White Supremacy Has Historical Roots in American Christianity

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White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity

And a quote that is relevant to our current era:

Some white Christian leaders have even provided moral and theological reasoning for their reluctance to challenge the existing system. Evangelicals in particular generally prioritize an individual's own salvation experience over social concerns. The primary mission of the church in this view is to win souls for Christ. Working for racial justice, in contrast, may be seen as a "political" issue.

"In that configuration, immorality only lives in the individual person," said Dupont, the religion historian who grew up in Texas. "There's no conception of systemic injustice and systemic sin."

Civil rights activists who cited the Bible in support of their cause were often dismissed as "a bunch of theological liberals," Dupont said. "And then it becomes an argument about who really believes the Bible. If Christianity is really about individual salvation, and the mission of the church is to win the lost, then [it is said that] these people who are telling us we need to get involved in the civil rights movement are just trying to lead us astray."

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America is rooted in a Christian tradition, therefore all political movements that sprung from it also liberally borrowed from this tradition (including, paradoxically, movements that explicitly rejected Christianity). This includes the white supremacists in the South, but it would be dishonest or ignorant to ignore religious influence on abolitionism and the civil rights movement. In Douglass' most famous speech he speaks at length of how Christianity represents both a corrupt institution of slave power and (to him) the methods of destroying that power simultaneously.

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America is rooted in a Christian tradition, therefore all political movements that sprung from it also liberally borrowed from this tradition (including, paradoxically, movements that explicitly rejected Christianity). This includes the white supremacists in the South, but it would be dishonest or ignorant to ignore religious influence on abolitionism and the civil rights movement. In Douglass' most famous speech he speaks at length of how Christianity represents both a corrupt institution of slave power and (to him) the methods of destroying that power simultaneously.

“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.“ - Frederick Douglass