The Christian question comes down to whether we should base our morality and our entire life on the interpretation of the most murderous book in human history, in order to save our own soul from hell by pretending to have the moral authority to tell everyone else how to live to save their souls, or whether doing such a thing is simply our desire to assert some power and control over others, while always being able to defer the responsibility for doing so to our imaginary friend we call “Jesus” (who’s blood we drink every Sunday and who’s execution device we wear as a gold ornament around our neck)?
If Ben Shapiro really wants answers to his condemnations of BLM, he should start by reading a few books, and then some. For example, he can find all of the answer's he's looking for in: Slavery By Another Name , by Douglas Blackmon, which shows how "thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced labor with shocking force and brutality," right up until the 1970s, when I was still in grade school. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness , by Civil Rights litigator and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, which explains how "mass incarceration" under the ruse of a War on Drugs, has effectively created a caste system that is as pronounced in America today as it was in the Jim Crow south, if not more. Ghosts of Jim Crow , which was written by Constitutional Law Professor, F. Michael Higgenbotham, which explains in great detail how "the shadows of Jim Crow era laws and attitudes continue to perpetuate insidious, ...
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