Rev. Barber: ‘White Evangelicalism Is Connected to White Nationalism’ and Is ‘Backbone of Racism’

‘Blocking living wages is a non-Christian policy’

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RUSH EXCERPT:

BARBER: "First of all, I heard a lot of what your panel said. True orthodox evangelicals would not be supporting Roy Moore and this extremism and Republican religionism. White evangelicalism is connected to white nationalism, white supremacy. It’s the backbone of racism that has happened in this country. You understand why white nationalism, white supremacy that promotes racism. Racism is twisted. This notion of white evangelical values is twisted any way. I call them Republican religiousist are culprits in the Moore defenses. They have given him and so many others cover on so many non-Christian policies like blocking health care is a non-Christian policy. Blocking living wages is a non-Christian policy. Blocking and suppressing voting rights is a non-Christian policy. Hating gay people is a non-Christian people. Promoting gun S a non-Christian policy. If you embolden these people by giving them support and trying to call their support on those issues Christian, then it should not surprise us that they have their emboldened in this issue. Now you have people trying to compare this with Jesus and the virgin Mary and saying that he’s under some spiritual attack like Jesus was under spiritual attack and he’s in a spiritual battle. A real spiritual battle would be addressing the fact that nearly in some counties in Alabama, 40% of the people in poverty. There’s 24% of children living in households that are poverty. That’s policy pedophilia. You have 900,000 people in poverty. 20% with no health insurance. Those are the things that Christians should be dealing with if they were dealing with orthodox evangelicalism. It’s a term they have hijacked like they hijacked the term the right versus the left. We get caught up in all these terms. They get to use the terms as if they are valid. Moore, himself, he got involved in trying to keep the state from over turning segregation laws. It’s the Alabama Christian coalition. Just because you use the name did you want make you Christian. There are scriptures that say people can say lord, lord but their hearts are far from him. You have to understand the distinct connection betw evangelicalism and how people can get this twisted in their moral aspects and perspectives that’s so contrary to orthodox Christianity and orthodox evangelicalism as it’s laid out in scripture."

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