After the Confederate statues come down, activist Shaun King tweeted Monday, "the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down."
"They are a form of white supremacy," he said. "Tear them down." And tear down all the "murals and stained-glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends," too, King added. If my napkin math — on the number of Christian congregations in America and the proportion of those whose buildings likely include whitewashed depictions of Jesus — is correct, King's iconoclasm amounts to a call to vandalize the majority of the houses of worship in the United States.
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