{"id":439,"date":"2026-03-20T16:04:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:04:31","slug":"the-bible-told-them-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"The Bible Told Them So"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, I read the book, <strong><em>The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy<\/em><\/strong> by J. Russell Hawkins. My heart ached reading this book and seeing all of the different ways that I, and many other Christians, have used the Bible to support segregation. We may avoid clear racist terms, but we use &#8220;codewords&#8221; that sound Biblical and are used to continue structural racism.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Most merciful God,<br>I confess that I have sinned against you<br>in thought, word, and deed,<br>by what I have done,<br>and by what I have left undone.<br>I have not loved you with my whole heart;<br>I have not loved my neighbors as myself.<br>I am truly sorry and I humbly repent.<br>For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ,<br>have mercy on me and forgive me;<br>that I may delight in your will,<br>and walk in your ways,<br>to the glory of your Name. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I read the book, The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins. My heart ached reading this book and seeing all of the different ways that I, and many other Christians, have used the Bible to support segregation. We may avoid clear racist terms, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greggfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}