Hosanna!

“The next day the great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.  So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, shouting, ‘Hosanna!  Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord– the King of Israel!’  Jesus found a young donkey […]

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How racism questions God

“Since racism assumes some segments of humanity to be defective in essential being, and since for Christians all being is from the hand of God, racism alone among the idolatries calls into question the divine creative action.  The central claim of the racist is fundamentally a proposition concerning the nature of creation and the action […]

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Race Fact #8

Racism is a religion.  It is a faith. Ruth Benedict defines racism as”the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by Nature to hereditary inferiority and another group is destined to hereditary superiority.  It is the dogma that the hope of civilization depends upon eliminating some races and keeping others pure.  It is the dogma […]

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If you’re Christian and a racist

“When the racist is also a Christian, which is often the case in America, he is frequently a polytheist.  Historically, in polytheistic faiths, various gods have controlled various spheres of authority.  Thus, a Christian racist may think he lives under the requirements of the God biblical faith in most areas of his life, but whenever […]

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Racism as Human Alienation

“It is this faith character of racism which makes it the final and complete form of human alienation.  Racism is human alienation purely and simply; it is the prototype of all human alienation.  It is the one form of human conflict that divides human beings as human beings.  That which the racist glorifies in himself […]

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