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The Gospel and Racism

Christian and Racist: those two words should never appear juxtaposed in a sentence without some form of the word not being involved.  For the Biblical Christian racism is an evil to be expunged from the face of the Earth and those who would simultaneously espouse racist views and Christianity clearly don't understand the latter.  Unfortunately, Christianity has always had those proponents who ignore or twist its teachings to promote hate.  These jokers in Charlottesville , at least any who would claim Christianity, are a perfect example.  Far from being consistent Christians, they are fanatics whose religion pays homage to their political and anthropological ideology instead of informing it. The Gospel has no room for racism.  The New Testament is full of language that reflects the universality of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, partly because of the insular views of the Jewish people.  The Jews, through years of persecution and exile, had developed ...