Comments on: Time to Start Profiling White Christians*

By: Meredith

Meredith — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:59:49 +0000

You don’t really have to be that careful not to conflate Christianity. They do a fine job of it all on their own.
Listen, I’m really glad that /your/ values include respect, dignity, not enslaving people, and not being a homophobic bigot. But these values are not inherently Christian. In fact, they go directly against scripture.
As a young woman raised in a fundamental Christian household, I was taught that the Bible is the inerrant, unchanging inspired Word of the Lord. I wish most Christians didn’t believe this. If Christians were allowed to reject outdated and cruel practices espoused in their scriptures, I think there would be a lot more kindness and tolerance to go around.

By: Wolf-Alice

Wolf-Alice — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:35:13 +0000

So she should “appreciate” being beaten by a man she is supposed to trust because perhaps some country on the other side of the world would take away her driver’s license and make her cover her hair?

What? Do you say this to all victims of abuse, or just the ones online?

By: Gail B

Gail B — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 02:19:52 +0000

Steven, great piece. Proud to have you in “the burg”.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:34:43 +0000

One thing that you forget is that Christians, White Christians ENDED slavery. They got involved in it, shamefully, but then their Christian morals forced the slave trade from Africa to cease to exist. The Spanish eventually set up colonies specifically to stop it.

Considering that it was going on for possibly thousands of years before that…

You’d think they’d be saying ‘Thank you’.

to quote someone who would never be president if White Christians did not end slavery.

A little gratitude might be in order. If White Christians never got involved in slavery it never would have ended. Slavery was just outlawed (last 50 years) in many African nations, although weakly. Arabs still keep slaves. There are still shamefully blacks that sell their brothers into slavery to other blacks and to arabs.

Thank God for White Christians!

By: Jama Croghan

Jama Croghan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:25:51 +0000

Timothy McVeigh was a insane person that has received way more attention than he ever should have other than as an example of someone who was criminally insane.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 06:36:55 +0000

Hey, they did it, didn’t they?
A group of white Christians calling themselves Hutaree were investigated, arrested and will be prosecuted–as terrorists.

By: Jenny R.

Jenny R. — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:35:14 +0000

Steven-
First of all as a former High School classmate of yours let me say congratulations to you for all of your accomplishments. Second, as a Christian who is white I do not take offense to your writings. As a Christian, I am saddened to see the murders, beatings and bombings by Americans against each other. With this being said, these “Christians” are not of Christ. This is not what Jesus Christ stands for. Christ is Love! Just because someone claims to be a “Christian” or attends a church, doesn’t mean they follow Christ. Just as going into a Burger King, doesn’t make you a Whopper! Please know that true believers in Jesus Christ want to spread Love, Peace and Joy to everyone! As a mother I want my children to grow up without fear and to have the innocence of childhood just as we did. I understand that not everyone has the same beliefs as myself, but I just wanted you to know that there are Christians in this beautiful country and around the world who want to spread the Love of Christ!

By: Max

Max — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:33:39 +0000

Oh, surely we’re not that bad.
Didn’t we create the B Minor Mass…and the Hostess Twinkie?

By: chinarose

chinarose — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:39:10 +0000

Thanks for the post. You raise an extremely important point!

The “religious right”, most fundamentalists, and most cultural “Christians” are closer to Anti-Christ than to Jesus, the Messiah, the Prince of Peace. Perhaps they’ve never even read the Gospels.

By: chinarose

chinarose — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:36:40 +0000

Native American scholar Jack D. Forbes knows something of the destructiveness, diseased conscience and danger of “white Christians” and the threat they pose to all indigenous people, to all nature and to the future of civilization He’s written a book on the subject: “Columbus and Other Cannibals”

H.L. Mencken recognized the depravity of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants [particularly males] and wrote a stunning essay to validate his assertion that they were the lowest, scummiest ethnic group on the planet. And he wasn’t being PC about it either.

Lastly, take a look at Avatar. The Na’vi would understand.

Or stick to facts There are over 12 million ghosts — people killed in US imperialist wars. Few of them were pale.