What does Malcolm X think is wrong with what Christians preach about heaven?

Answer 1

Malcolm X came to believe that Christians, especially those who championed segregation, promoted the subjugation of black people. The traditional white southern churches taught that segregation was necessary, and white supremacy was God's will; a black person who accepted a subordinate position would perhaps suffer on earth, but gain a heavenly reward. That outraged Malcolm X, who believed, as Louis Farrakhan did, that "the white man's heaven is the black man's hell." Malcolm X rejected Christian doctrine because he saw it as encouraging racism. If the only way a black person could get to heaven was by obediently accepting a subservient role, that seemed to him as if churches were preaching injustice and inequality. Thus, he said that Christianity was a "white man's religion," with a white hierarchy and no opportunity for the black man (or woman) to be treated as an equal.