Today, 1July 2020, @NPR All Things Considered on US Christianity & W. Supremacy
White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity
July 1, 20201:38 PM ET
Source--"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity
Transcript is online.
snip--"...Two of the Freedom Riders, the civil rights activist John Lewis and a white ally, James Zwerg, were beaten unconscious."
snip--" Though he had grown up in Mississippi and was familiar with the history of racial conflict in the South,{ Southern Baptist pastor named Alan} Cross was horrified by the story of the 1961 attack on the Freedom Riders. Montgomery was known as a city of churches. Fresh out of seminary, Cross had come there to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.
"Why didn't white Christians show up?" he recalls wondering."
snip--"The answer to the question lies partly in U.S. history, beginning in the days of slavery and Jim Crow segregation, but not ending there. Elements of racist ideology have long been present in white Christianity in the United States."
way too long for me to c&p.
The broadcast will happen sometime after 4 eastern US time.
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Definitely worth taking the time to read.
From the article:
'Slavery, in the minds of many, was necessary for the South to thrive," says Bobby Donaldson, director of the Center for Civil Rights History and Research at the University of South Carolina. "So Thornwell used his pulpit to defend the South against charges by the North, by abolitionists. ... He provided the intellectual defenses that many slaveholders needed."
Great post! 
