Back in 1960 MLK was interviewed by ‘Meet the Press’, he said: “I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hours, in Christian America.”
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It’s been 60 years since that comment and while a lot has changed, not a whole lot has changed. The white evangelical church continues to be the force underneath white supremacist ideologies in the US. And we keep talking about white supremacy but...
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failing to address that it is toxic theology what pushes its ideological notions.
Before the civil rights movement White Evangelical Christians were overt in their alignment with white supremacy, before the 13th amendment that changed the rules of slavery in 1865,
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Before the civil rights movement White Evangelical Christians were overt in their alignment with white supremacy, before the 13th amendment that changed the rules of slavery in 1865,
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many white evangelicals were slave owning people. In the name of Christianity native people were stripped of their culture, their names, their land and their communities; their children taken from them and sent to boarding schools to learn about “The Lord.”
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Nothing changes unless we address root issues, and we keep tip toeing around christianity like it hasn’t been THE weapon of white supremacy in the last 500 yrs in America as a continent. White supremacy exists because Christians believed their superiority was mandated by God.
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We can’t keep pretending this toxic theology isn’t the reason we are where we are.
White evangelicals love to talk about repentance, and they love to talk about unity and how grieved they are to see so much division. Well repent then,
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White evangelicals love to talk about repentance, and they love to talk about unity and how grieved they are to see so much division. Well repent then,
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repent of your religion’s complicity with systems of oppression; repent of your hunger for power and control; repent of your superiority complex; repent of your abusive theology; repent of your greed; repent!
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Because nothing will truly change until White Evangelical Christians admit the division comes due to the fact that they have believed for far too long that everyone is inferior to them, that they know what’s best, and that God chose them to lead. Repent!
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