Jesus Christ was racist.

OK, I’m not saying that the actual historical Jesus — who may have been black — was racist. He seemed to be a pretty chill guy.

But certainly the European Christian concept of Jesus — all blonde and blue-eyed and ready to do some smiting — was crazy bigoted. 

Of course, the link between racism and Christianity has been strong for centuries. Think of the forced conversions of indigenous people in the Americas, or the zealotry of missionaries in Africa.

However, we don’t have to look to the past. Right here in 2021, it is difficult “to overstate how central to White Christians' worldview is this idea of America as a White Christian nation,” even though this idea “is more myth than reality.”

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