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    3 days ago

    This reminds me of the words of Frederick Douglass.

    …between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven ​to, serve the devil in.” I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together with the horrible inconsistencies, which every where surround me.

    • Frederick Douglass, 1845

    The entire thing is worth reading. The “corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land” is clearly the very same that overwhelmingly persists and thrives today… 180 years later.

    https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass,_an_American_Slave/Appendix