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.
A couple weeks ago my church had a “conversation” instead of a service. Mind you this was right after downtown had been looted. Basically said white people need to listen, expand our circle of friends to include other view points, and shut down racism. Then a lady involved in the church talked about how she faced racism in college where she was a minority and a majority of people thought she got accepted to the school to play a sport.
I took it with a grain of salt. Obviously racism is bad. But when you start the conversation with saying a certain group needs to not talk and only listen - and that we need to “look at the facts” (selective facts - obviously nothing like crime stats or anything) I’m out. From the sounds of your church this was very mild.
I’m not leaving, I think they meant well all things considered. I would seek a new church if I were you... if you find a wolf in sheep’s clothing there really isn’t any reason to stay with that flock.
Omg you don’t live in Atlanta do you? That sounds identical to one of my friends church after downtown was set on fire and looted
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That sounds like my church also. Nowhere near ATL but the church service was similar expect it was a half black guy who gave us his story of racism. Funny thing is that the worst thing he could come up with was how it felt to be the only black kid in his school. Everyone treated him well, he just felt odd sometimes as the only black.
The church is now going woke and I'm about to leave if it continues.