My uncle takes an entitled religious bigot to Sunday School

So for reference I'm a 28 year old woman and this happened when I was 14 if I'm remembering correctly. So first off let me paint a picture of my uncle to help you picture things more clearly.

My uncle was and still is a 6'4 roughly 200 lbs corn fed country boy and built like a brick outhouse, As well as being blonde haired and blue eyed. In short he looks like Hitler's wet dream of how the Aryans should look.

Now my uncle isn't a religious man but he does practice and live by certain Christian ideals. Such as "love thy neighbor" and "judge not lest ye be judged" to name a couple. At the time this happened I was spending some time with him as we hadn't seen one another in awhile.

See, my uncle happens to live in a small predominantly white farming town in the Midwestern USA. But the people that live there are some of the nicest and most accepting people you'll ever meet. They don't care about your race, sexuality, or any of that. They only want to get along.

I remember we were headed to the local fleet store (basically a hardware store) and in front of the store was a man dressed in a black suit with slicked back hair standing beside a home made sign(I don't remember what the sign said) and was attempting to pass out fliers. And he was shouting all manner of hateful,bigoted,and downright horrible things about anyone that wasn't a straight white Christian man.

My uncle simply ignored the mans ramblings and we went inside to get what he needed. As we walked out the man tried to give my uncle a flier but he just took it, crumpled it up, and tossed it aside without looking at it. The following conversation took place and keep in mind this is what was said verbatim.

Bigot: Tell me sir do you know what the most disgusting and revolting thing in all of creation is?

Uncle: You?

Bigot: Mingling, co-mingling. You see god likes purity not mingling. And this being the greatest country on earth we must push for purity!

Uncle: You talk a whole lotta sh*t don't you friend?

Bigot: You must understand sir us whites are under attack!

Uncle: We are?

Bigot: Yes sir! All the other races are out to get us! And I don't plan on dieing.

Uncle: I have friends that are black, Hispanic, Asian, and even white. Hell a few of them friends is even gay. I've met good white people and I've met bad white people. And above all else, dumb white people.

Bigot:You sir are a proper fool. How can you possibly believe in equality!?!? You hear that!?!? This man believes we are all races are equal!!

Uncle: What did you just call me?

Bigot: I said you are a fool!

Uncle: This coming from the man who clearly doesn't know that the man who aided Jesus in carrying that cross was a black man. And another thing, Jesus was not a white man like you or me. Nor was he black. I don't know what his skin color was but it must've been a dark color like the people of his day because he was a man them.

And don't you forget another thing! Jesus belongs to Africa just as much as he does to Europe and Asia. Don't you EVER say that it's a white man's religion or black man's religion. It is a world religion, Jesus belongs to the world!

At this point unbeknownst to me or my uncle a crowd had gathered and erupted in applause at the impromptu sermon my uncle had delivered. The bigot tried to rally people to his side but everyone just cursed and shouted at him to leave. A few people even went so far as to knock over and stomp on his sign, knock the fliers from his hands, and hit him a few times.

Needless to say he was chased off and my uncle received quite a bit of praise for what he did.

Posted May 4, 2022, 2:03 AM UTC

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