White Supremacy and The American Patriot’s Bible
<p>Someone in our book club, a religion professor, ordered the book to see what it contains and to use examples from it in courses. In his office one day, I pulled it down from the shelf and started looking through it. This is no commentary on scriptures. Rather, there are entries that highlight historical figures’ faith and historical events in the United States, connecting them all with God and the Bible. It contains selections from George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King, Jr, alongside prayers from Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and more. It is white supremacist ideology, coded as color blind Christian belief in the equality of all. I haven’t looked at the entire Patriot’s Bible yet, but I did read through a four-page insert section on the Civil War. This section, devoid of any scriptural references, epitomizes the white supremacist rhetoric, couched in Christianity, that populates the <em>Patriot’s Bible</em>.</p>
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