"While some churches currently are involved in the struggle for Black liberation, many more are pulling Black people from the struggle and more into religious fanaticism, escapism, and a "wait and God will take care of everything" mentality. The Black church continues to make contributions to the freedom struggle. Today, however, it falls far short of the decisive contributions it made during slavery and even during the recent period of the civil rights struggles. Thus, the Black church comes closer to repeating the role that E. Franklin Frazier described some twenty years ago in The Negro Church in America: "[T]he Negro church and Negro religion cast a shadow over the entire intellectual life of Negroes and have been responsible for the so-called backwardness of American Negroes."

www.murchisoncenter.org/r...pter10.htm

That's a clipping from a website and they list their sources.

Basically, during slavery blacks were taught that so long as they were obedient, that would get into heaven. After all, "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter god"

The below study, whcih cited in the nation news, says that blacks are more religious than whites!

www.lubbockonline.com/new.../study.htm

And I would say many poor blacks are fanatics that in some ways are more extreme than Reverend Faldwell (more religious than Jesus). And yet, blacks are considerably poorer than whites, for all their religion!

"Blacks are more traditionally religious than whites. They are more likely than whites to be Protestant, while whites are more likely than blacks to be Catholic. Blacks are more likely to have an unwavering belief in God and to interpret the Bible literally. They are also more active in religious practice."

www.newstrategist.com/boo...reword.htm