The Evil of White Supremacy

Show Notes

Obviously there is much work to be done but it starts with the courage to resist evil with the nonviolence of Christ.

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Speaker 1: 00:00

I need to say something about the outbreaks of violence that we've seen in Charlottesville this week. Let me be clear. Racism, white nationalism, violence, nuclear weapons, the glorification of guns that we see spreading across our society, this is Antichrist. Now we can have reasonable discussions about immigration policies and we can discuss gun ownership, but anything that opposes the peace of Christ, Anything, anyone, any system that works against peace. This stands in opposition to the Prince of Peace.

Speaker 1: 00:36

And there is no room left for churches and pastors and teachers that sit on the sidelines where black and brown and indigenous and LGBTQ lives are not valued as equal before God. The courage to resist evil with the non violence of Christ, this is how the world is healed. But sometimes that courage starts with the willingness to acknowledge that the same evil that erupts in Charlottesville is the same evil that creates systems of white supremacy in the world, is the same evil that lurks inside all of us who benefit from those systems whenever we let them go unnamed in the world. Obviously, there is much work to be done. And for us as followers of Christ, that starts within us.

Speaker 1: 01:30

Let's pray.