Yes, let's please not do this, Christians. If it doesn't seem like a big deal to you, please sit with that feeling rather than turning it into an argument.
I love Amazing Grace. It's one of my favorite Christian songs, but it is a Christian song, about a very Christian concept of salvation and really particularly about Christian conversion.
It's not a small thing to realize that something that gives you hope and joy and courage in the face of adversity sounds like a threat to people whose faith and culture aren't backed by cultural hegemony and empire.
It's not easy to come to terms with that after decades of not thinking about it, but. If we're serious about fighting Nazis, if we're serious about fighting anti-Semitism, if we're serious about fighting Christian supremacy... and we should be serious about all of those things...
...then that is part of the work we're called to do.
And if it's not easy to work through all that in a moment of collective grief and rage, you know what's easier?
Sitting on your hands until the urge to argue about it passes.
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