America’s National Sin
Racism!
As long as you have these facts about our nation, God will continue to raise the Jeremiah Wrights, the James Cones, and other prophetic voices of our times.
Read this article here and get mad, get upset, and strive to raise the next generation on a different path, a path that will lift this country from the threat of God’s judgment.
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Hey,
Just hollerin to let you know that I’ve enjoyed the last several posts you’ve written. Thank you for always keeping it real and speaking truth!
Dana
Dana - September 27, 2008 at 1:39 am
Thanks and I apologize for keeping you hanging on some of my posts, namely the one on Piper and Christians joining the military. I have been swamped with changes in my life (school, work, etc). Thanks for checking out my blog.
cdero - October 6, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I’d disagree. The sin of America is unbelief. All these liberals walking around denying creation, the existence of God and absolute truth are more prevalent than racists and racism.
Hmmmm - October 15, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Liberals on not the only ones who deny the existence of God, many conservatives do to. In any case, unbelief pails in comparison to the injustice of racism. In fact, many of the racism in America, past and present, have been practiced and defended by Christians from slavery, the Jim Crow south to the Calvinists in South Africa who created Apartheid. You can disagree but from my vantage point, racism is America’s national sin as well as it’s original sin.
cdero - October 15, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Unbelief pales in comparison to racism? Really? And what’s your beef with Calvinists? It’s all through your blog.
Wouldn’t you agree that all sin, whether racism, pedophilia or whatever, are all because of unbelief, i.e. no radical transformation of life?
Hmmmm - October 16, 2008 at 10:24 am
No I would not say that. Many people who believe in God commit sinful acts. Shoot, even demons have belief. In any case, “unbelief” is too much of an abstract of a word to say that unbelief is America’s national sin. However, a historical analysis of America as well as a present analysis would clearly place racism as America’s original sins.
cdero - October 16, 2008 at 3:58 pm
How does this argument stand now that many whites had to vote in order for Obama to become president? Is racism still America’s “greatest” sin?
Hmmmm - November 12, 2008 at 7:30 am
LoL..as sure as 1865 did not mean the abolishment of racism nor slavery, Obama becoming president-elect because people actually voted based on his leadership qualities, does not erase America’s original sin of racism. It is going to take more Obama experiences than the one we saw on November 8th, 2008.
Racism is not just an individual practice. It is also institutional. Do I have hope for America? Yes I do. Do I think we have made progress? Absolutely! However, given the fingerprint of racism on so many institutions in America, we still have long ways to go.
cdero - November 12, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Also, Obama becoming president elect is not the first historical moment that Blacks have experienced in terms of their fight against systemic racism. There has been many of them. One historical moment was 1865, another historical moment was 1954, yet another historical moment was the year 1965 (the Voting Rights Act) despite the fact of the 15th amendment, and much much more. November 8, 2008 is but another monumental moment. Yet, after these monumental moments we still have slavery (a newer more powerful one which targets the poor regardless of color), segregation, and many more evidences of institutional racism.
cdero - November 12, 2008 at 8:50 pm
With the abortion rates being disproportionately high in Black and Hispanic communities, would you agree that abortion is racism/genocidal?
Hmmmm - November 13, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Abortion is a choice that people make, whether Black, Latino, or White, how then is abortion racism?
cdero - November 13, 2008 at 9:10 pm