Reason for the laziness of all Christians, though preeminently White American Christianity, not just agrarian primitivist radical protestantism

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Flannery O’Conner

(Added on that is the shame that American White protestantism - so brutalizing in its bigotries -still needs to defend itself against: unconscious guilt signaled by subconscious anxiety, resulting in avoidance of truths and reflection on truths. An ultimate, existential masochistic denial of God's love in our life.)

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