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Are Christian teachings radicalizing your friends, neighbors, and children? Do people go to church to hear the teachings of Christ, or are they indoctrinated with hate?
If you go to a church, how do you feel about people who go to other churches? Do you love them? Do you love immigrants? Do you love the LGBTQ+ community? Do you love Democrats?
Or do you love guns?
It’s long past time that the United States of America addressed its white supremacy problem. If you discuss racism, many Americans will instinctively snort at you and turn away. They’ve been trained to disregard the various hate ideologies that have become fused with our cultural identity.
The unfortunate consequence is that we don’t discuss white supremacy. We don’t teach our children how to avoid the evils of that ideology. Instead, we bow down to a mountain of cultural norms that are designed to protect this hateful form of thinking.
The sacred nature of religion is used as a lever to plunge the fatal seed of white supremacy into your heart. We’re told that religion is beyond reproach. Religion cannot be questioned. Once the name of god is invoked, you are supposed to swallow all your questions and objections.
Convenient.
The problem with anything that cannot be questioned is that it become subject to corruption. We need transparency as a form of combating corruption. This concept should be self-evident to anyone who has studied the Christian observations on human nature.
Yet, for some reason we offer an exemption to the people who lord those teachings over us.
Christianity suggests that human beings need a higher authority to compel them to do what’s right. They fear that in the absence of that authority, people would cheat and engage in immoral behavior. So, accountability has been the church’s model to prevent this.
But who is responsible for holding the church accountable? Don’t say “God” because we know that God helps those who help themselves.
We demand accountability in every other part of our lives. Our teachers in classrooms are accountable for what they say and teach. Our law enforcement agents are accountable in that they must wear body cameras, and file reports, and testify. Checks and balances were created to hold our government accountable (in theory).
In every other part of our life, transparency is demanded. Honest people have no problem with transparency.
Yet, there are those who insist that they are above the rules that bind the rest of us. So we take them at their word, let them do what they want, and crime endures.
Convenient.
It’s staggering to think that our society could be so naive. All criminal organizations have to do is insist that they are a Christian organization, and we’re all supposed to accept without evidence that their actions are just and moral.
Can we all stop for a moment and agree that’s ridiculous. If you caught somebody breaking into your house, would you let him go if he claimed to be a priest?
In the instances where accountability has been demanded, the facts show that Christian groups are not always as pure as the driven snow. But, it’s a social convention that we don’t talk about boys being raped by priests. For some reason that’s considered impolite to say.
Unfortunately, this contributes to why we don’t have warnings against grooming and white supremacy indoctrination as part of our public schooling. We’re not allowed to teach Black history. We’re not allowed to mention racism.
This is because the dogma of white supremacy largely overlaps with the dogma of Christianity. For example, the idea of an unquestionable authority figure, the idea of obedience, the idea of tribalism. All these things are leveraged in order to radicalize our kids.
“You are one of the chosen people. The lives of other people don’t matter.”
That’s grooming.
They tell us that it’s the worst thing to become a traitor to your beliefs, and that is related to becoming a traitor to your race.
We’ve been tolerant of these ideas until now, but it’s killing us. These radical, right-wing ideas are why frustrated, armed, white men go on murder sprees in schools.
Other countries have guns.
Only the United States has white supremacy. You might think other countries do, but you’re wrong. This is the birthplace of that cruel ideology.
Hey, all I’m doing is asking questions.
This is our essential problem. The nation refuses to recognize the source of all our misery. Because in our willingness to allow people to have their religious beliefs, we create a kind of loophole in our morality which allows white supremacy to flourish.
The most malicious examples use Christianity as camouflage so that they can further develop and proliferate their hateful teachings. This is a defilement of all the best things that are involved with the Christian religion. The way it stands now, in offering this warning many Christians are inclined to say, “Well not all Christians behave that way.”
In this response you can see another example of how our social mechanism functions. We’ve been indoctrinated to deflect and protect this incubator of evil that’s hidden right out in plain view. It allows white supremacy to take root and grow and flourish and adapt and change and become ever more dangerous.
We’re seeing more and more blatant lies that people tell. Many people insist on repeating the false claim that public schools indoctrinate. They don’t. Public schools teach critical thinking.
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But people have been groomed to believe that lie because they’ve been taught to assume that anything that challenges one of their indoctrinated beliefs is representative of unfair hostility. They believe in unquestionable authority, so no amount of experimentation will convince them to entertain any other belief.
They are immune to the power of verifiable, observable facts. They’ve been indoctrinated.
It really is incumbent upon us to address and oppose this form of malicious hate grooming.
We have to push the Overton window in the direction of progress. We must work to build a society where the majority of the population recognizes the danger of indoctrinating the population with false and harmful assumptions.
We must fortify the constitutionally defined need to separate church and state. For all the flaws of the founding fathers, and there are many, they did at least recognize the dangers of religion.
Of course, through the evolution of our nation and the process of corruption, these warnings have been eroded. I think we really need to recognize that white supremacy is a cancer that inhabits the body of Christianity. Even now it could be the case that more of the total mass of that body is white nationalist hate indoctrination than it is the appeals to humanity and diversity and charity that represent the teachings of Christ.
This is a problem. The reality is that we can’t let the malicious part of that body influence our public institutions which are designed to protect our nation. All kids have a right to know their fundamental value and worth as human beings.
If they are not getting that information at home, and if they’re not getting that information at church, our society has a responsibility to ensure they hear it in public schools. We can no longer afford to discount the malice that’s inherent to white supremacy defiled Christianity.
White supremacy defiled Christianity itself seems to perceive other religions as weeds that need to be removed. We see evidence of this purpose in the increasingly hostile language of those that name themselves of this faith group.
It is not an ideology of love and tolerance.
It’s the exact opposite.
Too few people make appeals to humanity or stand up against the injustices that are becoming more and more frequent in our country. If Christians were opposed to white supremacy, we would not have white supremacy in the United States.
Instead, we have a denial that white supremacy exists. This ideology is either deliberately or inadvertently maintained by the Christian cultural majority.
What it comes to is that the rest of us simply have to be more open. We have absolutely every right in the world to demand accountability, particularly when church related groups are found to be guilty of terrible acts such as child rape and child trafficking.
If you look at the actual statistics, you’ll see that’s the case.
Again, we live in a society with a mainstream media and a general public that’s content to falsely blame people that have absolutely nothing to do with these kinds of crimes. They blame the LGBTQ+ community, they blame immigrants, even though no criminal statistics corroborate those beliefs.
The reality is the groups that are most inclined to rape children are members of the Christian right.
This is a verifiable fact.
Our children have a right to know where the true predators can be found. They have a right to know where to go to seek protection and accountability.
We can’t allow ourselves to become passive enablers of the most horrific abuses you can possibly imagine. It’s often said that educated opinions offend, but we have to also recognize that ignorant opinions kill. If we’re going to make process to a better society, we have to override our indoctrinated compulsions to disregard certain transgressions based on the assumption that those transgressions lead to a greater good.
Evidence suggests this is not the case. Transgressions against humanity, in fact, lead to even greater atrocities. It’s long past time that we show some deference and respect to the survivors of terrible abuses and those that did not survive.
It’s time that we had justice. Anyone who is truly a follower of whatever good parts are left of religions that have been corrupted and perverted by nefarious actors should, without hesitation, find agreement with my position.
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