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The Holy Heresy Reparation Shakedown

by Andy Caldwell

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Mar 31, 2024
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On the eve of Holy Week, the Boston Globe reported that a group of clergy members called on “white churches” in Boston to back reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. “We point to them in Christian love to publicly atone for the sins of slavery and we ask them to commit to a process of reparations where they will extend their great wealth — tens…

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