Thread by @frodofied

*a private christian college

The idea that God or Jesus, or the fucking Buddha even, would disapprove of a man protesting injustice makes a mockery of Christian theology and practice.

Jesus Christ protested everything.

He protested against the money changers in the temple.

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https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1037932992465915904

He protested the mistreatment of the poor, the infirm, and social outcasts.

He protested against hunger.

Jesus Christ resisted it all.

I'm no longer an affiliated Christian. But I spent the first 15 years of my life as a devout Christian, first in the Catholic tradition.
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Later I would be baptized, not necessarily by choice, into the Protestant sect of Baptist.

My background means I am quite familiar with Christian texts and have even studied the extant works of many great Christian thinkers.

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But you do not need any in depth knowledge of any Christian text to know that this decision has nothing to do with Christian theology, the school's relationship with God, or with any higher moral purpose.

This is the school rendering unto Caesar what is not Caesar's.

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In this case Caesar is an Orange Buffoon who they have made into their new golden calf. He is their false God, & they idolize him.

The Orange Buffoon has proclaimed that @Kaepernick7Zero is wrong and so they have accepted this as gospel.

They are being led astray.

At best

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At worst this is just a cynical political ploy by the school administration meant to inspire the attention and approval of a the man who would be king.

And it would have nothing to do with God.

Which, of course, is exactly what's going.

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A God's love, if it exists at all, exists for humanity as a whole and for the individual. It is not given to borders or nations.

So, small christian college, your manufactured outrage gives itself away.

You are fooling no one.

Careful, your patriotism looks a lot like racism.