I’m creeped out that legos has a bible themed set. That’s weird and sacrilegious.
The word has gone out.
so what is the trouble?
How can we rip them if we are clueless of what we are ripping them for?
OK, I guess we are supposed too believe God cares about your skin color.
Hm, new to me.
Problematic that these idiots want to look at scripture through the racist lens, because throughout Ancient History, Roman, Greek, whatever, nobody really cared about race. The only ‘racists’ were the Greeks because they called everybody who wasn’t Greek a barbarian.
Racism really only took off with the coming of Dialectical Materialism.
My university was demanding we lecturers come up with themed lessons to do with Black History Month. (The Academic Director is pretty woke, an surprisingly, us faculty are not, for a Bay-Area college.
Needless to say, we all blew off that request.
So we were given a laundry list of things to do. More Bullshit tasks incoming, no doubt.
Acts 8:26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south[a] to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place. 27 And he rose and went. And there was an Ethiopian, a eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure. He had come to Jerusalem to worship 28 and was returning, seated in his chariot, and he was reading the prophet Isaiah. 29 And the Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and join this chariot.” 30 So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?” 31 And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. 32 Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this:
“Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter
and like a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he opens not his mouth.
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In his humiliation justice was denied him.
Who can describe his generation?
For his life is taken away from the earth.”
34 And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. 36 And as they were going along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “See, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”[b] 38 And he commanded the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him. 39 And when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord carried Philip away, and the eunuch saw him no more, and went on his way rejoicing. 40 But Philip found himself at Azotus, and as he passed through he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.
Here, ask yourself how this would sound if White were substituted for Black and if both race-consciousness fosters racism:
Bread for the Resistance: 40 Devotions for Justice People Sometimes it’s tiring doing this thing called justice—making the case, fighting the fight, and repeatedly explaining why it matters. You feel burned out or disillusioned. Sometimes you just need a word from the Lord. In these daily devotions, Donna Barber offers life-giving words of renewal and hope for those engaged in the resistance to injustice.
Prophetic Rage: A Postcolonial Theology of Liberation In this book, Johnny Bernard Hill argues that prophetic rage, or righteous anger, is a necessary response to our present culture of imperialism and nihilism.
After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times)
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Mobile Ed: CS251 History and Theology of the African American Church (7 hour course)
I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
To Grow & Learn from the Black Christian Voice https://www.logos.com/black-history-month
Rather than making people race conscious and fostering resentment and a distinctive class, God says,
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. (Colossians 3:8-13)
The guy who runs Faithlife used to work for Microsoft.
That might explain a lot.