Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win
The Anti-Semitic chants at the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. expose a dirty secret about the American church. It has been the main perpetrator of racism. It’s a shameful thread that shows up as essential in the teachings of many church leaders through history. The thread runs even to the church’s early years.
In the first millennium of the Christian era, leaders in the European Christian (Catholic) hierarchy solidified as doctrine ideas that all Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. They believed the scattering of the Jewish people was punishment both for past transgressions and for continued failure to abandon their faith and accept Christianity.
In the 10th and 11th centuries, these doctrines about Jews were hardened and unified in part because of their threat to the church hierarchy from the impending split between Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy.
Luther spewed anti-Semitic theology. He suggested setting fire to synagogues or school in his work On the Jews and Their Lies. He suggested that Jewish houses “be razed and destroyed,” and Jewish “prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, [should] be taken from them.” In addition, “their rabbis [should] be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.”
White supremacy has been a staple in much of the American and European Church. This marriage of racism to the gospel is proudly displayed on a mantle when people say America was founded on Christian principles. The so-called return to Christian values means a return to a time when white supremacy was uncontested philosophy and policy.
It wasn’t too long ago when good “law abiding” Christian mothers would picnic with their children to see a black man tarred and hung. Fathers used the occasion as a lesson to their sons about justice and the “biblical” doctrine of race while police would sit on their cars, sirens and radio off. Racism was the norm. The white supremacists chant of “we will not be replaced” is correct in this sense that white supremacy was the god of the land.
Christian faith in America has been interpreted in a way that upholds the tenets of white supremacy.
https://sojo.net/articles/confronting-church-s-anti-semitic-roots
In the first millennium of the Christian era, leaders in the European Christian (Catholic) hierarchy solidified as doctrine ideas that all Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Christ. They believed the scattering of the Jewish people was punishment both for past transgressions and for continued failure to abandon their faith and accept Christianity.
In the 10th and 11th centuries, these doctrines about Jews were hardened and unified in part because of their threat to the church hierarchy from the impending split between Roman Catholicism and Greek Orthodoxy.
Luther spewed anti-Semitic theology. He suggested setting fire to synagogues or school in his work On the Jews and Their Lies. He suggested that Jewish houses “be razed and destroyed,” and Jewish “prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing, and blasphemy are taught, [should] be taken from them.” In addition, “their rabbis [should] be forbidden to teach on pain of loss of life and limb.”
White supremacy has been a staple in much of the American and European Church. This marriage of racism to the gospel is proudly displayed on a mantle when people say America was founded on Christian principles. The so-called return to Christian values means a return to a time when white supremacy was uncontested philosophy and policy.
It wasn’t too long ago when good “law abiding” Christian mothers would picnic with their children to see a black man tarred and hung. Fathers used the occasion as a lesson to their sons about justice and the “biblical” doctrine of race while police would sit on their cars, sirens and radio off. Racism was the norm. The white supremacists chant of “we will not be replaced” is correct in this sense that white supremacy was the god of the land.
Christian faith in America has been interpreted in a way that upholds the tenets of white supremacy.
https://sojo.net/articles/confronting-church-s-anti-semitic-roots