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Tell me, Huckabee, why was Jim Crow so strong in the so-called Bible belt? Why were there more lynchings in the Bible belt than in the rest of the country (which is not to deny that lynchings occurred in the North and elsewhere)? Please tell us about the false doctrine of "the curse of Ham," which was very much a part of white fundamentalist religion. Hey, Huckabee, tell us about your heroes Jerry Falwell and W. A. Criswell (not to mention many others). Before the passage of civil rights laws, did they condemn racial bigotry? No, like so many other white Baptist preachers, they were segregationists! I could go on and on. The history is very, very bad; but most religious whites are unwilling to deal with it! The Southern Baptist Convention has recently apologized for their long, long abysmally racist record; but it's way, way, way too late for that.

I don't mean to single out Baptists. White racist theology was taught in many other churches as well.

By the way, I'm not an atheist or an agnostic. I'm a white Southern Christian (if you consider Texas to be part of the South)!

What's new in this sick way of thinking? I try to avoid all "god people". Hard to do since my siblings are hard core evangelical. I did manage to move 1600 miles away to one of the least religious states.