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To: Krowbar who wrote (21293)	5/9/1998 3:08:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) of 108807

Del, I agree that the KKK were white Protestants, and even more so that calling them Christians is misleading (although certainly Protestants are Christians). I am also aware that they discriminated against Catholics, and Jews, as well as black people. It is easy to say now that these people were only called Christians, and that the cross burnings and lynchings and all the other things they did were so vile that they could not really be Christians at all. But my grandfather was a KKK member. He died long before I was born, but from everything I have heard, he was very religious. I did know my grandmother (his wife), very well, because she survived until I was an adult, and she considered herself very moral and ethical and religious. There just seemed to be a schism back then between living a good Christian life as a white Protestant--almost like blacks inhabited another world--and that as long as you did good deeds in your own community, what the menfolk did in the dark of night away from your secure home was irrelevant, or at least not discussed openly.

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