There are people who, for whatever reason, have strong opinions about race. These people 'tend' to then rationalize that opinion to fit with their religion...or even LACK of religion.
They do what I call "throwing the dart, then drawing the bullseye around it."... make their strained logic fit what they already believe.
They can be of any religion or no religion....prejudice & bigotry are eclectic, even when percentages seem to be higher in certain areas. After all, people who DO have strong opinions often congregate and find ways...formal or not... to exclude those whom they are uncomfortable about. The church Don Firth notes makes a special effort to NOT exclude, but some churches either don't bother, or haven't ever been faced with the decision - as seems to be the case with this small place.

It IS possible to detect trends and make some generalizations, but it is all too easy to find your own generalization becoming too easy an answer and falling into the same fallacy as those you criticize.

Rather than simply applying a label to a group, it is safer to decry an attitude and comment on sad examples of that attitude without 'implying' that it applies to a specific group.


It ain't easy....I know I tend to think of Texas as a place I could not live...but I know too many Texans who do NOT make me uncomfortable....and Christians, too!