MOST Churches are Segregated!

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

According to THIS ARTICLE, most churches in the United States are segregated. That doesn't mean that they thoughtfully reserve a section for the colored folk for their comfort, as my brothers and sisters at Landover do; it means that they (whether white or black) just plain don't let THOSE PEOPLE into their churches!

Yet people claim Landover is a racist church??

(CNN) -- The Rev. Paul Earl Sheppard had recently become the senior pastor of a suburban church in California when a group of parishioners came to him with a disturbing personal question.

They were worried because the racial makeup of their small church was changing. They warned Sheppard that the church's newest members would try to seize control because members of their race were inherently aggressive. What was he was going to do if more of "them" tried to join their church?

"One man asked me if I was prepared for a hostile takeover," says Sheppard, pastor of Abundant Life Christian Fellowship in Mountain View, California.

The nervous parishioners were African-American, and the church's newcomers were white. Sheppard says the experience demonstrated why racially integrated churches are difficult to create and even harder to sustain. Some blacks as well as whites prefer segregated Sundays, religious scholars and members of interracial churches say.

Americans may be poised to nominate a black man to run for president, but it's segregation as usual in U.S. churches, according to the scholars. Only about 5 percent of the nation's churches are racially integrated, and half of them are in the process of becoming all-black or all-white, says Curtiss Paul DeYoung, co-author of "United by Faith," a book that examines interracial churches in the United States.

[Roberta]

Re: MOST Churches are Segregated!

They warned Sheppard that the church's newest members would try to seize control because members of their race were inherently aggressive.

Sounds like a bunch of completed joos are trying to get control of Abundant's treasury!

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: MOST Churches are Segregated!

So the Darkies want another break! Why am I not surprised? After all, they have been brought up with a sense of being entitled to everything whether or not they are qualified or can afford it. We can either accede to their wishes and see this fine country backslide into the jaws of Hell, or we can insist that the wealthy have a responsibility to create more wealth! Let me explain:

To an extent the congregation is right, the church is ready for an aggressive takeover by property speculators or a hedge fund – its tithing rate is probably laughably low (unless watermelon seeds count) but it is in an area ripe for re-development.

I look to Landover to learn from the example and look for failing churches in prime areas. With minimal organization we could have the church taken over for peanuts, have the pastor evicted and replaced with a True Christian Pastor or sell off the property for intensely multiple occupancy housing or a high-end gated community.

I remember my father speaking highly of colonialism in Bongo-Bongoland or wherever, of allowing less fortunate heathens to sell off their land and assets to those who could best take advantage of them. Why, he even quoted that squeaky-voiced old Uncle Tom, Desmond Tutu:


"When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "let us close our eyes and pray." When we opened them, we had the Bible, and they had the land.” (It bothers me that a man named after a ballet dress should be considered an authority on anything at all.)

Brothers and sisters, God has shown us an opportunity to increase our wealth, let us not be slow!