In the article at the link below, “Christianity Owes Very Little to ‘White’ People”, author Candida Moss exposes the lies told by Republican National Convention congressman Steve King. These are the same lies most conservative Christians prefer to believe as fact, but history and science know them to be white conservative fairytales.
King’s assertion that, “white people had been responsible for humanity’s greatest achievements including, among other things, the spread of Christianity,” are patently untrue.
But, with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign re-energizing the white supremacists’ agenda, it is easy to see why King’s words would be so loudly cheered and embraced by conservatives.
The author goes on to explain that, “...if what King means by white and western is European and pale (put otherwise, people Donald Trump might allow to immigrate here), none of the first followers of Jesus or many of the key figures in the first four hundred years of the Christian Era would qualify. These are the people without whom Christianity wouldn’t exist.”
Simply put, the white western race(s) had absolutely nothing to do with the establishment and most important era of growth for the Christian religion. This fact is another bitter pill for the Christian conservatives to swallow.
In the U.S. today, the Christian religion as practiced by the vast majority of conservatives bears no resemblance to that of the religion’s “Founding Father.” The Bible, like the U.S. Constitution, is reinterpreted by conservatives to bend and reshape the statements in both that most suit the oppressive agenda of conservatism.
Of course, right wing Christians will deny these facts as they do most others, and the will continue to believe that the original Christians were blue-eyed and blond, like the Nazi’s Aryans.
Christianity Owes Very Little to ‘White’ People
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Despite the firm belief of right-wingers to the contrary, denial of facts in no way refutes them, and changing the subject does not win the debate.
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King’s assertion that, “white people had been responsible for humanity’s greatest achievements including, among other things, the spread of Christianity,” are patently untrue.
But, with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign re-energizing the white supremacists’ agenda, it is easy to see why King’s words would be so loudly cheered and embraced by conservatives.
The author goes on to explain that, “...if what King means by white and western is European and pale (put otherwise, people Donald Trump might allow to immigrate here), none of the first followers of Jesus or many of the key figures in the first four hundred years of the Christian Era would qualify. These are the people without whom Christianity wouldn’t exist.”
Simply put, the white western race(s) had absolutely nothing to do with the establishment and most important era of growth for the Christian religion. This fact is another bitter pill for the Christian conservatives to swallow.
In the U.S. today, the Christian religion as practiced by the vast majority of conservatives bears no resemblance to that of the religion’s “Founding Father.” The Bible, like the U.S. Constitution, is reinterpreted by conservatives to bend and reshape the statements in both that most suit the oppressive agenda of conservatism.
Of course, right wing Christians will deny these facts as they do most others, and the will continue to believe that the original Christians were blue-eyed and blond, like the Nazi’s Aryans.
Christianity Owes Very Little to ‘White’ People
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Despite the firm belief of right-wingers to the contrary, denial of facts in no way refutes them, and changing the subject does not win the debate.
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