Should-Read: Chris Ladd: The article removed from Forbes, “Why White Evangelicalism Is So Cruel”: "Modern, white evangelicalism emerged from the interplay between race and religion in the slave states...
...Many Christian movements take the title “evangelical,” including many African-American denominations. However, evangelicalism today has been coopted as a preferred description for... an older, largely discredited title: Fundamentalist.... And among those evangelical churches, one denomination remains by far the leader in membership, theological pull, and political influence. There is still today a Southern Baptist Church. More than a century and a half after the Civil War, and decades after the Methodists and Presbyterians reunited with their Yankee neighbors, America’s most powerful evangelical denomination remains defined, right down to the name over the door, by an 1845 split over slavery...
