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29 Sep, 3 tweets, 1 min read
According to Cone: "Ontologically, blackness is a symbol of all oppressed people, and whiteness is the symbol of oppressors. Physiologically, black is the historical color of oppressed people, and white is the color of their oppressors." —S. D. Morrison

#JamesConeInPlainEnglish
"The ontological is universal, the physiological is particular, and they are dialectically connected. . . .
. . . In other words, we could also say that 'whiteness' is a mindset, and white skin is a physical trait that most often results in a mindset of whiteness. The two are not always the same, but white people often adopt whiteness by default."

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1 Oct
S. D. Morrison tackles the issue of #LawAndOrder in his book "James Cone In Plain English" in this paragraph: Image
#LawAndOrder was a theme of the #PresidentialDebate2020 last night that highlighted the brutality of police and the call for change.
James Cone taught me that "law and order" is code for white supremacy, and is a violent attack against oppressed people by an oppressive state. It is no wonder that Trump shouts "LAW & ORDER" and would not denounce white supremacy. Law and Order is means for oppression.
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29 Sep
"The harsh reality of Cones critique comes off as a total rejection of all white-skinned people, but this is to ignore the unique way he uses the term 'whiteness'." — S. D. Morrison

#JamesConeInPlainEnglish
Many white-skinned evangelicals have told me that Cone was racist towards white people. In reality, this response is intrinsically racist because of the unwillingness to consider if oneself is racist. It is an expectation that I must justify why said evangelical is racist.
A general unwillingness to even hear the critic and the counter rejection is the fruit of complicit and implicit white supremacy
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Ernst Käsemann insists that 1 Corinthians 14 shall be the cipher for decrypting the doctrine of inspiration and pneumatic enthusiasm in this book "Jesus Means Freedom". (Thread to follow!)
Käsemann argues that "enthusiasts" are necessary to the church, because--despite being on the fringe of heresy--they prevent the Christianity from becoming anemic and lifeless.
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24 Jul
When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jürgen Moltmann explains that "Here for the first time, he does not want to be alone with his God, and seeks protection of his friends." WJC p. 166
Moltmann keenly observed that Jesus had previously gone into isolation to pray for long durations. But in the garden, Jesus does not want to be alone for even an hour.
The anxiety of Jesus including his bloody sweat was his awareness that his entry to Jerusalem was not going as expected. Jesus sensed the danger that was inconsistent with the mission he had received in his baptism. The voice of the father had left him.
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18 Jul
Jürgen Moltmann lists four differences between Jesus of Nazareth and John the Baptist in the Way of Jesus Christ p. 89
#1. In the way they proclaimed the kingdom of god.

JOHN: A judgement of wrath on this unrepentant generation.

JESUS: A previent grace to the poor and sinners.
#2. Where they did their prophetic work:

JOHN: left the civilized world and went to live in the desert.

JESUS: left the desert and went to the busy villages of Galilee
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A thread on #Moltmann and @SpaceForceDoD: In 1989, Jürgen Moltmann prophetically announced that the advent of the nuclear age heralded the impending end of humanity and all life on earth. (The Way of Jesus Christ)
At that time Moltmann lamented that "It has been calculated that more than 50% of scientific intelligence and technical resources is at the disposal of the military and industrial complexes of the highly industrialized countries of the First World, for 'security' purposes."
A nationalist race for global domination has begun through the stockpiling of nuclear weapons that allowed nations to deter all other nations.
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