Black Christian 'Racialism' Challenges Faith in America

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Thu Aug 07, 2008 9:41 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 3

The author of this article only seeks to impress white people. I am the grandson of two Christian ministers yet there are churches in the south I cannot visit because of the color of my skin. Most churches in South Africa fought to maintain apartheid way after the secular white community had chosen to abandon it. Why not talk about the white images of Jesus that black people are forced to sing praises to? Why do most Africans consider names like Dennis and Hamilton Christian names? Generational sin was used to justify slavery, but what about the grandchildren of slave owners who whipped people into submission in the name of the very white God named Jesus? Who is making any effort to reach out to the millions of Africans who converted to Islam because they were tired of the racism of the Church and the images of Jesus that they are selling? Being a Christian never helped a single black person when they were facing the hatred of Christian societies. I am not the son of Ham and I swear that Christianity has no future in Africa. One day our children will ask us why we infected them with low self-esteem.