In the Des Moines Register, an Afro American pastor, Rev. Bill McGill wrote an editorial titled, "Cynical about Christian Coalition's concerns." In this article, McGill stated, correctly in my opinion, "If they are authentically concerned they should stop preaching the lie that this country was founded on 'Christian' principles and values, and teach their children that only a godless people would be responsible for Indian genocide and African enslavement."
Even our founding fathers were involved in Indian genocide and African enslavement. In other words, they were tyrants.
John Perkins once wrote that Mississippi would have better off without the white evangelical church which neglected justice and the love of God.
Lee Harper, a Mississippian, expressed it this way: "For injustice ran deep and cloaked itself well among those things that appeared just."
In the 1980s, white evangelicals voted in large numbers for Ronald Reagan, a nominal Christian who was a racist. And 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, another racist president. Why do white evangelicals ignore the extensive biblical teaching on oppression and justice?
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