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In reply to the discussion: Ed Schultz EXPOSES Cause Of Racism In The South [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)it is pure anecdotal "evidence". One woman tells Schulz that she heard something at a church and she expands that to include all the churches in the south, but only the white churches.
Oh, I know that some churches are playing politics and probably some pastors are preaching racism to some congregations, but I don't believe it is universal or even that widespread.
The politics probably is. Many churches and their members are strongly anti-abortion. My Archbishop in the Catholic church said our Governor could not take communion because of her stance on abortion, and because she vetoed some bill. I notice the defeaning silence now about our Republican Governor's tax plan that screws the poor, but come on, since when does the Catholic church care about the poor?
So I am kinda surprised when you say you have never heard anything political.
I consider that a failure of the church. The church can be, and should be, very political - on the side of the poor and the working people. One thing that is mentioned about the early church, in Acts 2: 43 and also Acts 4: 32, is that "there were no poor or needy persons among them" and the very communistic statement "neither did anyone say that the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common." I do not believe the Gospel, at least the way that Jesus taught it, is politically neutral. I am guessing the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King might agree too.