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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sirajstc" data-source="post: 10326184" data-attributes="member: 91140">Racism and Slavery in the Bible                                 Omar Dunlap In studying various topics about <a href="http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/christianity/" target="_blank">Christianity</a> and <a href="http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/islam/" target="_blank">Islam</a>  over the years I will never forget an article I came across on the  topic of racism.  It was called: “Children of a White God” and the  author was Matthew C. Ogilvie. The very first sentence in his essay was  particularly striking. He writes:It is common knowledge that Islamic extremism has been  associated with numerous terrorist attacks around the world. It remains,  though, that racist Christian theologies have also animated violent  movements. One key example concerns the Oklahoma City bombing. Bomber  Timothy McVeigh has been connected to white supremacist movements such  as White Aryan Resistance and the Christian Identity Movement, both of  which promote racist theology. Well, this was news to me at the time.  I remembered that the  majority of slavery in the United States had been justified by  Christians in the past, but certainly, I thought, this was over. I  thought this was just the ignorance of poorly educated Christians of  old. But as I read the words in this mans essay, I began to realize that  indeed, there were several Christian sects who taught racist theologies  to this day, and such theologies resulted in countless acts of  terrorism in the world. As seen above, there were two listed Christian groups who taught  racism:  the White Aryan Resistance and the Christian Identity Movement.  The Christian Identity movement is of particular concern.  Christian  Identity is a collection of churches which teach racist theologies.   According to Wikipedia, there are roughly 350,000 members of the  Christian Separatist movements. Wikipedia also states:A relatively new tenet gaining popularity among some  radical Christian Identity believers justifies the use of violence if it  is perpetrated in order to punish violators of God’s law, as found in  the <a href="http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/bible/" target="_blank">Bible</a>  and interpreted by Christian Identity ministers and adherents. This  includes killing interracial couples, abortionists, prostitutes, and  homosexuals. There is a 350,000 member-strong Church that believes killing  interracial couples in the name of God in order to punish “violators of  God’s law” is a principal doctrine.  But the Muslim need not look for  cluster bombing in America.  No, no, no.  There is no need to even  wonder if any Christians are being held for years in prison without  charge for “security reasons”.  There is no call by the U.S. government  to wiretap churches.  Well, all these things are being perpetrated upon  Muslims and in Muslim lands, no such call has been made in America for  the Christians. With such a title as the “war on terror” one wonders why  there is no “war on Christian terror” but only a “war on Muslim  terror”.  One wonders why the media isn?t bombarding homes with phrases  like ?Christian terrorists? but everyone has heard the term “Muslim  terrorists”.  A 350,000 member strong terrorist Christian organization  running in America, right here at home, and no one bats an eye. Maybe  it?s just me, but when I hear that THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND  PEOPLE SEE IT AS THEIR GOD GIVEN DUTY TO KILL BLACK PEOPLE and these  same people MIGHT LIVE NEXT DOOR?I tend to get a little jittery.  This  sends shivers up and down my spine.  But maybe none of the non-racist  Christians, and maybe none of the U.S. Government officials see these  350,000 people as a credible threat?because, let?s be honest?they don?t  have weapons of mass destruction like Saddam, right? Wrong. <a href="http://www.bismikaallahuma.org/wp-content/upload/racism_and_slavery.pdf" target="_blank">Download the article</a> [.pdf format, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader]</blockquote>

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