can do is talk dirty. Does it matter if I am of any particular race or gender? So no worries, I didn't take it as a little jest, to me it was more like you didn't really understand what I was talking about. It seems that you do now. Cheers dude.

@JimmyM That was funny.

Africans and people in poverty are sort of synonymous, are they not? There are many affluent, african american zealots as well. Affluence does not necessarily have anything to do with intelligence in the scientific sense, anyhow.

So I will have to disagree here.

@BryanLV You mean Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Chinese, Malays, Albanians, Ecuadorians, etc are not also "people in poverty"?
Don't single out Africans, please.

@Petter Africans would be among those disproportionately affected by religion and poverty. We are speaking about a specific group. Not singling out. You are attempting to move the goal post and in doing so, are off point.

@BryanLV OK. but your comments apply equally well to religiously brainwashed Pakistanis, to mention just one other group.

When you say a number, you mean like less than 10%. Which is what she is getting at. You named one black person, and a few in a group, out of millions of Africans and African Americans.

I'm wondering if there's any African american ladies that would be interested in a white guy that believes in living a simple quiet responsible life that is retired

Im going to have to agree here.

Then they add popular culture and colloquialism on top of it and the stupidity just explodes.

Dumb shit like, "I know god got me." .... Ensues and its just all downhill from there.

Me again, I think I misspoke concerning other persons of color on this web site. There are no boubt

Me again, I think I misspoke concerning persons of color on this website I guess there are many.

There is a correlation between skin color, level of wealth and education and religiosity. I do not think she is saying that people with darkly pigmented skin are somehow more predisposed to lower intelligence, and thus being religious.

She seems to be saying that there simply are more per capita, with all actual factors taken into account. Africans and African Americans identify as religious; specifically and predominately christian. Many of the arguments here to the contrary seem to be pointing to causation, and not actuality.

I considered it but would first need to ask everyone about their race and as a progressive site, it's a bit of an anachronism.

@Admin Yeah, I fi9gred that was the way the site would go.

I happen to be a white guy who finds (thin) Asian guys to be the most physically attractive, so even though I'd personally benefit from an ethnic filter in the "Meet" section, I have to aqgree with your decision to keep the site as more progressive, where the only race people think of is the just all one human race. It would be a better world if more people thought that way.