Those who profess Christianity as the worldwide religion and yet justify the operation of a color line disprove and discredit their pretension…

Those who profess Christianity as the worldwide religion and yet justify the operation of a color line disprove and discredit their pretension. If Christianity is to be a biological religion, it cannot be universal. The ideal of Christianity is that all of its devotees, regardless of ethnic deviation, are baptised in one spirit. Spiritual kinship transcends all other relations among men. Unless Christianity can overcome the color line, the universality of its claim will be discredited, and the world must still repeat the query propounded by the rugged teacher of righteousness to his august relative and rival.

Kelly Miller, “The Mulatto in the United States. by Edward Byron Reuter—Review by: Kelly Miller,” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 25, Number 2 (Sep., 1919). 224.

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