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.
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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