Racism among Christians

[luzribeiro]

In public opinion polls, a clear pattern has emerged: white Christians are consistently more likely than whites who are religiously unaffiliated to deny the existence of structural racism.

A close read of history reveals that white Christians have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as many Western nations' dominant cultural power, they have constructed and sustained a project of perpetuating white supremacy that has framed the entire modern story. The legacy of this unholy union still lives in the DNA of white Christianity today — and not just among white evangelical Protestants in the US South, but also among white mainline Protestants in the Midwest and white Catholics in the Northeast.

Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence.
For most of American history, the light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations demanded the preservation of inequality as part of the divine order.

Have you noticed as a kid how Sunday is the most segregated day of the week? If Jesus was an actual person, I would hope he would frown upon the way people of faith conduct themselves. Why are they the way they are? Why be contradictory to the faith they claim to follow?

Years ago, I saw some statistics that strongly supported the suspicion that churches tend to be the most segregated institutions in America today. For whatever reasons, whites and blacks in America tend NOT to worship together.

Comments

Have I Noticed?

[dewline]

Yes.

[nairiporter]

It seems to me that church segregation is one of many manifestations of prevalent racial and ethnic segregation that has existed in US society since its inception. Same could probably be said about many other Western societies, including ones in Europe, but probably not to the same extent and of course they all have their specific dynamics.

[jazzyjj]

Agreed with you all the way. I wonder if the same thing could be said about COVID-19. Or perhaps science in general. It seems to me that all or most of the anti-maskers/anti-vaxers are white, male Christians who live in the south with a few exceptions of course.