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White Supremacy Goes Back To “Early Church”: Oxford Professor <\/span><\/p>\n

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By Micaiah Bilger of <\/a>The College Fix<\/em><\/p>\n

White supremacy remains so prevalent in Christianity today because it took root in the early church<\/strong>, theologian Anthony Reddie told a Baylor University conference this month.<\/p>\n

Reddie, a professor of black theology at Oxford University in England, said in his Feb. 15 speech that white supremacy has \u201cdistorted\u201d Christianity since the time of Jesus Christ, according<\/a> to Baptist News Global<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The conference<\/a>, hosted by Baylor\u2019s Truett Seminary, focused on racism in the world church.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most egregious thing that we have to wrestle with is the normalization of white supremacy,\u201d <\/strong>Reddie said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Although Christianity \u201cwas created as a movement for those who are marginalized and oppressed,\u201d he said white leaders quickly began using the religion as a weapon to seize land and oppress other cultures.<\/p>\n

Reddie traced the distortion back to the early Christians who blamed the Jews for killing Jesus, instead of Roman leader Pontius Pilate, according to the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cPilate represents white supremacy, and white supremacy now becomes normalized and effectively becomes the religion of Jesus, the religion of God,\u201d the professor said.<\/p>\n

As time went on, more and more people began to believe Jesus was a white European, like them, Reddie said.<\/p>\n

Baptist News Global<\/em> reports:<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why few white Christians flinched at the claim that Jesus called European and American Christians to travel the globe to oppress brown- and Black-skinned people, he said, explaining that a Christianity suffused with white supremacy enabled plantation owners in the American South to see no contradiction between their faith and owning other human beings. \u201cThey saw people who are other as inferior and that it was OK to kill or enslave them for their own good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those attitudes clearly continue to exist and in the U.S. are evident in the rise of Trumpism, the British scholar said.<\/p>\n

Because white supremacy has been connected with Christianity for so long, he said it has \u201cdistorted the very fabric of what we call Christianity and the nature of church.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Baylor conference is part of a \u201cthree-year sequences of programs on confronting racism in the white church and seeking God\u2019s justice,\u201d according to the event website<\/a>. More than a dozen pastors, theologians, and Christian leaders participated. Baylor is a private, Protestant Christian university in Texas.<\/p>\n

Last year, a Catholic university professor also linked<\/a> white supremacy with the early Christian church in a new book, \u201cChristian Supremacy.\u201d The author, Fordham University Professor Magda Teter, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency<\/em> that white supremacists\u2019 ideology \u201cis rooted in Christian ideas of social and religious hierarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 02\/28\/2024 – 03:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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