Heather Dennehy

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We Christians, in fact—British and American—were the ones who decided that we couldn’t do to Indigenous people and kidnapped Africans what we were doing, if they were indeed people made in the image of God. “So, we said they weren’t. They weren’t humans made in the image of God. What we did is we threw away Imago Dei. We threw it away to justify what we’re doing…. white supremacy was America’s original sin…. At the heart of the sin was a lie,” he said.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World Essentials)
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