RE: Just how pervasive is white supremacy among Christians?
August 20, 2018 at 10:52 am
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2018 at 10:55 am by Fake Messiah.)
(August 20, 2018 at 9:27 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 20, 2018 at 9:25 am)Khemikal Wrote: People aren't made of new magic books, so it wouldn't matter if a person -couldn't- point to some other verse to justify their prejudice..which, ofc..they can and do.
All I'm saying is that it takes a special kind of hate to twist around what is one of the most obvious concepts in the bible.
That's just it: KKK people don't see themselves as hateful or angry, but very loving and protective of the "right" people from "wrong" people to which they don't even consider human beings and there is more than plenty of that kind of "love" in the Bible, like:
The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on earth to be his people, his treasured possession. - Deuteronomy 7:6
Each of you shall kill any of your people who have yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. - Numbers 25:5
Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”
Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”
He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”
The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.
He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”
“Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”
Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment. - Matthew 15:21-28
You are doing the works of your own father.”
“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! - John 8:41-45
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off. - Exodus 23:23–33
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
