Religion and race/ethnicity

I have for a long time felt perplexed at the way dark skinned people embrace Christianity. The most striking example being the South American Negros.

Christianity was the religion of their enslavers, and the god figure was white. Why did the Negros grab on to this stuff and run with it?

I just read an article about female Mormon missionaries working in Australia and one of the girls is from Tonga. The article mentions that Tonga is the country with the largest percentage of Mormons per capita ... 60%! (I think the author screwed of badly here because other sources say 16% ... still a high percentage compared to the USA for example.)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-0...ionary/9499170

So here we have a double whammy. Dark skinned women embracing and promoting a religion that has a history of denigrating coloured and female folk.

From Wiki:

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Joseph Smith and Brigham Young reasoned that black skin was a result of the Curse of Cain or the Curse of Ham. They used these Biblical curses to justify slavery. Young believed the curse made black people ineligible to vote, marry white people, or hold the priesthood.

Of course we all know about the Mormon Church being cool with the idea of multiple wives a few years back.

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