Should-Read: Chris Ladd: The article removed from Forbes,...

Should-Read: Chris Ladd: The article removed from Forbes, ���Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel���: "Modern, white evangelicalism emerged from the interplay between race and religion in the slave states...

...Many Christian movements take the title ���evangelical,��� including many African-American denominations. However, evangelicalism today has been coopted as a preferred description for... an older, largely discredited title: Fundamentalist.... And among those evangelical churches, one denomination remains by far the leader in membership, theological pull, and political influence. There is still today a��Southern��Baptist Church. More than a century and a half after the Civil War, and decades after the Methodists and Presbyterians reunited with their Yankee neighbors, America���s most powerful evangelical denomination remains defined, right down to the name over the door, by an 1845 split over slavery...