In some circles, the term "Christ" seems to function as a code word for white nationalism disguised as Christianity. To genuinely confess Jesus as messiah is to insist that his politics, his way of being in the world, goes. That his teachings are rightly pursued as normative.
Otherwise, "Christ" is a secret handshake b/w bigots, b/w those in the know concerning "our faith," "our values," as Bill Barr & @VP & @SecondLady might put it. This "Christ" has nothing to say on the extrajudicial killing of black people & the devastation of the natural world.
When someone claims to know "Christ" (or imply that someone else doesn't), is it a reference to the #BelovedCommunity of Jesus and the prophets or a handy bit of #FaithLaundering for our military industrial entertainment incarceration complex?
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Thanks to @scott_m_coley's new book #MinistersOfPropaganda, I'm old enough to remember when @albertmohler told Larry King that Harriet Tubman's unwillingness to submit to enslavement was unbiblical & that our inability to recognize it is because of "popular culture."
Folks hopping on the internet to ask me to do their googling for them *and* to let me know that @albertmohler of @sbts repudiated his #HarrietTubman #PopularCulture has been a learning experience. Join @scott_m_coley in mulling the question of how & why Dr. Mohler felt trapped.
Meanwhile, I'm also learning a lot about who, in my circles, defers to men like @LigonDuncan & @drmoore & @davidafrench & @douglaswils & @JohnPiper & @johnmacarthur on essential questions. It has me shook.
@JesterWootton @THEmattlaff @AnnaCaudill4 Y'all know this song?
@AnnaCaudill4 @JesterWootton @THEmattlaff I have no doubt that Tim was bullied himself. But "victim" might not be a helpful word for describing someone who, I'm told, tried to talk #PublicServant44 out of legalizing same-sex marriage. And yet, maybe he was doing someone else's bidding. 2/x
.@SkyeJethani, I don’t know if all your replies are visible to you, but this one (from @brownandpinkdot) is especially worth processing. Please share it with @philvischer & @DavidAFrench & your team @HolyPostPodcast before weighing in further. There are real people out here. 1/
76: "He called them together along with the workers in related trades and said, 'You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.'" Acts 19:25
77: #ChristianSupremacy has a nasty habit of claiming authority over other people’s experience in the name of values & systems. Once I decree my experience “the Christian value system,” I can play Saruman on all day.