White churches actively produced white supremacy rather than merely tolerating it

Evidence

While charges of complacency and complicity are accurate as far as they go, they overlook the proactive role white religious leaders and white churches played in creating a uniquely American and distinctively Christian form of white supremacy. One of the principal reasons white Christians fought so staunchly to ensure that their own churches remained segregated was because they understood the critical role these institutions played in the protection, production, and proliferation of white supremacy. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 102

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports and extends the article on sacrifice — the segregated church as the institution where white supremacy, like sacrifice, stabilizes a stratified social order.
• recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: White American churches historically worshipped a Jesus who demanded racial hierarchy. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 31; White churches actively constructed, not merely tolerated, white supremacy. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 30; White churchgoers streamed directly from Sunday worship to a mass lynching — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 91 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• White churches historically functioned as agents upholding racist social structures #corroborates (0.92) — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1055
• Parallel civic and church catechisms fused white supremacy onto Christian formation. #expands (0.88) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 364
• White churches transmit white supremacy because their theology never reformed #expands (0.85) — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 547