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Rev. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church pens passionate open letter to God in response to the 2016 election of Donald Trump.
You are trying to find a new north for your moral compass. A way forward.
I am not. I stand before you unafraid, unsurprised and unbowed. Not because I’m made of better stuff than you. But because I know white America.
Whatever the outcome of today’s historic election, the crucial question to consider is how we move forward as people of faith.
Sexual assault breeds a culture that normalizes women being objectified, demeaned, and unsafe at the pleasure of men. It is a violation beyond imagination that ruptures if not shatters a woman’s body and spirit.
“We want to take our country back!” They were intentional about what they meant. And they are intentional now.
Evangelicals have shown that their love for God leans toward maintaining their view of God in a white-ruled country. They have shown that the words of Jesus, for Christians to be forgiving and to care for “the least of these” have little to do with their religion.
