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Professor backs statement that God is racist, says ‘I have tenure. I can’t get fired’
Daily Caller ^
| 7/23/13
| Robby Soave
Posted on 07/24/2013 5:45:24 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Anthea Butler, the Ivy League religious studies professor who called God a white racist after the Trayvon Martin verdict last week, doubled down on her statement and denounced the conservative media outlets that criticized her.
Butler, an associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, wrote a blog post for Religious Dispatches last week arguing that most Americans worship a white racist god with a problem who is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.
As a historian of American and African-American religion, I know that the Trayvon Martin moment is just one moment in a history of racism in America that, in large part, has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history, she wrote.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: education; racism
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To: SoFloFreeper
fine..it may have tenure; what if she doesn't have a department to demagogue/spew..
defund it for six months, then reorganize it/calling it something different...
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:14:01 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :)
To: MrB
If she has tenure pretty much she’s good to go. Sad but true.
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posted on
07/24/2013 7:30:31 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Pollster1
Sideshow Bob's sister?
To: SoFloFreeper
Thank God I got a great institution that takes care of me, she said. I have tenure. I cant get fired.I've got that Ivy League EBT
and big fat housing subsidy.
They gave me a college PHD
so I can spew hateology.
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posted on
07/24/2013 8:28:46 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
(I believe in God. All else is dubious.)
To: SoFloFreeper
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posted on
07/24/2013 8:29:50 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Buying "Green" means purchasing inferior quality at increased cost.)
To: Georgia Girl 2
Until the board gets on the wrong side of her. Which it will.
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07/24/2013 3:44:02 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
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