White Christians Are More Racist Than Non-Religious People, Claims Researcher

[NeoGreen]

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/07/30/white-christians-are-more-racist-than-non-religious-people-claims-researcher/

White Christians Are More Racist Than Non-Religious People, Claims Researcher
By Val Wilde, July 30, 2020

Given the common association between Christianity and conservatism, especially in these political times, it seems intuitive to expect white evangelicals to hold more racist views and beliefs than unbelievers.

Never content to rest on intuitive assumptions about the religious, Robert P. Jones has done the research to confirm it, and it’s true: White Christians are more likely to be racist, he announced in an article on NBC News’ opinion platform, Think.

Jones is the CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). Himself a practicing Christian, he has spent more than two decades studying the relationship between one’s religious affiliation and their beliefs, perceptions, and values. He says the pattern has been emerging for years.

As an example, he cites a 2018 PRRI survey: In it, seven in ten white evangelicals denied the role of structural racism in police killings of Black men, dismissing the events as isolated incidents. A smaller majority also argued that systemic barriers had nothing to do with higher rates of poverty in racialized communities — those people just needed to try harder.

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So it’s not that religion inherently causes racism, says Jones. Rather, the racism that existed in American society through history impacted the development of American social institutions, and that includes religion.

[Brainstormy]

1. to which I say,

Duh.

[LonePirate]

2. American Christianity has been a bastion of racism for centuries.

[sanatanadharma]

3. Makes sense since Christianity is rooted in In-group/Out-group mentality

It is much easier to be narrow-minded as in racist (other -ist's) when one's weltanschauung divides the world into categories of worthiness.

This is a deeply embedded problem in western-protestant societies.

[Midnight Writer]

5. Exactly.

But I would go beyond western-protestant societies. Take the caste system of the Hindus as an example, or the Shiite-Sunni divide.

[Act_of_Reparation]

7. It is not a "western-protestant" problem.

Catholic societies are plenty racist, too.

[lunasun]

4. History

Is this a new revelation ? They may have mutated but the racism stays . They can assign the devil to whatever fits their narrative of fear and salvation
Also, let’s not forget other bigotry against gay people, other world religions and women in general

Most that they are prejudiced against want nothing to do with these people and just want to exist but Christians put targets on their backs in the name of Jesus anyway cuz they gotta nose or conquer

[Iggo]

6. It's easy to blame Santa Claus.