Magda Teter

This is so much more expansive and comprehensive than I was anticipating. The blurb I read after reading this said it covers 2000 years of history, which I am just connecting with the timeline of the existence of Christianity. There is unfortunately a lot of antisemitism in most Christian hermeneutics, with supersessionist theology trying to delegitimize Jews from the get-go.
The Christian impulse to "other" anyone not like them started with the Jews, and grew to include Black people in the US. This is very much a hold-no-punches look at what Christians have been implicit in, if not culpable for, since they have had any majority political or social power. The holocaust and the American slave trade are given plenty of page time here.
This is quite impressive in tracing systemic racism back through generations and millennia, leaving those who doubt racism is systemic with little recourse but to reckon with the past that is beating us over the head in our present. The text is accessible and not overly-scholarly, but it is dense and sweeping, which will likely scare away the casual reader. Hopefully this will be source material for more digestible material soon to come.… (meer)