Sinners in the hands of an angry god, Jonathan Edwards, Puritan minister in Massachusetts was wanted Africans souls and enslavement was a “spiritual necessary”, just as segregation into “praying Indians” and “hostiles” for extermination. 16th-18th century Anglo Saxons were emerging from more than a century of religious and civil wars, that were as devastating as the the world wars were in our times.
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Sinners in the hands of an angry god, Jonathan Edwards, Puritan minister in Massachusetts was wanted Africans souls and enslavement was a “spiritual necessary”, just as segregation into “praying Indians” and “hostiles” for extermination. 16th-18th century Anglo Saxons were emerging from more than a century of religious and civil wars, that were as devastating as the the world wars were in our times.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity
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