Why Did So Many Christians Support Slavery?

[heaven05]

37. I was a member

of the SB religion. When I went, black people were encouraged to sit among each other. They did. This was the 80's. I had a white girlfriend and we sat in any section we pleased. One night after the Wednesday night service preacher asked us into his office. He looked at both of us and then said a lot of the white parishoners were disturbed by our relationship and could we at least sit apart during our visit to his church. I assume I was to go the black christian section and her wherever. It never really dawned on me that black parishoners were segregated because I sat where I wanted to and told him I did not see what difference it made where I sat if I believed in the same triune god he did and if people were disturbed by our interracial relationship, that was their problem. He got angry and told me, 2inches from my face that this was his church and I had to do what he said if I was to remain a part of his church. Believe he came close to getting fucked up that night, and me to jail, but my friend pulled me out of the office and after that night, I never went back. He was right it was his church and the black people that let him and parishoners segregate and disrespect them, I don't to this day understand their reasoning for letting this Southern Baptist bastard disrespect them. But that was their problem. I NEVER let anyone disrespect me.

So maybe not everyone of them were racist, maybe only 99%. One white couple was nice to us, but they excused his behavior as that's the way it was. He was preach and he was not wrong. Black Southern Baptists are seen as christians but different christians. Black christians had the mark of Cain on them, so they were fucked from birth. I studied a long time after my friend and I quit that church because of their disrespect. So your sarcasm IS NOTED and I laugh at answers like yours and YES, I say it is still one of the most hateful and racist denominations in ameriKKKa.. This incident struck deep into my heart and I really studied racism in ameriKKKan religion for the next 20 years and yes white Southern Baptists are some of the most racist, in theology and action. You have a good one