Subj : Re: Race and faith.
To   : ALL
From : SKIRNIR
Date : Mon Jun 19 2000 07:53 am

Anna Crowley wrote:
>
> I wonder about the same thing myself....  maybe they dont have a personal
> relationship with Jesus, maybe they just have religion?

I doubt that this is the case.  Many people were just raised in a time
when it was general culture to dislike certain groups.  My great aunt is
one of those.  As a child, visiting her often, I thought she was a
wonderful christian, until I got to be a teen and heard her diatribes on
blacks.  It doesn't make one less of a christian to make mistakes or to
sin, merely one in need of forgiving, and one in need of further work.

> William Thompson wrote:
>
> >               This an open invitation to anyone whom, can tell me how
> > can it be possible to profess love for Christ while harboring feelings
> > of racial hate?                        This is a personal topic for me
> > as I was married and we never enjoyed a moment of piece from her family.
> > I asked myself was it do to the fact that they were Lutherans. I say
> > this keeping in mind that all Lutheran's are not of the same caliber,
> > but how is it that they {and Mormons as well} gravitate toward racial
> > separation. I have not seen a single couple of different cultural
> > backgrounds in any of these congregations.

To be honest, I belong to a Lutheran church, ELCA and I have found that
ELCA is one of the most diverse group of christians that I have ever
found.  I have tried a number of churches before trying a Lutheran
church. Maybe it was the generation of the people to which you refer and
not the denomination or religion at all.

Skirnir
alcourt@execpc.com
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