{"id":6017,"date":"2008-11-08T11:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-08T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/racists-burn-cross-on-obama-su.html"},"modified":"2008-11-08T11:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T11:29:36","slug":"racists-burn-cross-on-obama-su","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/11\/racists-burn-cross-on-obama-su.html","title":{"rendered":"Racists burn cross on Obama supporter’s lawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

In NJ<\/a><\/em>!<\/p>\n

Acts of racism have popped up in parts of the tri-state area since Barack Obama was elected president on Tuesday night.
\nIn the latest, a family who had supported Obama’s campaign emerged from their home in the northwestern New Jersey town of Hardwick Thursday morning to find the charred remnants of a 6-foot wooden cross on their front lawn.
\nPieces of a homemade bed-sheet banner reading “President Obama — Victory ’08,” which had been stolen from the yard the night before, also were found, leading investigators to believe the banner had been wrapped around the cross before it was set afire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is so annoying to me that these racists have taken the symbol of Christianity and used it to divide us along racial lines. Christ death on the cross demonstrated to us the love of God and his desire for reconciliation, to use it as a symbol of division among the races is absolutely a perversion and a rejection of the God who shows no partiality<\/a>, the God who created man in his image and who created as all through a single ancestor, so that we could all be one in Adam. We share a common bond that should cause all of us to pause in thinking that any one race is better than another. Christianity is unique in this view of God and man and it’s amazing that anyone could try to equate Christianity with racism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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