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*NOTE: Maybe an important reason for that difference -- between black and white churches, in the tendency to envision an "Angry God" -- is that the whites were required to identify with the powers above them, so that they would support the status quo. But the blacks --having been told that, while they were subject to the ruling system, they were emphatically not part of it -- were dealt with differently: rather than being enlisted (manipulated) to support that system, as were the subordinated whites, the blacks were coerced into submitting to it. One might imagine that whether or not one identifies with the oppressive power structure dominating the secular world in which one lives will influence one's likelihood of worshipping a wrathful God.
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