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Politics : The Clown-Free Bible Study Zone

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From: S. maltophilia6/6/2025 1:06:41 PM
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.....But why bring Jesus into it?

America has always been a country with lots of Christian citizens, but it has not always behaved like a Christian country, and for reasons that resonate again today. An old error is new. Too many Christians are transforming Christianity into a vertical faith, one that focuses on your personal relationship with God at the expense of the horizontal relationship you have with your neighbors.

To understand what I mean, let’s turn to a much darker time in American history, when Christianity and slavery existed side-by-side in the American South. In 1970, Wendell Berry published “ The Hidden Wound,” a book-length essay about the profound damage that racism had inflicted on us all.

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Reflecting on the Christianity of the slave-owning South, Berry wrote this passage, which is worth quoting at some length:

First, consider the moral predicament of the master who sat in...

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