Kaffir Boy Journal #7 On different religions

We blacks believe in different things than the whites. We believe and worship tribal and ancestor gods, and the whites believe in the Christian God. Since my father forced our family to believe in tribal and ancestor gods, we weren’t allowed to learn about the other ones. When the evangelist were explaining about their God, it was quite interesting to hear. The stories from the Old Testament and New Testament fascinated me the most. If you couldn’t tell already I like action, and the Old Testament had a lot of action in it. People who believe in the tribal gods believe that they are the ones who protect them from bad spirits. They also do sacrifices. People who believed in ancestor gods for many years don’t even want Christianity. They say it’s a white man’s god and that they have their own. (Black man’s god) They say that they don’t need Christ. They believe that their gods are the ones who provide for them. Those who believe in the Christian God believe that Christ is their savior and that he always and always will provide for them. They also believe that if you believe and trust in Christ, you’ll go to heaven. My mother decided to become a “Christian.” My father doesn’t think Christianity is useful to black people, along with other people. How would know what is useful to one if the person didn’t try it out? Anyway I guess you can’t force anyone to do want you want them to do. What I think is that, the evangelist was shoving the teachings down people’s throat. Maybe if they tried teach people about Christianity and not scare them or whatever. But like I said to me the Old Testament and the New Testament were good stories and that I didn’t really care about the religions to much. Maybe it’s because I don’t really understand them or maybe because things don’t make sense to me. I really don’t know what it is but something just doesn’t seem right between both of them. So I didn’t really bother with them. Honestly Christianity seemed less strict than the tribal laws. Our neighbors, who are Christians, seem to live better than those who are tribal. They don’t seem to run out on food, they have better furniture than us, they would have better comfortable beds, they would even have radios.