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Eliminating racism requires Christians to overcome their tendency to worship a God that is solely based on their own cultural conceptions, evangelical minister Anthony Campolo said in a speech at Memorial Church yesterday night...
...We’ve got to find the God that transcends the God of the tribes, that is more than the constructions that emerge from cultures,” said Campolo, who founded the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education and has spoken about religion on shows such as “Nightline...
Speaking along with local Baptist minister Jeffrey Brown in an address entitled “Breaking Barriers: Racial Reconciliation in the Church,” Campolo said religion can become a form of oppression when one dominant group imposes its conception of God—what he called a “God of selves”—on another group...
...Campolo said anthropological research had found that before establishing religion, cultures often determined what they considered to be “traits and values that make them distinct...
...Campolo urged the audience to remain tolerant of cultural distinctions but to recognize Christianity intended to destroy division and “to make us into...