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JT45242

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15. White dude in a blended mostly African American church

Reply to JT45242 (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 10, 2026, 09:35 AM

Feb 10

I've heard a lot of those sermons over the years...but for me, it was from an African American preacher speaking in a lower SES part of town.

But there is a place for those sermons...I've lived it in those churches. When we did Friday night movies or Friday night hoops during the summer for many of the kids what we fed them, especially towards the end of the month might have been the only full meal that day.

But that is a very different sermon than Christian nationalist charlatans. Or worse yet those prosperity gospel grifters like Joel Osteen

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