I, unfortunately, have decided that I’m going to have to leave my church due to their unrelenting BLM support and (of course) racism towards anyone who isn’t openly supporting it. When I joined this church in 2012 it was great, it was extremely spiritual and wasn’t extremist in any sort of way. They were very open and accepting of all beliefs, and I never felt ashamed to be there.
Now the entire church is only discussing how white people need to pray on our inherent evil towards minorities. One of our ministers is a black woman who was very accepting until BLM first came into existence. After that she set up a church protest to go protest the execution of a black man who had raped and murdered a woman and her child. I was NOT down with participating with that, and really considered leaving after that incident but ultimately decided to stay. From there she and another minister made it known she was not a Trump fan and now all of the leaders there are calling all white people racist. They also just recently said even other races were racist if they didn’t support BLM.
It wasnt super obvious until these past few months, but from then on things kept becoming more extremist and unaccepting. This is not a place where people can celebrate differences in thought or beliefs.
Have any of you guys had to leave a church or a community due to the rising racism of BLM / all the other shit going on? I honestly never thought I’d be hard pressed into leaving, but I don’t feel peace or love there anymore. I don’t even know how to go about finding another place to worship because I’m sure my church isn’t the only place where this is happening.
The first red flag was "open and accepting of all beliefs". That isn't what a church is supposed to be. A church is about spreading the gospel of Jesus and for fellowship of like minded Christians. Shouldn't surprise you that a church that is open to all beliefs would fall so easily for BLM. A good church has certain rules that if not followed will result in loss of membership. Such as, living in an adulterous relationship and not repenting. Jesus said go and sin no more. He didn't say that your sin is okay because you were born that way.
I was gonna say the same thing... "what kind of church accepts all beliefs?" Down lower in this thread I see OP says it's Unitarian. So, hunch status = confirmed on that one.