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Catholic University Speaker: ‘Crucify Whiteness,’ Embrace ‘Hopelessness,’ ‘Ethically Lie’
The College Fix ^ | 4/1/22 | Katelynn Richardson

Posted on 04/07/2022 6:24:50 PM PDT by marshmallow

‘The job I try to accomplish in my writings is to try to get people to embrace the hopelessness and realize we have nothing to lose,’ Professor Miguel De La Torre said

Carlow University recently hosted an event on “Rejecting White Christianity” that featured a speaker who argued white people should “crucify their whiteness,” called for the embrace of “hopelessness,” and urged people to “ethically lie” to make right for past wrongs.

The speech prompted a Catholic watchdog group to protest the event as antithetical to the Pittsburgh-based private Catholic university’s identity.

The March 3 event was sponsored by Carlow’s Atkins Center for Ethics and featured Miguel De La Torre, professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.

De La Torre began his presentation by lambasting evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump, according to a video of the speech.

“When eight out of ten white evangelicals voted for a person who is completely against everything Christianity stands for, I don’t know what Christianity they are practicing,” he said. “But I want nothing to do with that Christianity.”

He then distinguished “white theology and ethics” from “Latinx ethics” and noted that the term white does not refer to skin pigmentation but is an “ontological concept.”

“Those of us who are colored, some of us can also be white. But the good news is there is salvation,” he said. Later, he explained that this salvation means “we [who are colored] have to crucify our colonized minds, and for our white brothers and sisters, they need to crucify their whiteness.”

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1 posted on 04/07/2022 6:24:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow
white people should “crucify their whiteness,”

How about if I do that a week from Friday? Can I keep it eternally in glory if it comes back by Sunday?

2 posted on 04/07/2022 6:31:12 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of the Devil...-Churchill)
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To: marshmallow

Kind of surprised he didn’t outright call for White people to just commit suicide. But then asking you to “crucify your whiteness” and “embrace hopelessness” is basically the same idea.


3 posted on 04/07/2022 6:32:29 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: marshmallow

Why don’t I don’t recall any nuns teaching me this nonsense in elementary school?


4 posted on 04/07/2022 6:33:54 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: marshmallow

Lying is a tool of the devil, the father of lies. You cannot serve God by using the devil’s tools.


5 posted on 04/07/2022 6:34:36 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: rbg81

I don’t think Obama, Xiden or the Clintons are Christian, nor do I believe you can be a Christian and vote for the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow and the KKK.


6 posted on 04/07/2022 6:36:35 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

You got that right.


7 posted on 04/07/2022 6:53:00 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: No name given

Absolutely 100% that anybody who believes with full authority in the party platform values of the Democrat Party is not a Christian.

And attempting to justify those values will send them deeper to hell.

They all have a depraved mind of Romans 1.


8 posted on 04/07/2022 6:53:03 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: marshmallow

Is this guy the illustration for Cray-Kray in the dictionary?


9 posted on 04/07/2022 6:56:11 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: marshmallow
“Those of us who are colored, some of us can also be white. But the good news is there is salvation,” he said.

That must be an example of the lying he is recommending.

10 posted on 04/07/2022 6:56:53 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: marshmallow
I will neither glorify nor crucify my "whiteness".I demand to be judged not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character.

End of discussion.

11 posted on 04/07/2022 7:03:58 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: marshmallow

No words to describe my anger.


12 posted on 04/07/2022 7:05:48 PM PDT by hoe_cake
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To: Gay State Conservative

well said.


13 posted on 04/07/2022 7:06:32 PM PDT by hoe_cake
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To: hoe_cake

Actually after having hit “submit” I regretted having not said “I fully expect my Creator to judge me not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character...and soul”.


14 posted on 04/07/2022 7:12:06 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Balloting)
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To: rbg81

Let him say that to all the white dems ,starting with Biden


15 posted on 04/07/2022 7:19:50 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: marshmallow

I’m not surprised that someone who is professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado would take this position. I am surprised that he is a Southern Baptist minister.


16 posted on 04/07/2022 7:23:22 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: marshmallow

What’s with the level of crazy coming out of Catholicism these days?


17 posted on 04/07/2022 7:35:29 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: marshmallow

The catholic church deserves all the abuse it’s getting and more. What a pathetic, gutless, groveling, self-loathing institution it has become!


18 posted on 04/07/2022 7:38:09 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Gay State Conservative; hoe_cake

“I demand to be judged not by the color of my skin but by the content of my character.”

How are you going to enforce your demand, especially alone?

You can demand whatever you want, they’ll judge you by the color of your skin because it’s one of their best weapons.

The longer whites wait to defend their identity and fail to recognize the common interest of their group, the way blacks, Asians and Latinos do for theirs, the more they’ll keep stomping on us.

Whites have contributed 90% of what we call civilization, and we should be rightly proud of that.

We need to unite and organize to defend our group’s common interests and not be a bunch of inept armies of one.


19 posted on 04/07/2022 7:56:17 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: marshmallow

Sounds like a MARXIST, anti-white “liberation theology” fool.


20 posted on 04/08/2022 1:16:49 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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