USA Evangelicals Have A Crisis Of Faith: Climate,Race, & Black Jesus!

Jesus is too liberal for majority of Evangelicals who take out the love messaging and keep the hate!

The US government has historically classified people of Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) descent as white, but that is set to change in the 2030 census. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced new federal standards for collecting race and ethnicity data in March 2024, which will include a separate category for MENA individuals for the first time. The category will include subcategories such as Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, and Israeli. So in short the race of Jesus will no longer be considered White by the US Government!

Let's start off with the obvious. From a European perspective pertaining to phenotype They don't look Norhern European white. They're not culturally white. No one is saying Osama Bin Laden (bad example), or Jordanian folks or Iranian folks (who are both quite brown and have large noses and very thick eyebrows) look white. Don't be ridiculous. They are also treated very distinctly from white people and in Europe are clled Black and often discriminated against, in both casual microaggressions and flat out hate crimes.

Middle Eastern and North African people have a much higher risk than white people (and Asian people) at developing lung cancers because they often live in environmentally polluted environments. This statistic is largely invisible because of their white classification. For many Jesus is considered Middle Eastern. In the Middle East, you have some lighter people but mostly some pretty dark people. In fact prior to the 20th century it was 80 percent black and brown people. depends.

it's very colorist, but there's a global white/black dichotomy where Chinese are percieved as white, but Mmalaysians,Vietnamese,Filipino,First nation aboriginal etc are black. It's all ridiculous -a hodgepodge of social construct assignations that change with the wind and rather than creating new categories by which we can segregate and dehumanize each other we should be seeking to eliminate those categories altogether.

According to multiple polls, a growing number of Americans are leaving Christianity, including younger generations: A 2024 Deseret/Marist poll found that 40% of Americans attend religious services once or twice a month, down from 52% in 2011.A 2020 Pew Research Center study found that 64% of Americans identify as Christian, down from 90% 50 years earlier. The study also projects that Christians could make uponly 40% of the U.S. population by 2050! The largest reason for the decline appears to be that Christians and their behavior are in and of themselves a significant turn-off. The vast majority of Americans hate the message that Jesus preached. If a poor, homeless Jew came to their door preaching about helping the poor, most Americans would call the police and expect them to throw him in jail.

Most Americans worship wealth, power, guns, violence, class division, movie stars, porn stars, models, ect they support the militarization of the police the same way Nazi Germany supported the formation of the Gestapo when germany militarized its police force. Many Christian evangelicals support the Genocide of Palestinians and American religious groups have spent millions exporting homophobia to the East African nation of Uganda in support of the death penalty for LGBTQ, again similar to the fascist movements of 20th century Europe. The legislation that passed into law comes after years of lobbying from American Christian groups,who can consider themselves directly responsible for the killings or life imprisonments that will ensue.

The younger generation of Americans aren’t stupid and they aren’t as afraid to speak out against hypocrisy like older folks are. Many religious organizations deny or ignore climate change and the existential threat to humanity. Young people can clearly see that their parents are religious hypocrites and this disgusts them. Most would never stoop to the level about lying about such an important matter. So, why do evangelicals tend to deny climate change? Rather than being entirely religious, the reason is at least partly racist. Evangelical Christians tend to be more conservative in their theology and social beliefs than other branches of Christianity.

Evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation's founding played a provocative role in severely dividing the nation. the Civil War, white evangelicals used scripture to defend slavery and nurture the Confederacy. During Reconstruction, they used it to deny the vote to newly emancipated blacks. In the twentieth century, they sided with segregationists in avidly opposing movements for racial equality and civil rights. Most recently, evangelicals supported the Tea Party, a Muslim ban, and border policies allowing family separation.

White evangelicals have historically been one of the demographics most resistant to action on the issue of climate change.Powerful Evangelical Christian groups publicly dispute that Climate Change exists. A coalition of major evangelical groups, including Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council, launched a movement opposing what they describe as “the false worldview” of environmentalism, which supposedly is “striving to put America, and the world, under its destructive control.” Core aspects of modern science undermine fundamentalist understanding of religious texts. In particular, evolution by natural selection which places the African or melanated humans at the top of the human scale, as evolved homo sapiens a central concept underlying the biological sciences, which is utterly incompatible with most evangelical creationist faith traditions of a White God creating white Adam and Eve who had white offspring until a sin and or curses from God created other races.

Slavery is the foundation of racism and power in American evangelicalism. Responses to slavery, both for and against, have fundamentally shaped the evangelical movement in a number of important ways. While lynchings have occurred throughout U.S. history, across geographic regions, and have targeted individuals from various racial and ethnic backgrounds. The most widely-known incarnation is the lynching of African Americans in the Jim Crow-era south.Religion, as an important social institution, influenced the shape of local racial conflict and thus played a mitigating or exacerbating role in the incidence of lynching. Lynching was not a furtive act nor generally regarded as shameful affair. Rather, lynching served as a public spectacle that often took on carnival-like characteristics – “festivals of violence” (Tolnay and Beck1995)