Any violation of God’s original purpose manifests insubordination to Him (Acts 17:26 Romans 9:19-24). God wills all races to be as he made them. His refutation was so exact that in the 1992 edition of the Dake’s Bible 24 of those 30 reasons had been modified.įor example, Dake’s first reason reads this way: Through the following seven chapters, Apostle Price punches large holes in many of those 30 reasons, easily refuting them with the Word of God. In a section called Notes on Acts of the Apostles, Dake listed “30 reasons for segregation of races.”Īpostle Price observes that that edition of Dake’s notes was written in 1963, “after the start of the Civil Rights Movement.” At the time of the writing of the second volume of Race, Religion & Racism, Dake’s 30 reasons for segregation of races had been in print for 37 years. Price takes aim at what “appears to be” racist teachings in the popular Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, “one of the most widely read Pentecostal Bibles in the last half of the 20th Century. The volume is so chock-full of notable quotes and outstanding research that a suitable review would rival the book itself. What has been shared in those first two pages is typical of what is found throughout the book, but there is so much more to come for the reader. What these appendages ensure is that the book has been well researched and that those students of history who wants to check the facts for themselves can easily do so. This volume has more than 300 pages, with a large appendix, an extensive bibliography, a chapter index and a scriptural index. The gist is that “Christianity has gotten a bad name around the world with people of color.” We’ll not use up space to quote them here. He quotes from some of the pseudo-scientific racist and materials that were written about blacks to prove that they were subhuman. When blacks were first brought to this country as slaves, the lie was propagated that Blacks were inherently inferior – really just animals –and therefore needed to be segregated from Whites, particularly from white women.” “The primary motivation for this has been the fear of interracial marriage between black and white people, a fear that has been fundamental to white society since the early part of the 17th Century. Here’s another bombshell from those first two pages: The first chapter is so pithy, and so revolutionary, that it is hard to read beyond it. I’m talking about how men have distorted the Word of God to foster their own racist attitudes, beliefs and practices.” So when I say that religion has been the most flagrant perpetrator of racism in the world, and that the Christian Church in America has been the leading perpetrator, I’m not talking about the enlightened Word of God.
“People inject their personal ideas into religion, and with their personal ideas come their personal prejudices.” How can religion, which we associate with the Word of God, be a perpetrator of something evil like racism? The answer is that religion is not necessarily the Word of God, and that has been the problem.
“At first glance, to people who know God, this may seem paradoxical. The opening chapter, which is titled The White Distortion: Interweaving Racism with Religion, continues: Those quoted words above begin the second volume of his Race, Religion & Racism books. Īpostle Price spoke those words during 76 hours of teachings on the subject of Race, Religion & Racism in the late 1990s. Price was teaching over his Ever Increasing Faith telecast was the long-overdue truth and nothing but. Some viewers were shocked, others were outraged, but many others were delighted and felt what Dr. At the time, he was pastor of the Crenshaw Christian Center megachurch in Los Angeles.
Price spoke them more than two decades ago. Those don’t sound like the words of one of the nation’s leading pastors, do they? But they were when Apostle Frederick K.C. “Religion has been the most flagrant perpetrator of racism in the world, and the Christian Church in America has been the leading perpetrator.”