The right’s made-up God: How bigots invented a white supremacist Jesus (The masks are coming off)

Salon ^ | April 1, 2015 | Professor Brittney Cooper

[2ndDivisionVet]

Have they moved too soon?

[Telepathic Intruder]

It’s as if everyone on the left now relies on conservatives to provide them with everything they want. And if they can’t give it to them, there’s no one else who can. And that’s terrible, isn’t it?

[piasa]

She’s managed to create a new straw man in vitually every paragraph.

[Unam Sanctam]

The masks are coming off alright. The Left’s hatred, racism, bigotry, and fascistic intolerance is plain for all to see.

[Girlene]

As a practicing Christian, ..................

......................I am heartened to say that there is a generation of young people of faith rising up, spurred on by the Ferguson events of last summer. A group of young seminarians at Union Theology Seminary in New York City have been at the fore of effort to #ReclaimHolyWeek. I spoke with one of the organizers, Candace Simpson, who told me that, “#ReclaimHolyWeek is a way for us to challenge and disrupt the sanitized stories we share during Holy Week. We refuse to pretend as though the main story of Jesus’ resurrection was that he ‘died for our sins.’ We need to be better in discussing the ways Jesus represented a threat to his empire, that his teachings disrupt power structures. We pretend that we would be mourning at his tomb, but it is clear in the ways we blame victims of the system that we are not as moral as we pretend to be.” They will spend this week protesting various forms of state-sanctioned violence against Black and Brown people.

Practicing Christian????

Her hatred of white Christian conservatives screams from her writing. Disgusting.

[piasa]

“Anti-black racial climate?”

The only thing I’ve seen is a bunch of leftists agitating black thugs to attack or even burn black-owned businesses and spread mayhem, in the hopes someone, preferably a lily white someone, would shoot a black rioter so the Democrats could have another funerally.

[Paladin2]

She certainly seems to have mastered nothing worth professing.

[dila813]

“Jesus represented a threat to his empire”

This lady is an idiot. Jesus’s empire was the Kingdom of God.

[screaming eagle2]

.....that is...Jesus’ empire Is the Kingdom of GOD

[RichInOC]

Lulz, no.

[Altura Ct.]

it's time to call the religious right's trash what it really is.

I'm all about calling things what they are. What shall we call you?

[RichInOC]

And I’d say that picture and bio is everything wrong with American higher education in one package, except no, there’s at least one of every color who’s just as craptastic.

[MagnoliaB]

“Of the many things Jesus preached about, he never found time to even mention gay people, let alone condemn them.”

Not exactly Toots. He didn’t have to mention gay people per se because of St. Matthew 5:17 “Think not that I come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfil.” In other words, the laws in the Old Testament stand so stop sinning, ask for forgiveness, don’t do it again and you will be forgiven. He came to fulfil the prophecy of Isaiah 7:14.

What an ignorant woman.

[Altura Ct.]

How bigots invented a white supremacist Jesus (The masks are coming off)

There it is.

What some folks have yet to understand. This is not a war against Christians per se. It is specifically a war against whites. Christians being proxy just as the whole Mike Brown fiasco is not a war against cops per se. It is a war against whites and 'the man'.

[ImNotLying]

There’s a lot of meat there that is going to burn in hell!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Professor Brittney? Really? ROTFL!

[fivecatsandadog]

To be clear, because I’m an academic, I get static often from folks who wonder how I could dare ally myself in name and religious affiliation with the kind of morally misguided, politically violent people who think it reasonable to force women to have babies they do not want and who think their opinions about whom and how others should marry matters even a little bit.

Obviously, she's one of the morally misguided and politically violent people who think it's reasonable for women to murder babies they do not want and to force their opinions on the rest of us about marriage between two morally misguided individuals of the same gender.

[ImNotLying]

My church welcomes sinners of all races, all genders, all sizes, all nationalities. And my pastor preaches that there is only ONE way into the Kingdom of Heaven. And I think we know what way that is. My church welcomes Brittany in hopes that she too would confess her sins, ask for forgiveness, and accept the one and only Jesus Christ as her personal savior into her life.

[fivecatsandadog]

She’s big enough to have more than one social security number.