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A Quiet Exodus: Why Black Worshipers Are Leaving White Evangelical Churches
NY Times ^ | 3/9/18

Posted on 03/10/2018 12:55:25 PM PST by Altura Ct.

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1 posted on 03/10/2018 12:55:25 PM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

I’ve known blacks who were deeply Christian. Excellent people.

But most black Christians who I have known are just doing race hustling in a different way. Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright is hardly unique. If that’s the sort of thing you hope to find in church, then a white church just won’t do.


2 posted on 03/10/2018 12:59:35 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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To: Altura Ct.

I’m so glad the NY Times is concerned about Christians, what about all the White people who felt uncomfortable going to Rev. Farrakhan’s church.

How many white people still attend Rev. Jesse Jackson’s church? Does Rev Al Sharpton minister to White people at his church?


3 posted on 03/10/2018 1:04:17 PM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Altura Ct.

Looks like black nationalism is on a roll. The Obama strateragy of dividing America into racial camps has begun.
How do we combat that?

whenever anyone is involved in violence, roll them up, try them and jail them.

Its simple.


4 posted on 03/10/2018 1:04:23 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Cowboy Bob

That should be Wright...not Farrakhan...


5 posted on 03/10/2018 1:05:12 PM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Altura Ct.

Its raaacism!

Liberals blame every shortcoming of evangelical Christianity on racism or being conservative.

Why am I not surprised. This is after all, the NYT.


6 posted on 03/10/2018 1:05:32 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever) I)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Do Jackson and Sharpton have churches? Serious questions have arisen, as to whether either of these guys ever have been pastors of any specific church.


7 posted on 03/10/2018 1:08:27 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Candor7

Good grief!! Obama has succeeded in dividing us by groups. In God’s eyes there is no black or white—there is one race and that is the human race.


8 posted on 03/10/2018 1:08:42 PM PST by Wm F Buckley Republican
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To: ClearCase_guy

——But most black Christians who I have known are just doing race hustling——

The task was assigned by the appropriate comittee of the NAACP


9 posted on 03/10/2018 1:08:44 PM PST by Thibodeaux (The FISA judge is corrupt)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

LOL...I have wondered that for long time. Their political beliefs are so contrary to mine...and I always thought a godly man would lean toward Bible Scripture, as a guide.


10 posted on 03/10/2018 1:10:02 PM PST by Ambrosia (Southern born... NC, and have lived in PA, NY,WV,SC, NM, FL, NC....Love USA!)
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To: Altura Ct.

After reading the story today about the NY Times editor that has an Obama doll in her purse, nothing surprises me what stories these clowns come up with.


11 posted on 03/10/2018 1:12:56 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: Dilbert San Diego

To my knowledge, they don’t have churches. (I was being a little cynical). To my knowledge they are self-proclaimed ministers.


12 posted on 03/10/2018 1:12:59 PM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Altura Ct.
Notice the article mentions nothing about Black on Black shooting or disrespect to the American Flag and Anthem.

"...white pastors fail to address police shootings of African-Americans."

"...open hostility to N.F.L. players protesting police brutality..."

13 posted on 03/10/2018 1:15:00 PM PST by mosaicwolf
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To: Thibodeaux

Black Christians of all people should know there is no race or skin color in the afterlife.

And God judges people not by their appearance or station in life but by their deeds.

And if race/color is the yardstick by which you relate to God, you have a shallow relationship both with the Holy scriptures and with Him.

True spirituality means putting the things of this world in their place and preparing for eternity.

All of us are here only a short time.


14 posted on 03/10/2018 1:18:32 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever) I)
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To: goldstategop

You miss the point entirely

God has nothing to do with it. It is socio-political activism


15 posted on 03/10/2018 1:21:16 PM PST by Thibodeaux (The FISA judge is corrupt)
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To: mosaicwolf

Its the values, stupid. Someone who doesn’t fear God doesn’t get my respect.

I don’t care where he comes from; I will not sit in the congregation of wicked or defend those whose feet make haste to shed blood.

Period.


16 posted on 03/10/2018 1:21:19 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever) I)
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To: Thibodeaux

I get the point.

But its also who you serve: God or Man? You cannot serve both.


17 posted on 03/10/2018 1:22:51 PM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever) I)
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To: Altura Ct.

If people are leaving churches that preach the truth, covering all aspects of life in the 21st century, in the light of the everlasting, timeless Word of God — it’s because they can’t handle the truth.

Perhaps they’d rather go where they can hear someone who is pouring gasoline on the flames of race-rustling hate.


18 posted on 03/10/2018 1:24:30 PM PST by Migraine ((A smartass who is right can be downright funny. A smartass who is wrong is just a smartass.))
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To: ClearCase_guy
But most black Christians who I have known are just doing race hustling in a different way.

Most? Can that really be the case?

I suspect it's more a matter of little things that Black people expect to hear and little things that White people expect to hear than about "race hustling" on a massive scale -- more to do with differences of style and focus than of anything pernicious.

If you went to a church where every week you heard about the problems of "our Black youth" it might not appeal to you and you might get tired of it after a while. Imagine that you were concerned about that and heard nothing about it every week ...

19 posted on 03/10/2018 1:26:54 PM PST by x
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To: ClearCase_guy; Altura Ct.

It’s really simple. People don’t want to mix.

Diversity + Proximity = Violence.


20 posted on 03/10/2018 1:28:09 PM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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