"Growing up in Texas and Mississippi, author Robert P. Jones was a very active member of his Southern Baptist Convention church. Between youth group, Bible studies and prayer services, he spent about 6-7 hours each week at church or doing church related things. But in all that time, he never really heard about the church's history — including the fact that Southern Baptists split from the North around 1844 because the Northern Baptists opposed slavery. "I was 20 years old before I got a hint of that history ... and even had the possibility of beginning to think about what the implications of that were," Jones says. In his new book, White Too Long, Jones examines the legacy of white supremacy among Southern Baptists and other Christian denominations. Jones says the Southern Baptist Convention tends to focus on each individual's interior relationship with God — and "essentially screens out questions of social justice." "I cannot remember a single sermon calling attention to racial inequality, racial injustice [or] the struggle for civil rights," he says."
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Robert P. Jones as quoted by Terry Gross in “American Christianity Must Reckon With Legacy Of White Supremacy, Author Says”, Fresh Air, NPR, (July 30, 2020)
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