7-year-old girl killed after white man pulls alongside black family's car and opens fire

[MikeIsInProcess]

31. Not a Christian nation?

Let’s not pretend that Christianity has meaningful standards. It was ambiguous enough to be compatible with 1930s Germany, an overwhelmingly Christian (and educated and culturally literate) nation. It was ambiguous enough to be compatible with the Confederacy, and was compatible enough with the THREE major denominations that split over slavery and formed Southern conferences (one of which still exists today). It was ambiguous enough to be compatible with Martin Luther and his horrific statements on Jews (and on reason itself, by the way). The KKK and other groups still feel that Christianity is perfectly compatible. There’s a reason they burn *crosses*.

There was Christianity in abundance on both sides of the Mason Dixon line. The ambiguous religion was apparently helpless to resolve our great dispute regarding that peculiar institution, and in the end the problem was eliminated (as minimally as possible) by superior firepower, with many Christians not forgiving such outrage even to this day. The institution was formerly killed, the underlying prejudices remained.

(And to be clear, on the issue of slavery I wouldn’t say that the Bible was particularly ambiguous: it speaks in strong affirmation of the institution, a point that Confederates thundered from their pulpits about as often as there were listeners gathered.)

It seems to be some form of idealism that there are meaningful standards involved here.

Christianity is as Christianity does.

I’m happy to argue that this is not a Christian nation, but racism isn’t the reasoning I’d use.