Opinion | Robert P. Jones: Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. That's no coincidence. - NBCNewsTHINK
Consider the cultural context in which American Christianity, both Protestant and Catholic, was born. In the 18th and 19th centuries, as Protestant churches were springing up in newly settled territories after Native American populations were forcibly removed, it was common practice — observed, for example, at the Baptist church that was the progenitor of my parents' church in Macon, Georgia — for slaveholding whites to take enslaved people to church with them.
In these seedbeds of American Christianity, an a priori commitment to white supremacy shaped what could be practiced and preached . Such early distortions influenced how white Christians came to embody and understand their faith and determined what was handed down from one generation to the next.
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