Posted on 04/03/2015 2:49:00 PM PDT by drewh
Christianitys tent is not big enough to accommodate both the supporters of Indianas Religious Freedom Restoration Act and Rutgers professor Brittney Cooper, who in a Wednesday piece for Salon blasted both the states 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 dont 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 isnt the God that I serve He might be biblical but hes 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 Coopers 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 wont 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, doesnt 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 dont 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 isnt the God that I serve He might be biblical but hes 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.
Classic hate filled Biatch.
Take a look at her picture. This woman doesn’t have the intellectual horsepower to control her own body. She claims to be an academic”? What Academy? Sorry, I ain’t buying anything she is selling.
Let me guess: Amish?
Her boobs are bigger than her head. And her mouth is bigger than her boobs.
Rutgers Professor:Worships a Fictional A**Hole God of Her Own Supremacy.
Rutgers Professor Worships a Fictional A**Hole God of Her Own Supremacy.
Jesus was right-wing. He was for the Ten Commandments and Matrimony according to the natural law.
It is cant to say that Jesus was “neither right-wing nor left-wing.”
The “right-wing” consists of people who have deliberately and consciously chosen to uphold what Jesus taught. This is what makes Jesus “right-wing.”
The Left consists of those people who have chosen to wage revolution against God and the natural moral order.
Fat Rutgers professor worships jelly donuts.
He's not Biblical, but that isn't going to stop a God hater.
Honestly, the images some of these people put forth, if I thought God is what they think He's like, I wouldn't want to serve Him either.
Fortunately, they are all washed up. They should try the REAL God of the Bible, not some fictitious creation of their own twisted imagination.
Your tax dollars at work.
> I am personally reaching the end of my patience. Where we go from here I do not know.
Don’t let it bother you. Just laugh and jeer at the imbeciles. That will really put the slobbering fools over the edge.
It would be like complaining that Jesus never talked about marrying your pet cat!
Anyhow, He did talk about Sodom and Gomorrah.
You mean Jesus didn’t go swaggering around saying Make My Day, Punks?
Trouble is there is a secular “right wing” which disproves that thesis. If it can stand without Christ then it does not need Christ and the world can gin it up.
There are some unbelievers among “right-wingers.” But “conservatism” is Christian.
Either way, Im not liking where this is heading, but Im at the point that direct confrontation is better than the pussyfooting that has been going on for too long.
As we get closer to His return, it will continue to dial up. Satan senses he is getting prepped for his last toot and will go on the attack like never before experienced by Men.
There will be blood and most will be instigated by the "Dark Side of the Left" but the .05% that is started by someone on the Right (or by someone on the Left who is setting the Right up) will be what makes the headlines....
Sorry, the moment you allow that one unbeliever is conservative, you have given up your claim.
Nonsense. I didn’t say that conservatism is Christianity. I said that conservatism is Christian.
Conservatism is those political convictions that follow from Christianity. A person can hold those political convictions without believing in Christianity.
Not only are you wrong, it is impossible to see why it is important to you to be right.
You know hating other Christians Is equal to murdering them right, Brittney. I’’m not seeing much in the way of the fruits of the spirit on display either. What about the Golden Rule?
Brittney doesn’t appear to read her bible much...i’ll lay bet’s she a twice a year Christian that shows up for Easter and Christmas...
I don’t think Brittney has read these verses:
Proverbs 6:16-19
16 There are six things the Lord hates.
In fact, he hates seven things.
17 The Lord hates proud eyes,
a lying tongue,
and hands that kill those who aren’t guilty.
18 He also hates hearts that make evil plans,
feet that are quick to do evil,
19 any witness who pours out lies,
and anyone who stirs up family fights.
and...
Gal. 5:22-23
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.”
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