Evangelical Christians, All Racists! By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Academics are coming out attacking evangelical Christians with a fury not previously seen, no doubt inspired by the Demon-rats war upon white America. I wonder how long will it take, for my peer group to wake up? I am somewhat optimistic here, since our kind have apocalyptic believes anyway, see most liberals as going to hell, so it is not hard to take the next step and see the present nation as ruled by a hostile liberal elite, Satan’s legions, straight from the deepest pits of Hades. That is how this evangelical southern Florida Christian thinks, nursing my AR -15, and Glock .45, with a trusty oil cloth, since guns rust up quickly in the humidity of southern Florida.
Anyway, today is Saturday, and after a hard week’s work, it is off to the gun range, to exercise my fleeting American rights, to blaze away. Then I do voluntary work at the local gun shop, just to push my brand of politics to newies. Later in the day, sword training. Sunday, off to church, and an afternoon Bible study group of Christian survivalists, who are well-prepared for end times. Then back to church for the evening, home to a big roast of red meat off the bone.
“If evangelicals don’t change, they pose an existential crisis to us all … their racism, their sexism, their homophobia, their lack of belief in science, lack of belief and common sense may end up killing us all.’
Racism and the lost cause of the Confederacy is alive and thriving among today’s white evangelical Christians, argued three religion professors featured on a recent panel hosted by the University of Virginia titled “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.”
“I think that a strong and compelling argument can be made that it’s not just this lost cause narrative that still animates white evangelical Christianity wherever it exists, whether it’s on the West Coast, in the south,” said Larycia Hawkins, assistant professor of politics and religious studies at UVA.
“I lived in Chicago for 10 years and I came away telling my friends, upon reflection… the Midwest is Confederate. In fact, America is Confederate,” Hawkins said during the event.
“So deeply does white evangelicalism WASP religion penetrate the ethos and mythos of the United States. The lost cause is alive and well, not just in the folks who stormed the capital, not just in the folks who showed up in Charlottesville in the summer of 2016,” she said.
The panel also featured Anthea Butler, associate professor of religious and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of the new book “White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America.”
Butler, during the panel, argued that evangelicals who say they “don’t see color” promote “colorblind racism” since those who are evangelical are expected to act “white” and vote in ways that uphold white supremacy.
“When people say to you, ‘I don’t see color, I see what Jesus sees in you,’ that really actually means that they just see white,” she said.
“And that people who are in evangelicalism, like I was in previously, are considered to be white if they behave in certain kinds of ways. And if you don’t behave in those kinds of ways, or if you don’t accede to white evangelical cultural norms, that means that you are not acceptable,” Butler said, noting later in the webinar that “evangelicals are willing to die for whiteness.”
Butler said it’s not about theology, it’s about a position evangelical Christians have taken “that is taking us all over the brink.”
“And because they are being selfish and because they don’t care, their racism, their sexism, their homophobia, their lack of belief in science, lack of belief and common sense may end up killing us all,” Butler said.
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