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walkingman

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5. Today's white evangelical community is foreign from the one I grew up with
Thu Jan 18, 2024, 12:59 PM
Jan 2024

and having said that I left the evangelical church (Baptist) when I was 17 years old based on the fact that during the civil rights movement of the 1960s most of the "Christians" I knew were unapologetic racists and in many cases I pretty sure KKk members and hypocrites. I have to say that members of my family supported these beliefs.

But the white evangelical church of today even as it claims to be less racist seems to be more of a political movement rather than a spiritual one. Just listening to these folks is stressful to me and it is hard to get away from living in the Bible Belt.

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