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To: brwnsuga
I am a black woman married to a white man for the last 20 years. I am sorry, but could not join a “church” that had such racist origins.

I'm not trying to be a jerk but seriously, what religion doesn't have racist origins? I mean, even a tribe 5,000 years ago probably were racist against other tribes or whatever.

8 posted on 03/20/2009 1:17:09 PM PDT by exist
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To: exist; brwnsuga
I'm not trying to be a jerk but seriously

You're doing a great job for not even trying.

11 posted on 03/20/2009 1:19:46 PM PDT by colorcountry (A faith without truth is not true faith.)
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To: exist

There’s a difference between tribalism and racism. The ancient Israelites believed their tribe was God’s chosen people. They had no greater antipathy to tribes that looked very different from them than to those that looked almost the same. Even this rather mild tribalism was utterly rejected by the New Testament, and BTW, by the Koran.

The idea that man is divided into three to five great “races,” with vast differences between the races (with some being closer to the animals) and great commonality within them, actually dates back only to early modern times and has little or no history prior to that.


12 posted on 03/20/2009 1:22:27 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: exist

Christianity in and of itself does not have racist origins. There are plenty of churches and denominations or non-denominational churches to choose from.


53 posted on 03/21/2009 8:43:02 AM PDT by brwnsuga (Proud, Black, Sexy Conservative!!! I am no LEMMING!)
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