Way back in the 1970s, there was a comedian named Flip Wilson who always said "The Devil made me do it." Well, nowadays, it's religious fundies claiming "God" is making them do everything. "You" actually don't "hate" anyone. "God" does, and you're just an "instrument" of his divine "will."

Remember the song "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic?" The problem with trying to claim divine right to justify hate is that it can -- and most likely will -- be turned right back on you. If I remember correctly, I think we fought a war or something about this... :)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/12/05/discriminating-in-the-name-of-religion-segregationists-and-slaveholders-did-it-too/

"Through the civil rights period and beyond, this theology enabled segregationist appeals to religious freedom — and shaped a distinctive white racial Christianity in the process. Much like their proslavery predecessors, 20th-century segregationists argued that the civil rights movement was trying to impose an alien, anti-Christian, even communistic ideology that would destroy the Christian racial order of the South."

"Yet while the issues confronting the court are fresh, the larger tension between religious freedom and civil rights actually stretches far back in American history. In battles over slavery and racial segregation, religion and scripture were often cited as justification for maintaining inequality. Until the civil rights era, refusals to serve African Americans were often cloaked under the guise of religious freedom. As social norms changed, the religious justifications for this bigotry became legally untenable."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/16/us/tennessee-bathroom-bill-public-schools/index.html

The Tennessee Accommodations for All Children Act -- also known as House Bill 1233 -- requires public schools to make "reasonable accommodation" for a person who cannot or will not use a restroom or changing facility designated for their sex in a public school building or at a school-sponsored activity.

https://canopyforum.org/2021/05/13/christian-nationalism-and-recent-anti-trans-state-laws/

"Christian nationalism is not primarily an expression of thoughts or beliefs about American identity; it expresses a perception of American identity, a visceral, felt sense of authentic American belonging. "

Ahh...remember this? The good old Curse Of Cain. You thought it had gone away, didn't you...
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/12/one-drop-rule-persists/

The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

So say Harvard University psychologists, who’ve found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members of both parent groups, but as belonging more to their minority parent group. The research appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.



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