Lawrence O'Donnell just did the best example of intellectual dishonesty ...

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13. gotta say, tho

...just as it's not right or correct to conflate all of Islam or Muslim theology with terrorism; the same dissonancy should apply to Christianity (mostly southern Baptist, in this case) and the Klan.

I can't regard burning a cross as particularly 'Christian', although Klan members may well have believed their god approved. I see it as a mostly cynical, opportunistic appropriation, though, not one that was inextricably linked with any church doctrine on racism; unlike Mormon theology which drew analogous references from the bible to claim superiority of whites over blacks.