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You are right. But do you really think church attendance has anything to do with true faith? It has not a single bit to do with anything. I have a grandfather that has gone to his Baptist church 15,000 times in his life and he doesn't get Christianity and what it's about for a second.

Do you know what kind of garbage is flowing out of so many of these churches? In the early 20th Century, the Abyssinian Baptist Church was one of the most influential, Christ-filled, churches this country has ever seen. Now, it is a Communist-loving dumphole that has not a clue.

But please, don't look to renew the spirit in these churches in these communities. Keep making excuses for the gangbangers and thugs terrorizing the black communities. Blame it all on CEOs and free traitors and capitalists and Republicans and everyone else you can find. I'm sure with that approach things will change and the Black churches and unity will be back to what they were in no time.

Your rebuttal of common sense is absolutely astounding. The black community is the most pious in America. But all the piety in the world is no match for the fact that deindustrialization destroyed the economic base of urban black America. When that was done law abiding, respectable people lost the power to control young people by being able to offer them hope for the future. Deindustrialization destroyed the power of respectable society and left a vacuum to be filled by street culture.

It happenned in England. What tamed the underclass of "Oliver Twist", an underclass that was created by another free market upheaval (the mass dispossession of English peasants by their landlords when the British gentry deemed it more profitable to raise sheep for wool than to raise grain called "enclosure") was the combination of the Victorian reform movements of Wesley, Wilberforce, etc, emigration and a fresh start, and a growing demand for industrial labor which offered them a chance to leave the street and enter respectable society. Funny how you have such trouble with the obvious fact that people's worldview is based upon an assesment of their economic prospects.