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Mar. 22nd, 2018 08:38 pmWhy White Evangelicism Is So Cruel
Excellent article, though it would have been better if the writer had been more clear in the end paragraph that white evangelicism only cares about RICH straight white men. That fact is laded through the rest of the article, though.
And this is why Southern Baptism has always felt like pure blasphemy to me, raised Northern Baptist-Lutheran-Quaker. I don't believe in such a thing as "blasphemy" any longer, and yet there's that gut response. The Christianity I was raised in centered human rights, environmentalism, helping the poor, justice and mercy. My grandparents marched with the Civil Rights movement and gave huge amounts of time and money to left-wing causes. And even the vast majority of other Christians I grew up with who weren't leftists loved science, did not take the Old Testament literally (or even care about it except for the Ten Commandments), and saw the Sermon on the Mount as the foundation of all of Christianity.
In Michigan, that mass media keeps conflating us with the Bible Belt is deeply offensive to people who are proud of our history of sending some of the first large regiments of volunteers to the Union side. People who never thought the Earth was 6000 years old, are fascinated by science, and who really do have plenty of black friends and family and don't appreciate being called names and treated like idiots because of things they cannot control by people who've never worried about the grocery bill. It was pissing people off enough when I moved. With the mainstream so-called "left" more interested in which celebrity used a word wrong than with lead in Flint's water, the rage is incandescent at this point.
But what are you gonna do? The Democratic Party recently put up someone for president who makes it ever more clear with every passing day that she hates us. Yes, us, I'm not gonna pretend where I came from isn't where I came from, and it was a pretty good place all in all. Trump's foul in every conceivable way. So what are you gonna do? Go fish.
After the union meeting, that is.
Excellent article, though it would have been better if the writer had been more clear in the end paragraph that white evangelicism only cares about RICH straight white men. That fact is laded through the rest of the article, though.
And this is why Southern Baptism has always felt like pure blasphemy to me, raised Northern Baptist-Lutheran-Quaker. I don't believe in such a thing as "blasphemy" any longer, and yet there's that gut response. The Christianity I was raised in centered human rights, environmentalism, helping the poor, justice and mercy. My grandparents marched with the Civil Rights movement and gave huge amounts of time and money to left-wing causes. And even the vast majority of other Christians I grew up with who weren't leftists loved science, did not take the Old Testament literally (or even care about it except for the Ten Commandments), and saw the Sermon on the Mount as the foundation of all of Christianity.
In Michigan, that mass media keeps conflating us with the Bible Belt is deeply offensive to people who are proud of our history of sending some of the first large regiments of volunteers to the Union side. People who never thought the Earth was 6000 years old, are fascinated by science, and who really do have plenty of black friends and family and don't appreciate being called names and treated like idiots because of things they cannot control by people who've never worried about the grocery bill. It was pissing people off enough when I moved. With the mainstream so-called "left" more interested in which celebrity used a word wrong than with lead in Flint's water, the rage is incandescent at this point.
But what are you gonna do? The Democratic Party recently put up someone for president who makes it ever more clear with every passing day that she hates us. Yes, us, I'm not gonna pretend where I came from isn't where I came from, and it was a pretty good place all in all. Trump's foul in every conceivable way. So what are you gonna do? Go fish.
After the union meeting, that is.
