Posted on 04/13/2022 4:38:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The First United Church of Oak Park is on a mission to end “racism, injustice, and violence,” and the strategy is exactly what you’d expect from ideologues of the America Left: more racism and hypocrisy.
Under the leadership of Reverend John Edgerton, the congregation has been “fasting from ‘whiteness’” in observance of Lent. According to the official press release:
Justice must be loved into existence. It is the only way. White people absolutely have a place in the redemption story. White people were even at the foot of the cross: they were the Roman guards. As white people we must love our Redeemer enough to put down our spears. We must love our redeemer more than our whiteness, and kneel before our redeemer who is a dark-skinned man from the poor parts of town.
In the contemporary political environment, racism is a prominent lens through which the Left views the culture and country; so it comes as no surprise that Edgerton’s statement is full of actual racism, making blanket (and false) generalizations about people based on their skin color. As history shows, the Roman soldiers at “the foot of the cross” were responsible for an egregious miscarriage of justice: an innocent man was put to death. For Edgerton to relegate the role of “white people” to that of a brutal oppressor is racist. But as a reverend, he is a learned man, and knows the tenets of Robin DiAngelo well, so his obsession with melanin goes on ad nauseam.
By now, Americans who still possess the ability to think are accustomed to living in a society of absurdity that accompanies modern liberalism; but the effrontery is still as outrageous as ever. Abstaining from “whiteness” is an effort to “lift up the voices of Black People,
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When will they begin fasting from gender conformity?
if the Left fasted 4o days from stupidity that would be a good start.
“But as a reverend, he is a learned man,...”
Another “educated” idiot.
In order to “fast from whiteness” one must adopt free-style ebonics. Anything else is fake.
That church could end idiocy by firing their pastor. It’s a start.
Actually, they were just acting as tools of "brown" religious people who didn't like their sinecures being disrupted.
And the soldiers most like originated from present day Italy, which is such a Latin country that they originated the Latin language. Two inconvenient truths.
Fortunately, Lent ended on Sunday.
He has many leather-bound books.
LOL
“In order to “fast from whiteness” one must adopt free-style ebonics.”
Also known as Jive Talkin’.
Never going to happen. The flock in that congregation are just as stupid as their leader.
Farrakhans kind of worship, one based on hatred and jealousy.
Good question.
So, I should throw down in a fast-food drive thru? Attack a middle school basketball ref or softball umpire?
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