Just how pervasive is white supremacy among Christians?

[Rev. Rye]

Yeah, it's hard to tell how pervasive white supremacy is in Christianity, although one thing is becoming obvious: evangelical Christianity (especially the American type) is built on assumptions that, while not explicitly racist, have become sublimated into a recognisable form.

For instance, this blogger (a former follower of Bill Gothard who identifies as Christian, but stopped going to Church over a year ago because Evangelicalism has embraced Trump so heavily and the ugly stuff bubbling below the surface has finally come out into the open) once wrote a blog post about the links between the origins of American fundamentalism and white supremacists, not exactly the Klan or Neo-Nazis, but one name stands out: Robert Lewis Dabney, a chaplain to Stonewall Jackson who wrote apologias for the antebellum South's system of chattel slavery. In his series on Christian Patriarchy and Related Issues, as well as a long series of posts on Modesty Culture, he occasionally points out the implicit racism inherent in many of the evangelical movement's ideals.

To be fair, he focuses more on some of the more extreme fundamentalists than the "mainstream", but the line between evangelicalism and those extreme fundamentalists is a lot thinner than one would expect. Mainline Christians might be a bit less racist (the last time I went to my old church, Bush was still president, and, after that, my mother dragged me into a more liberal church, and only on Easter and Christmas), but probably not by too much.