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In reply to the discussion: Ed Schultz EXPOSES Cause Of Racism In The South [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)you mentioned abortion, and yes, many churches are very strongly opposed to abortion. You mentioned women in the workplace, and I find that kinda surprising. Because at the (Southern) Baptist church I have been attending for the last year or so, many, if not most of the women who also attend there - are in the workplace.
And the business about race hate doesn't ring true to me either. Certainly not in the churches I attend. For one thing, of the twenty or so people who attend the evening services, there is at least one black guy. The same is true in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches that I have also attended (sparsely). They are maybe 95% white, but not 100%. The Methodist church for a time had a pastor who was Phillipino.
Of course, Methodist churches are more liberal denominations. But I quickly find at least three Methodist churches in Atlanta, and 7 of them in Columbia, South Carolina. Tell me the Methodist churches are preaching race hatred - I don't believe it for a second. Even if the congregations wanted them to, Methodists don't get to choose their own pastors - the Bishop does it.
Although, sadly, I know the history of the Methodist church. At least they told me at the AME church that that branch was started because the white Methodists were not welcoming to the Black methodists - did not want to sit with them.
This city where I live is about 85% white, and even here the "white" churches are not pure white. Nor are they isolated. I have attended the Thanksgiving dinner done by the Lutherans, and talked to one of the black men working as a volunteer. Here I was thinking that the Lutherans were more integrated than the Methodists, but it turned out he was from a "black" church. But the two (or more) churches were cooperating to put together this Thanksgiving dinner. So I don't believe they are preaching any kind of racial hatred in the Lutheran church either.
At least not in this town, which admittedly is not that far south.