My experience with white evangelicalism was similar. It was toxic in so many ways, but it also offered me something. It made the world simple and straightforward. There was us and there was them. People were either saved or not, and we knew who was who. Light and truth were found here, evil and darkness were over there. I knew that sin and righteousness were incompatible and never the two shall meet. Whiteness creates binaries. Its entire purpose is to separate and categorize people and cultures according to a hierarchy. It’s evil, but evil can comfort, in its own perverted way.
