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Ivy League professor calls God a 'racist' after Zimmerman verdict
FoxNews.com ^ | 7/16/2013

Posted on 07/17/2013 4:36:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

An Ivy League professor blogged after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin that the verdict shows God is a “white racist” who stalks “young black men.”

Anthea Butler, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Religious Studies, made the unusual comments in a blog post released on Monday on ReligionDispatches.org, where she is a regular contributor.

“God ain’t good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us,” she wrote in the post. “As a black woman in an [sic] nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god.

“As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men,” she added.

Butler adds that Trayvon Martin’s killing was the result of racism that was influenced by Christianity.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: religion; trayvon; zimmerman
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Just when you think it couldn't get any more bizarre.
1 posted on 07/17/2013 4:36:05 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m going to bet that this college professor can’t read cursive.


2 posted on 07/17/2013 4:37:54 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: RoosterRedux

God must be some kind of comedian to make this person an associate professor at an university.


3 posted on 07/17/2013 4:39:32 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto
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To: RoosterRedux

Huh? Some very educated people are very stupid.


4 posted on 07/17/2013 4:41:02 AM PDT by D Rider
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To: RoosterRedux

Insane. Period.


5 posted on 07/17/2013 4:41:20 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: RoosterRedux
feh...
6 posted on 07/17/2013 4:41:32 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: RoosterRedux

she gits her inalienable rights from the gubmint


7 posted on 07/17/2013 4:41:58 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: RoosterRedux

How much do students pay to go to Penn and listen to stuff like this from this sow?


8 posted on 07/17/2013 4:42:13 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’ve personally never considered UPenn an Ivy League school. But then again, they have all turned into cesspools.


9 posted on 07/17/2013 4:42:27 AM PDT by AdamBomb
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To: RoosterRedux
‘There is a huge emotional and practical difference between accepting life wholly and heartily or only grudgingly and in part’.

William James

These whiners need to get off dead center... how many decades has it been now that Affirmative Action has been in effect in the US? We should hold your hand into perpetuity?

Quit whining and get off your a%$-lose the chip on your shoulder and GET A LIFE!

10 posted on 07/17/2013 4:44:10 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: RoosterRedux

It just goes to prove what idiots these Ivy league colleges hire.

None of us know much about God I suppose but we can all tell a black racist when we hear one.

This is an example of what is teaching America’s youth.


11 posted on 07/17/2013 4:44:24 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: AdamBomb
they have all turned into cesspools.

Just the latest to float to the top:


12 posted on 07/17/2013 4:44:38 AM PDT by Errant
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To: RoosterRedux

and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god.

God is. He is not this or that, he just IS.
You consider reproduction a right. Maybe God considers it a responsibility. Maybe you should consider that in your studies.


13 posted on 07/17/2013 4:45:36 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: RoosterRedux

Oh please, if G-d was a White racist - there would simply be no Black people. Isn’t that easy to understand?


14 posted on 07/17/2013 4:48:26 AM PDT by nolongerademocrat ("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
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To: RoosterRedux

Great. Encourage all of the Democrat constituents to reject God and let’s see how fast we can get this nation destroyed. You folks are geniuses.


15 posted on 07/17/2013 4:49:10 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: RoosterRedux

***When the good Christians of America are some of its biggest racists, one has to consider our moral responsibility to call out those who clearly are not for human flourishing, no matter what ethnicity a person is. Where are you on that scale? I know where I am.****

Well yes from your ranting we know where you are at also. You are an extreme black racist........


16 posted on 07/17/2013 4:49:29 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
(from the article) ~"“As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men,” she added. "

I am willing to bet that God may rebuke her !!
are we not ,"all his children" ?
Teaches in the Deparment of Reigious studies : I think she needs to study more, and get her head out of her butt , and see the light
before the only light she sees is a colonoscopy camera
which has stensiled across the top: " SMILE" !!

SOCIALISM is like a colonoscopy without medication or a lubricant
You can't wait until it's over !!
and you never forget !!

17 posted on 07/17/2013 4:50:38 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.” - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Errant

Is she wearing an old costume from Mork and Mindy in that picture?

She looks like she is overcome by the sound of wet grass.


18 posted on 07/17/2013 4:51:49 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: RoosterRedux

It is democrat party policy that is stalking young black men.

Destroy the family and thereby make the family wholly dependent upon government to survive. Of course they will vote democrat, it puts food on the table. It is a form of slavery.


19 posted on 07/17/2013 4:59:29 AM PDT by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Fox is being kind to her, here is the original title and place where her article was discovered.

“The Zimmerman Acquittal: America’s Racist God”

http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/antheabutler/7195/the_zimmerman_acquittal__america_s_racist_god/

And on another source here is a different picture of Butler:

http://www.campusreform.org/img/CROBlog/20130715/Butler.jpg


20 posted on 07/17/2013 4:59:40 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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