Did the Church HELP or HINDER the Liberation of Black People? | John Gleason & BAR
May 7, 2026
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Sam from Georgia calls in to say the Black church was a community organizing tool the way MLK did. But hosts John and Bar systematically dismantle every pillar of his case. Bar points out that enslaved Africans organized through the church only because it was the only place they were permitted to gather — not because Christianity drove their liberation. The Haitian Revolution offers the counter-proof: non-Christian enslaved Africans still fought and won. John exposes the church's conditional community with a viral TikTok experiment showing churches turning away a mother in need of baby formula.
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