Right on the spot, Georgia, as made clear in Thomas Frank's book, "What's the Matter with Kansas," and Hearther Cox Richardson's "How the South Won the Civil War." the billionaires are manipulating the white Protestants.
Right on the spot, Georgia, as made clear in Thomas Frank's book, "What's the Matter with Kansas," and Hearther Cox Richardson's "How the South Won the Civil War." the billionaires are manipulating the white Protestants.
I think it's important to distinguish between white evangelical Protestants and more mainstream Protestants, who are not immune to those politics but less likely to be manipulated by them. I regularly sign petitions by Faithful America, which is anti-Fascist.
Something that has always intrigued and puzzled me is how the slaves adopted "the white man's" religion. My guess was that their the slaves') condition was so miserable that it at least gave them hope that there would be a better place for them after death.
Well, at first the colonists wanted to "Christianize" Africans, although they were not usually welcome in white churches. It never seems to have dawned upon slaveholders that they might identify with the Hebrews held in bondage in Egypt. No accident that a famous spiritual is, "Let My People Go."
Right on the spot, Georgia, as made clear in Thomas Frank's book, "What's the Matter with Kansas," and Hearther Cox Richardson's "How the South Won the Civil War." the billionaires are manipulating the white Protestants.
I think it's important to distinguish between white evangelical Protestants and more mainstream Protestants, who are not immune to those politics but less likely to be manipulated by them. I regularly sign petitions by Faithful America, which is anti-Fascist.
I looked them up: https://www.faithfulamerica.org/
Something that has always intrigued and puzzled me is how the slaves adopted "the white man's" religion. My guess was that their the slaves') condition was so miserable that it at least gave them hope that there would be a better place for them after death.
Well, at first the colonists wanted to "Christianize" Africans, although they were not usually welcome in white churches. It never seems to have dawned upon slaveholders that they might identify with the Hebrews held in bondage in Egypt. No accident that a famous spiritual is, "Let My People Go."
Excellent point.