C Greg Carroll

Evangelical Christians today have become full fledged participants in the 1619 Project, the reorganization of society on the basis of identity and "equity.” All facts are siloed and filtered through a lens which attempts to correct injustices, real or perceived, which date back to the alleged complicity of Christianity in the arrival of slaves.

But who would have thought that Russell Moore, editor of the flagship Christian organ, Christianity Today, birthed by Billy Graham and Carl F. H. Henry, would lend his name to a Rob Reiner backed project to destroy wonderful Christian organizations? The movie, "God and Country,” in a screenshot below, expressly labels CBN and the Family Research Council "white Christian nationalists.”

"When do we consider how truth-telling in a Rob Reiner film might affect our neighbors or family or the people we sit next to in the pew every Sunday,” said religious historian John Fea in a column for Religion News Service.

Tim replies:

"white Christian nationalists.” We are ordered to be good citizens and to support the laws of our country and to love our country. The "white" part is just their way of accusing us of racism, the one unforgivable sin to the Left. But in the end "christian nationalism" is not just accepted but approved by God. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's! If Russell Moore doesn't like that he needs to resign from his post and edit some Internationalist rag.

Greg responds:

I want to comment more on this because this morning’s Virginian Pilot has a local story on the 1619 slave arrival in Hampton Roads. Historians should mark the event but, "never wanting a serious crisis to go to waist,” the left’s new shiny object (which every Virginian discovered in 4th grade) is manipulated to reorganize society with peculiar notions of identity and "equity.” Moore is all in, even recently attributing Jackson’s terrible municipal water to racism. (Jackson’s water was just as terrible 45 years ago when the city was majority white. I know I lived there and we couldn’t drink the water.)

Tim replies:

Oh good grief!They just don't let up!

I bet they don't know that slavery only existed in American because a black man went to court to force his servant into perpetual slavery. Anthony Johnson, a free planter in Virginia, sued in colonial court to prevent his indentured servant, a man named John Casor, from being freed, arguing Casor was not his servant but his property. That made Johnson the first slaveholder in north America. He was a black man. Funny how these people simply brush that under the rug.

And records show that blacks were brought here first as indentured servants. But they were often taken unwillingly to fill a quota (sold by African warlords) and so were poor workers, hence they got longer and longer periods of indenture until those became "in perpetuity". Slavery was driven by economics, not racism. And it was hardly unique; it existed in the Caribbean, in South America, etc. Brazil had a much larger percentage of the population in slavery than the U.S. So did Haiti, and Jamaica. And slavery was ubiquitous in Africa, which is why these people were sold in the first place; usually they lost a war.

That "bad water because of racism" thing is stupid beyond words.

BTW I saw that sort of thing when Ferguson Mo. exploded; they claimed it was "majority black"and "ghetto" when in fact Ferguson had been majority white until about a year or two before it erupted. It became black because the city of Kinloch was bought out by the airport and Ferguson was next door so all the blacks moved there at once. Ferguson was actually a kind of college town with the University of Missouri St. Louis just down the street. Gentrified, with a brewery, nice restaurants, a wine garden, and wonderful stately Victorian homes. It was not an "impoverished hellhole" as it has been portrayed by the media. But they just forced it into their template as they always do.

I am sure that's what these foolish Evangelicas who believe this nonsense are doing; believing the lies told by the media.

BTW I wrote this about the adoption of the green goddess by Evangelicals some time back. It fits with this rising adoption of the 1619 Project as well. 1619 has been soundly debunked by historians since it was first dreamed up, I might add.

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