Posted on 04/03/2015 2:49:00 PM PDT by drewh
Christianity’s tent is not big enough to accommodate both the supporters of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Rutgers professor Brittney Cooper, who in a Wednesday piece for Salon blasted both the state’s pre-fix RFRA and the religious right in general.
“This kind of legislation is rooted in a politics that gives white people the authority to police and terrorize people of color, queer people and poor women,” declared Cooper. “That means these people don’t represent any kind of Christianity that looks anything like the kind that I practice…This white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus of the religious right is a god of their own making. I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy...This God isn’t the God that I serve…He might be ‘biblical’ but he’s also an asshole.”
Cooper argued that left-wing Christians “need to reclaim the narrative of Jesus’ life and death” from Christian conservatives, who “have not been good stewards over the narrative. They have pimped Jesus’ death to support the global spread of American empire vis-à-vis war, ‘missions,’ and ‘free trade,’ the abuse of native peoples, the continued subjugation of Black people, and the regulation of the sexual lives of women and gay people. Let us mark this Holy Week by declaring the death to the unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy. And once these systems die, may they die once and for all, never to be resurrected.”
From Cooper’s article (bolding added):
Any time right-wing conservatives declare that they are trying to restore or reclaim something, we should all be very afraid. Usually, this means the country or, in this case, the state of Indiana is about to be treated to another round of backward time travel, to the supposedly idyllic environs of the 1950s, wherein women, and gays, and blacks knew their respective places and stayed in them...
…[G]iven our current anti-Black racial climate, there is no reason to trust that these laws won’t be eventually used for acts of racially inflected religious discrimination…
…This kind of legislation is largely driven by conservative Christian men and women, who hold political views that are antagonistic to every single group of people who are not white, male, Christian, cisgender, straight and middle-class. Jesus, a brown, working-class, Jew, doesn’t even meet all the qualifications…
…[T]his kind of legislation is rooted in a politics that gives white people the authority to police and terrorize people of color, queer people and poor women. That means these people don’t represent any kind of Christianity that looks anything like the kind that I practice…
I often ask myself whether I really do worship the same God of white religious conservatives…[Jesus] never found time to even mention gay people, let alone condemn them. His message of radical inclusivity was so threatening that the state lynched him for fear that he was fomenting a cultural and political rebellion…
…This white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus of the religious right is a god of their own making. I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy...
AD FEEDBACK This God isn’t the God that I serve…He might be “biblical” but he’s also an asshole.
The Jesus I know…was a radical, freedom-loving, justice-seeking, potentially queer (because he was either asexual or a priest married to a prostitute), feminist healer…seduced neither by power nor evil…
…We need to reclaim the narrative of Jesus’ life and death from the evangelical right. They have not been good stewards over the narrative. They have pimped Jesus’ death to support the global spread of American empire vis-à-vis war, “missions,” and “free trade,” the abuse of native peoples, the continued subjugation of Black people, and the regulation of the sexual lives of women and gay people. Let us mark this Holy Week by declaring the death to the unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy. And once these systems die, may they die once and for all, never to be resurrected.
If this professor had called the God of Muslims an a**hole, right now she would probably be sitting in the administration building with her lawyer, the university president, and the university’s legal counsel, discussing the terms of her dismissal.
So blond whites are presumed racist? And who are these alleged racists and what did they say that was racist?
The United States is coming to an end.
On January 22, 1973, Brent Bozell, Jr., declared that the U.S. government had ceased to be legitimate. He was absolutely correct. We have all been living through the working out of the consequences of the illegitimacy of the U.S. government.
It is none of Brittney’s business who I worship, how I worship, or where I worship. I do know she is the government/state.
How few seem to get this simple truth about their God-given right and freedom to choose and how many have been deceived into relinquishing their freedom because of some influential person’s dislike and derogatory use of the word “discrimination” 50 years ago and its subsequent unconstitutional federal codification.
You’re one of the few that gets it.
At this point, the Constitution is virtually a dead letter, and the final nail in the coffin will be the upcoming declaration of gay marriage as a constitutional right. All that will remain of the Constitution will be the procedural formalities governing federal elections. And some day, progressives may claim that we have “evolved” beyond even THOSE formalities.
Black people are subjugated? Who knew...Women are still able to kill their offspring!!! Gay people are the new minority with special rights and privileges...
Let us mark this Holy Week by declaring the death to the unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy. And once these systems die, may they die once and for all, never to be resurrected.”
unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy.
...As opposed to the trinity of black nationalism, socialism, and gays running the church ?
This progressive wacko is in for some surprise when the progressive left actually succeed in their culture war agenda..
Being an ugly Black hostile woman, she probably got her PhD via intimidation of her profs and deans.
Seems to be what drives a lot of things these day. Inflammatory one-liners and sound bites.
A downside of the "age of instant world-wide communication" is the increasing power of demagoguery.
"We will destroy the system by refusing to be controlled by it. We are not planning a revolution. Our lives are the revolution.",
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2015/04/this-culture-war-were-in.html
Well worth the read...then read it again...
…[G]iven our current anti-Black racial climate, there is no reason to trust that these laws won’t be eventually used for acts of racially inflected religious discrimination…IOW, Rand Paul will have a photo-op with this academagogue in a matter of days.
I am really getting tired of these atheist bitYchs.
I’m not a christian, I’m a Buddhist, but I sure
would prefer a christian over these communist agitators
any day of the week.
Uh oh...sounds like the jesus (small 'j') she knows goes by other names as well, such as beelzebub, satan, devil, molek, baal, lucifer,... Funny how the rabid, progressive, state-of-the-art lefties are journeying back in time and resorting to Christian persecution tactics that are 2000 years old. Maybe they are descendants from herod, nero, caligula, pilate, etc., OR maybe it is just that they have the same spirit father, but in any case, news flash lefty, libbie, pinko, progressive, fascist, socialist commies, those tactics failed then and will fail now.
That and those who try to put forth that Jesus was ‘homeless’. They think we are too stupid to see the differences. Either that or they really ARE to stupid to see the differences.
Well, the photo only confirmed what I expected, that being that she is black. However, I now know that she is morbidly obese and Black.
Affirmative-action faux-professor with a huge chip on her shoulder. Such is the caliber of academic rigor in these times. What a waste of student/parent money. I can’t imagine having to sit through one of her “classes”.
The erection of monumental buildings in Washington, D.C., was a big mistake, because the vast majority of people attribute the government’s legitimacy to the fact that it is housed in impressive buildings.
After Roe v. Wade, the USSC building should have been leveled, and the lot turned into a parking lot. The Court should have been assigned some offices in Southeast Washington, with dropped ceilings and buzzing fluorescent lights.
If it is necessary to tear down the White House, and put the President in a hotel, in order to put the Presidency back in its place, I say, DO IT!
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