ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines how imperial mission Christianity has exerted a corrosive impact on the nature of Christianity and Christian discipleship in Britain. This chapter builds on the analysis of chapter 1 in detailing how the subterranean construct of Whiteness and its concomitant sense of privilege, entitlement and superiority has shaped how White British Christianity has reinforced notions of manifest destiny and exceptionalism. This chapter details how imperial mission Christianity has corrupted the existential realities of those who identify as White in the body politic of the nation. So Whiteness and notions of English superiority have created a critical disjunction between those who are identified as insiders and belonging and those who are seen out outsiders and perceived as problematic. The near-silence of the Church in response to Brexit was largely due to Christianity being implicated in and receiving benefited from this form of binary between insiders and outsiders. This chapter shows how this binary between insiders and outsiders was often the fuel that sparked the missionary movements, seeking to convert those deemed as outsiders into the respectable clones of the insiders.
