People Who Call Themselves Christians Often Know Nothing About Jesus — That’s Why They Attack Activists for Confronting an ICE Agent Masquerading as a Pastor. Jesus Entered the Temple and Confronted Corruption Too.

The issue I’m raising isn’t about biology or inherent traits. “Race” itself is a political invention, not a scientific category. But the political identity of whiteness — a category that has absorbed everyone from the Middle East to Iceland, from North Africa to Northern Europe — has produced a very specific worldview and set of behaviors across centuries.

Not every individual who identifies as white participates in this worldview, but the dominant culture built around whiteness has repeatedly shown patterns that cannot be ignored: denial of history, moral inconsistency, selective empathy, and a willingness to benefit from systems of violence while disavowing responsibility for them.

We see this contradiction everywhere. People who claim Christianity as their moral foundation often have no relationship to the teachings or actions of Jesus. They condemn activists who disrupt injustice, yet the Gospels themselves describe Jesus entering the temple and overturning the tables of those who exploited the vulnerable. You cannot call yourself a Christian and then denounce people for doing exactly what Christ did.

This is not new. For centuries, institutions built around whiteness have justified domination — from colonial extraction to lynching, from segregation to modern policing, from Iraq to ICE raids. And when these systems harm Black people, the response is silence or excuses. When they harm white people, suddenly the moral alarm bells ring. That selective humanity is the real crisis.

The point is not to demonize individuals. The point is to name a deep structural and cultural disorder — a worldview that normalizes domination, extraction, and moral double standards. If this is not confronted honestly, societies will keep cycling through violence, denial, and backlash.

Separation is not realistic. Our histories, families, and futures are intertwined. But coexistence without truth is impossible. Healing requires acknowledging the systems that deform people’s moral vision — not pretending everything is fine.

What happened in that church, with a pastor acting as an ICE enforcer, is not an anomaly. It is part of a long pattern where institutions that claim moral authority become instruments of state violence. And people who have never studied the teachings they claim to follow are shocked when others refuse to tolerate injustice.

This is the contradiction I’m naming: A political identity that preaches morality while practicing domination, that demands obedience while refusing accountability, that calls itself Christian while rejecting Christ’s example.

Until that contradiction is addressed, the cycle continues.