“How Can You Be a Christian with All You Know?” Karen Answers the Question

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5.0 • 687 Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Karen addresses the profoundly personal and challenging question, "How can you be a Christian with all you know?" candidly sharing her struggle to reconcile personal faith with the systemic hypocrisy and historical trauma often associated with religious institutions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome.
0:11.1	I am Karen Hunter.
0:12.8	And if you listen to me on Sirius XM,
0:15.1	and even in this space,
0:16.1	from time to time I may quote a scripture.
0:18.3	And from time to time,
0:19.3	I may talk about the Lord I may talk about God
0:23.8	on these airwaves and I got an email from someone who asked me how could I be a Christian
0:30.1	with everything that I know so I responded the first question is from at Les mom at L-E--Z Mom, M-O-M-M-S-E-C-5, Ms. Kai on Twitter.
0:42.9	She says, at Karen Hunter, Christianity is becoming more and more difficult for me.
0:47.3	Are you a Christian?
0:49.0	If so, as a profoundly educated and awakened black woman, how have you come to stomach this oppressive
0:56.0	white power religion?
0:58.0	Okay.
0:59.0	This actually is an easy question for me to answer your question, Kai.
1:03.0	Yes.
1:04.0	Yes, I consider myself a follow of Christ.
1:07.0	I have been so.
1:09.0	I was baptized at 11, but I didn't consider myself a Christian until my mid-20s,
1:14.6	early 30s when I went on this journey. And it started for me at the Daily News of all places.
1:21.5	I would do Bible study with a woman named Joyce Shelby and a young lady named Dawn who worked
1:26.5	in our library and we would do Bible study at lunch.
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