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Birds of a feather?

There is a lot of dissonance in the evangelical version of Christianity and the answer to any doubt is that you need more faith. At its inception, Evangelicism was a blockade against cultural change (abolition) and nothing has changed.

Evangelicism was and is against abolition, ERA, civil rights, immigration, birth control, school busing, public education, the welfare of any kind, etc. If they are involved in any kind of social welfare it is proselytizing because salvation and white male privilege are at its core.
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HannahSky · F
Where are you getting they were against abolition?
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@HannahSky Because some were. On the other hand, other groups of Christians were on the other side of the issue, and could also be called evangelicals (though generally we don't group Quakers, etc into that segment anymore in casual speech).

For a period perspective, this is an interesting speech.

Frederick Douglass, “Slavery in the Pulpit of the Evangelical Alliance: An Address Delivered in London, England, on September 14, 1846.”

https://glc.yale.edu/slavery-pulpit-evangelical-alliance
HannahSky · F
@QuixoticSoul I was asking for her reference.
SWMae · 26-30, F
@HannahSky

Reference? I took a course in African American Writers and it was eye-opening, to say the least. Maybe this will enlighten you...

https://storeyinstitute.blogspot.com/2014/11/evangelicalism-and-slavery-historic.html
HannahSky · F
@SWMae ok yes I was just wondering if you were looking at something specific online or a book etc