Bring me pirates, bushwhacked, vagabonds, rapists . . . . and Methodists!”
Not Methodists!
Yes, Methodists.
- gasp -
Posted on 04/03/2022 5:35:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two and a half years ago, Episcopal Bishop of New York Andrew M.L. Dietsche reminded a group of clergy of the ugly history of their diocese.
Not only was slavery deeply embedded in the life and economy of colonial New York, but Episcopal churches across the state often participated in it. Church founders, churchgoers and even churches themselves had enslaved people.
“The Diocese of New York played a significant, and genuinely evil, part in American slavery,” Dietsche said during his November 2019 address. “We must make, where we can, repair.”
After his speech at the diocese’s annual convention, the clergy unanimously voted to set aside $1.1 million of the diocese’s endowment for a reparations fund, marking the beginning of what the diocese referred to as “The Year of Reparation.”
Other predominantly white denominations, including the Presbyterian Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church, also passed resolutions (in 2004 and 2019, respectively) to study the denominations’ role in slavery and have begun the process of determining how to make reparations.
Together with the United Church of Christ and the National Council of Churches — as well as Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference — Black leadership in these denominations have formed a faith-based coalition to lobby for HR 40, federal legislation that would create a commission to study how the United States could make reparations for slavery and its aftermath.
These efforts are thought to constitute the most sustained church activism since Black churches were on the front lines of the civil rights movement.
“Our faith requires us to do something,” the Rev. Sekinah Hamlin, minister for economic justice at the United Church of Christ, said. “This is what God calls us to do.”
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Then go to Africa and the Middle East and preach to them to stop it.
Here we go....
there. fixed it.
So much easier to address the sins of the past rather than the homosexual sins in the current church eh?
hurry ... send more busses to the border to make amends ... the soccer moms in your congregation will be so proud ...
The Left will not be satisfied until all whites (except a chosen few) will be enslaved. These commie clergy have conveniently forgotten that “vengeance is mine “ sayeth the Lord.
Interesting how the Marxists use language. Imagine playing a bit with the title of this article. Here, I’ll go first:
How about “SOME Churches Played an active role . . .?”
Your “DEMOCRATS Played and Active Roll” is also a winning move.
Tare’s Opening salvo against Christians.
Monday @12 noon FJB will declare the US an Islamic Republic.
Only infidels will be enslaved.
Isn’t there a story about the “wheat and the chaff” somewhere in a book I read?
Black ass kissing taken to a new level by NBC
Comcast is an American Domestic Enemy
Groveling at the feet of negroes is punk behavior.
White, turn the other cheek, guilt is going to sink the churches. That’s over.
Churches were the primary aegis of emancipation. Without the efforts of the churches slavery would certainly have persisted into the 20th century.
More virtue signalling BS.
Yep, the most pro-slavery entity that still survives is the Democratic Party.
The very first act of reparations has to be dissolving the all branches of the party and transferring all assets to descendants of slaves.
Only after that could we begin to talk about other entities with past responsibility.
The Congregational and Baptist churches in early America were 100% abolitionist.
Main line protestant churches need to be sunk into oblivion. They long ago departed from their Biblical foundation.
Apologizing for someone else’s misdeeds with another someone else’s money has to be the ultimate in phony virtue signaling - but I’m sure it makes them feel special.
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