• nieminen@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Right, it’s especially rich because that the demographic that’s overwhelmingly “Christian” despite consistently voting against policies that align with “Christ’s” teachings.

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      1 month ago

      The Southern Baptist Convention schismed from the Triennial Convention (the National Baptist group) because the national Baptists weren’t pro-slavery enough.

      The SBC is based fundamentally around racism, it was founded on racism, one of the beliefs I was exposed to in the south was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_Ham

      They taught themselves that their brand of Christianity was their only defense against brown people and their Northern masters who want to destroy the “Southern Way of Life”, and now it’s just a siege mentality with whichever conman comes around.