I have a question: if a group decides to make an apology for collective sins made before those making the apology were ever born does that same group get to take credit for the good things the group did prior to its current members being born?
Personally speaking it makes about as much sense to me for anyone living nowadays to apologize for U.S. slavery as it does for anyone living nowadays to take credit for the abolition of slavery.
Well, let me point out that I doubt that the majority of ANY religious organization in the United States today is bigoted or racist. However, I am sick and tired of the LDS Church being labeled as racist on these forums weekly for alleged racist incidents in the past. So I thought I would give the protestants a dose of reality. The reality is that the Southern Baptist Convention came into being to defend slavery.
When I was a member, I saw a pastor get fired because he invited a black person to attend services.