Bishop Payne of the A.M.E. Church was so troubled that he questioned God’s existence: Sometimes it seems as though some wild beast had plunged his fangs into my heart, and was squeezing out its life-blood. Then I began to question the existence of God, and to say: “If he does exist, is he just? If so, why does he suffer one race to oppress and enslave another, to rob them by unrighteous enactments of rights, which they hold most dear and sacred? . . . Is there no God?”[53]
It's interesting that the doubt of God seen today yet a century ago was replicated due to our actions.
