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Originally posted by DoggyStyle82
The "white" church played no role in stemming aids in the community where it was most prevalent, which was white, gay males.
Even the most ardent anti-gay pastors have AIDS ministries in their churches. My current church does not condemn the sufferers, but they don't condone the behavior of how it was acquired, be it straight fornication, drug use, down low, or homosexuality. The Black Church cannot be repsonsible for everything beyond its original mission. That is why all of our black institutions suffer from. The responsibility to be everything to everybody for every issue. The original intent of the orginization loses focus, gets lost or watered down, or overwhelmed. The bigger a church gets, the less Gospel they preach and the more wayward the congregation. No others communities organizations get called on to do more beyond their original intent than Black organizations. All of this hyper-criticism obscures the facts of these problems and where there origins lie and how to effectively deal with them. we are no longer in the MLK era where information was meted out by the Church out of neccessity as the one resource that we all shared.
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Brother, that is a stupefying assertion, akin to Jesus saying that the sick, the poor and the demon possessed wasn't his business. His job was to get to the cross as quick as possible. But once we realize that His mission was to destroy the work of the enemy, which held sway over all the nation (and the world) and not just a certain sphere, then we see the wholistic mission of the Kingdon of God. When we look at the church as some sort of sociocultural or political institution then we denude it, and transform it into what human beings want it to be for our own purposes. This is similar to what the slave owners said when they and their supporting pastors asserted that the church was to save the slave's souls so that we could use them as chattel, obeying God.Our ancestors knew this was a lie, revealed to them from God, and stood in the truth of God.