This ain’t the race card. Ruby pricked your callused conscience just a tad, Maybe?
This just popped up as we speak:
According to Jones and Walrond, people of faith need to acknowledge the "perverse role of a distorted Christianity in fueling rampant racism."
In the wake of the Jacksonville shooting this month that left three Black people dead, carried out by racist Ryan Palmeter, Salon published an op-ed written by two religious leaders who say that, despite the fact that there's no evidence the shooter was influenced by far-right Christianity, the...
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For us, as people of faith, that means acknowledging the perverse role of a distorted Christianity in fueling rampant racism.
This distorted Christianity is at the core of our nation's deep history of racism.
Starting from the very beginning of European settlement, colonists used the Bible to claim Christian explorers had a divine right to seize lands that were not inhabited by Christians. They also argued that they had a godly duty to bring the Bible to native lands. These "Biblical" missions left fields of blood and fire behind them.
Then, as colonists took over the South, Christianity became a lynchpin of slavery. Faith leaders and policymakers professed that the Bible contained passages that clearly supported enslavement. For example, they claimed that
Noah's curse on Ham in Genesis 9:20-27 justified the subjugation of Black people. In some areas, slaveholders also distributed tainted Bibles that removed mentions of freedom and equality.
Trump’s loyalty from the white Evangelical community will hold for awhile yet because Jenna Ellis is one of their own - but her days are numbered as more and more truth comes out.
And at some point very quickly it will be over. It will be over for a lot of Republicans if they nominate Trump.