"...every major Protestant Christian denomination split over the issue of slavery in the Civil War, with Methodists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Baptists in the South all breaking fellowship with their Northern brethren.” Given that history, (Robert P.) Jones* says, “it’s hardly a surprise that a denial of systemic racism is a defining feature of White evangelicalism today.”
*Head of The Public Religion Policy Institute--PRPI
From a column by Jennifer Rubin in today's Washington Post
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