but i still have trouble squaring that with the fact that pretty much any black christian in america - you're only christian because at some point in your ancestry a slave master said to your forefather, "you're a christian now or you hang" - simple as that

but i guess thats really no different (much more despicable, but functionally no different) than the way that religion is simply a geographic anomaly to begin with. you can believe in christianity to the depths of your soul, but the fact is that if you happened to be born in india, you'd probably be hindu. if you happened to be born in the middle east, you'd probably be muslim. Etc.