You don’t? Your relentless cherry picking throws this denial into disrepute. You’re a Johnny One-Note. You have one arrow in your quiver: Christians bad! bad! bad! On rare occasion you vary the storyline from ‘Christian’ to ‘religions’ in a bid to acquire a little credibility, so you must be aware, however dimly, that your behavior gives away your game. But, your brief departures from that One-Note do you no good, because you can’t escape your obsessive-compulsive behavior being noticed by everyone on this thread.
”I merely point out that claiming one nation or one religion has a monopoly on virtue and moral purity is nonsence. [sic]”
I don’t know who it is that claims that. Yet, you feel compelled to falsely attribute such a stance to me in order to promote your argument. Although you claim (a reasonable claim) that no religion or nation can declare a monopoly on virtue or moral purity, yet your storyline solo seems to propose that religion (especially Christianity in America) has a monopoly on evil and moral impurity. So, the one is possible, but the other is not? Your argument is so transparent that a five-year-old could see through it, yet you continue to pursue your storyline with an intensity that could bend light.
”I am aware that the United States is way ahead of average in guaranteeing human rights, and is a leader in history . . .”
. . . buuuuut . . .
”. . . but that leadership has little to do with religion.”
Not my experience. But it’s become obvious by now that over our lifetimes our experiences have varied markedly, one from the other.
”White churches in the South did not lead the march.”
There were no other white churches in America save those in the south? Why do you qualify your last statement, confining it to white churches in the South, when you lead off with the very sweeping statement that religion has little to do with American leadership?
Because those are the ones I know first hand, and they are the ones that shouted racism from the pulpit. As for Northern churches, well it's always easy to see the mote in other people's eyes.
Now that Jim Crow is gone for the law, Northern cities seem (to me) to have a bigger race problem than Southern cities.