Dividing the Racist Church

THERE ARE THOUSANDS, of religions in the world, arguably billions, since,as Goethe said: "everyone invents his own religion". Thousands more are extinct, the ultimate fate of all religions. There are hundreds of varieties of the christian religion, inviting the question: why? Isn't there just one God, and one  Christ? Do all Christians assume that their denomination has exclusive possession of the truth? If they do, how do they manage to deceive themselves that God is a Methodist, or a baptist, or whatever, other than by being delusional, mentally ill? Goethe also said: "We are never deceived, we only deceive ourselves". In 1845 the american Baptist church split into two factions, north and south, and the southern Baptist was born, adding one more to the long list of separated Christian factions. Every other mainstream christian denomination in America did the same; Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, among many others. The divisive issue was slavery, which the christian religion, in the bible, clearly condones. All antebellum plantation slave owners defended slavery, with good reason, based on its acceptance in scripture. religion comes in handy, economically. The bible mentions slavery many times, never condemns,it, and provides advice on how slavers should treat their masters. The Christian church in America has a nearly unbroken record of and history of racial segregation and white supremacy, which continues today.Today, there exists a white Baptist church, and a black one.All this is detailed in a new book by Robert P. Jones: "White Too Long" The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity"...Among white Americans, Christians are far more likely to deny the very existence of racism in modern American culture, society as well as law enforcement, than non religious whites, and are far less likely than white atheists to acknowledge the confederate flag as a symbol of racism and black oppression. they tend to see it as simply expressing pride in southern heritage, or whatever. this is indisputable, having been confirmed by verified research.After more than a hundred fifty years of supporting white supremacy, the various Christian denominations apologized for it, the southern Baptists in 1995. Ironically yet predictably, white supremacy persists today, deeply rooted in American Christianity.Witness their support of Trump. As we like to say, talk's cheap.