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.
Say that to God’s face, you little snake.
BULLY! BULLY! BULLY!
Repent, Brittney, while you still can ...
May The Lord bless you abundantly with the grace of repentance and conversion.
That these individuals infest our higher education system is a national disgrace.
She just did.
What does the good Professor worship? Herself?
The Dark Side of the left is coming out in full force now. Either they think they have us on the ropes, or their desperate.
Either way, I’m not liking where this is heading, but I’m at the point that direct confrontation is better than the pussyfooting that has been going on for too long.
BOSSY! BOSSY! BOSSY!
They’re feeling quite bold of late...the long knives are out...I suspect it won’t be long now.
She is also probably another Palestinian supporting anti-Semite.
Jesus referred to marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Jesus endorsed heterosexual marriage and never mentioned homosexual “marriage” because it doesn’t exist.
These leftists lie all the time.
Brittney Cooper worships the god of the left. Baby Killer Jesus.
Individual moral views notwithstanding, freedom to choose ("discrimination") is our right, our privilege, and our duty.
MLK helped give discriminating (freedom to choose) a bad name. But we as individuals have every constitutional right to choose and discriminate however we want.
The only constitutional limitation on choosing or discriminating is prohibition of STATE SEGREGATION laws against blacks (14th Amendment).
There is NO constitutional limitation on individual discrimination AT ALL.
As far as the feds are concerned, a state can discriminate against gays or anyone else except blacks. It is up to the citizens of each state how they want to deal with their own freedom to choose or “discrimination.”
Well, I was talking more of a judgement Day situation, but technically you’re correct.
Me thinks she’s been influenced by Liberation Theology.
Next time He comes will be as King of Kings.
And He will not be mocked.
Agreed. They are completely losing it in a highly visible spitting hissy fit of vile filth. They are no threat to me because the UNARMED don’t get an opinion. The tantrum is all they got.
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