Black Atheists in America

It is a sad statement, that I am so deprived of good journalism and ethical media in the United States, that my only true outlet for intellectual conversation is the BBC World Service from Brittan on my local NPR Radio Station or off the interweb.

This morning I woke to a particularly good episode of the BBC World about the issue of Black Atheism. Atheist in the US have the same problems as in most nations, alienated by the communities of faith, and ostracized for their lack of shared beliefs in the supernatural, American Atheists suffer the same social and economic bigotry, even attacks, that non-believers have always suffered. But for African-Americans, facing the double issue of American Slavery and Atheist Bigotry, they risk loosing their already marginalized Black Christian or Muslim communities for pursuit of their intellectual maturity.

What really surprised me was the quality of this radio program, and the fact that the BBC had employed an American Journalist to cover this subject on BBC World, when the BBC has regular programs about religion.

This particular episode of BBC World was quite well done. I would like to reference it when I write upon the subject of 'Faith in Reason', and the uniquely complex intellectual and emotional dilemma of Black Atheists in the USA, given our history of slavery and Christian involvement in the Civil Rights movements. I think I would very much like to meet and befriend Black American Atheists.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00xm849

The fact is that Europeans in General and the British Broadcasting Corporation in particular are far ahead of the US in terms of intellectual progress, and they do not shy from difficult and obscure subjects, and the excellence of their work is well beyond anything we now have in the USA. I "thank god" there is are still progressive minds somewhere upon the Earth, but even in Brittian the complex issues of faith are under pressure and controversy as public media resources are used for religion and the question of atheism rases new conflict.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200593/Keep-faith-BBC-resists-calls-atheists-Radio-4s-Thought-Day-God-Slot.html