Dillon Burns’s Reviews > White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity > Status Update
Dillon Burns
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Every page in this book continues to be compelling, convicting, frustrating, and galvanizing.
This is a good point:
"Ultimately, the construction of a new foundation will require white Americans to do something we have never been willing to do: reanimate our own histories and confront a violent and unflattering past."
— Jan 21, 2025 08:14AM
This is a good point:
"Ultimately, the construction of a new foundation will require white Americans to do something we have never been willing to do: reanimate our own histories and confront a violent and unflattering past."
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Dillon Burns
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The stunning conclusions from this chapter: being racist is a statistically significant independent variable for prediction whether someone is a Christian, and how frequently someone attends church has no impact on whether someone holds racist views. This is rigorous quantitative evidence that the white Christian church hasn't simply been apathetic to racism but actively transmitted and reinforced white supremacy.
— Jan 22, 2025 06:44AM
Dillon Burns
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"Through every chapter [of American history], white Christianity has been at the ready to ensure white Christians that they are alternatively -- and sometimes simultaneously -- the noble protagonists and the blameless victims." (pg 20)
— Jan 16, 2025 07:00AM
Dillon Burns
is on page 15 of 306
Only fifteen pages in and it's already insightful and offering a very direct and pointed depiction of white supremacy in America today.
— Jan 14, 2025 09:56AM
