Opinion | Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious. Here's why.

So the basic premise is that 150 years ago, folks that owned slaves used their faith to justify a clearly immoral action as the "natural order of things", thus assuaging or even encouraging them to continue the practice. And somehow, those attitudes and roots persist, especially among evangelical denominations, thus perpetuating institutional racism.

Some thoughts:
1. Most evangelical denominations came into being well AFTER slavery as an institution ended. My denomination for example came into being in 1908 in California. I think evangelicals are being specifically cited in this story because they tend to overwhelmingly support Trump - and the point of this story is to attack that base, albeit indirectly.
2. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there are not a lot of Christians out their burning down businesses and courthouses. I'll bet you would find a high proportion of atheists, though.
3. I do not subscribe to the theory that my European ancestry or faith somehow encodes me with the belief that I am somehow superior. I believe this is a learned trait, taught by parents or society that the minority parts of town were "bad" or "high crime". Sometimes the data supports this opinion, sometimes it doesn't. Data is often in the eye of the beholder. What I know is that there was universal revulsion at what happened to George Floyd, and what is happening now (at least the part that we're talking about) has nothing to do with that incident.

Thank you for the share from NBC news sir.

Can anyone find the method of the study on which this is based? Went to reference link but could not find survey questions, # of people in study, or method of selecting respondents.