The Apostasy of the Black Church

Photo ~ In front of a painting of the "Black Jesus," Rev. Michael Pfleger delivers his sermon at St. Sabina Catholic Church during the predominantly African-American congregation's Unity Mass in Chicago on Sept. 2, 2012

The slaves arrived here mostly pagan. They received Christianity in one generation; that made such an impact that the shock-waves created then are still reverberating, if with decreasing intensity, in American black culture today.

It is noteworthy that the only American subculture that can almost be defined by its association with the gospel is the black culture. No other immigrant people put such a trademark on "gospel" music. (Gospel music is almost axiomatically black music.) If the slaves cannot be said to have been materially rich, it cannot be denied that they were rich in their abundant reception of Grace.

But skip ahead a few years, and we find a black church which embraced a political party in order to achieve its social and material objectives. And in exchange for these gains, it submitted to compromise on almost every tenet of traditional Christianity.

In the last election more than 90% of black America voted for a party (the Democrat Party - ED) which endorses abortion (even late-term abortion), same-sex marriage, gay rights, and the entire litany of left-wing social programs. And this unwavering fealty to one party (and therefore to its secular agenda) has been unbroken for the last fifty years. Was the benefit worth the cost?

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