“White Protestant pastors often defended lynching as biblical justice, protection of women, or divine law when courts “failed.” – ChatGPT

“The Christian church of this country is guilty of a shameful silence in the face of the most barbaric outrages against humanity… The pulpit has been silent, the press has been silent, and the church has stood by while these things have been done in the name of the law.” – Ida B. Wells (Investigative journalist, devout Baptist), A Red Record (1895)

“Lynching is not the expression of justice; it is the triumph of brute force. A mob is the very opposite of the Kingdom of God.” –Walter Rauschenbusch (Protestant theologian, leader of the Social Gospel movement, 1907), Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907)

“Our white Christian brethren can shout over the salvation of the heathen abroad, but they cannot see the crucifixions of Negroes at home.” – James Weldon Johnson (Black Christian writer, NAACP leader, 1917), Address to NAACP anti-lynching rally, 1917