Racial Prejudice
Alport who created the intrinsic and extrinsic religious orientation systems also discussed the correlation between specific churches and racial prejudices, which he called the Grand Paradox. According to studies conducted in 1940’s and 1950’s, racial prejudice was the strongest among churchgoers, which is strange because the bible says to love all people. After further research, he divided the church attenders into two separate groups, one was consistent and the other was infrequent or “hit and miss”. Allport discovered that racial prejudice was the highest in the “hit and miss attenders”. Racial Prejudice seems to have some fundamental similarities, even comparing modern racism to the crusades. One type of fundamentalism is the concept that