I say this as a Christian:
If fostering is the short term solution to keep separated children out of concentration camps, the children should be placed exclusively through non-Christian organizations, and there must be a reunification plan at the center of it.
If fostering is the short term solution to keep separated children out of concentration camps, the children should be placed exclusively through non-Christian organizations, and there must be a reunification plan at the center of it.
White American Christianity has been the single driving and energizing force of the political movement that promised to create this problem, and which has now created it, and we refuse to face that fact in any meaningful way.
White American Christianity has actively and purposefully allied ourselves with fascist state power in order to gain political power and protection through oppression of others, in order to practice charity exclusively in ways that do not offend our own comfort.
We White American Christians, we supported the movement that said they'd separate children.
Then that movement did it.
Then we mourn it.
Then we propose to be the ones to solve it.
Thus we launder our culpability.
Then we fundraise off it.
To hell with that, quite literally.
Then that movement did it.
Then we mourn it.
Then we propose to be the ones to solve it.
Thus we launder our culpability.
Then we fundraise off it.
To hell with that, quite literally.
There is no solution that doesn't center at all times reunification, and never gives up on reunification until it is achieved.
And there is no solution that can involve a religion that religiously energizes the problem, then benefits by positioning itself as the solution.
And there is no solution that can involve a religion that religiously energizes the problem, then benefits by positioning itself as the solution.
I've left my church of 18 years. It positions itself as progressive. It refuses to address the grave sin of republicanism. It insists on casting both political parties as equal in context of White American Christianity.
Either it's lost it's way, or I've found mine.
I'm out.
Either it's lost it's way, or I've found mine.
I'm out.
I am. And I’m including myself.
All white christians benefit from white christianity’s unjust political maneuvering, in ways that they cannot extract themselves.
If white christians want justice, the way we start is not by absolving ourselves, but by admitting this truth.
All white christians benefit from white christianity’s unjust political maneuvering, in ways that they cannot extract themselves.
If white christians want justice, the way we start is not by absolving ourselves, but by admitting this truth.
No. It’s not possible.
The solution for white christians is to admit the rot goes to the core. To turn over leadership to Christians from marginalized groups. And then to deliberately work against any policy that advantages white christians.
The solution for white christians is to admit the rot goes to the core. To turn over leadership to Christians from marginalized groups. And then to deliberately work against any policy that advantages white christians.
As many have pointed out, obviously fostering is not what we want in any event. We must insist on the end of this foul practice, and everything we do must be centered around reunification.
My only points around fostering are:
1) we need these children out of concentration camps while we seek their parents at whatever cost is necessary
2) but don’t you dare give to some christian adoption group that’s fundraising off of this.
1) we need these children out of concentration camps while we seek their parents at whatever cost is necessary
2) but don’t you dare give to some christian adoption group that’s fundraising off of this.
I don’t know what the solution is to faith based charities run by a religion that is politically creating the problem they propose to alleviate, for the love of God, or Allah, or spaghetti monster, or nothing, or whatever you believe in, don’t give money to them.
Let me say it again:
*All* white christians benefit from white christianity’s unjust political maneuvering, in ways that they cannot extract themselves.
If white christians want justice, the way we start is not by absolving ourselves, but by admitting this truth.
*All* white christians benefit from white christianity’s unjust political maneuvering, in ways that they cannot extract themselves.
If white christians want justice, the way we start is not by absolving ourselves, but by admitting this truth.
And neither the Catholics, nor LDS, nor Salvation Army (to name just the examples given) are w/o *massive* problems borne of amassing political power in order to practice charity exclusively in ways that do not offend their own social advantage and religious comfort.
