"The version of Christianity that I received had this very strong, you're not supposed to commune with the dead, basically...I really asked the question, why would it be so important for these oppressors to tell us not to connect with our ancestors?" Andre Henry
<Christianity does not prohibit you from "connecting" to your ancestors in the sense of knowing who they are and what they did in their lives. It does prohibit occult rituals to directly communicate with the dead. This discussion does not clearly make the distinction.>
Oh, we're not done.
Jo Luehmann says in Christianity, "pleasure is for whiteness...pleasure is divine...but for us [POC], work is divine...It's grooming theology."
The logical conclusion of standpoint epistemology: "All reality is a hallucination, really...That's why you can have 2 people walk down the street and have 2 very, very different experiences."
"I don't believe in God. At all. But I believe in Christ, and to me Christ is just the embodiment of divinity in me, in you, in all of humanity. So for all intents and purposes, I'm a Christian atheist...I just tell people I'm a Christian to avoid all of the 'what do you mean?'"
Andre: "I stopped believing in God, as well, I think it was 2016...Someone told me that if I did mushrooms that I would believe in God again."
"There's something about that decolonizing journey that puts you...kind of in the wild again. And Genesis is my favorite book of the Bible, because that is the sense of God that I get from it, is that no one in Genesis has a Bible. They don't have churches. It's very messy."
"Ancient Jewish spirituality, which is what Christianity borrows from, is indigenous spirituality. And because it was stolen and because it was corrupted and appropriated by systems of oppression doesn't mean that I have to reject it."
"They're living under Babylonian subjugation. Of course they're gonna tell each other stories about how they've overcome oppression in the past...Most of the stuff in Joshua didn't really happen...I don't think Bob Marley actually shot the sheriff's deputy."
At the opening of the United Methodist Church's General Conference, attendees are warned to avoid "exclusively male language for God" and to "be conscious of inferred power dynamics."
The next day, this same duo presented their "report card" on the diversity of officers elected to the conference's legislative committees, then scolded attendees to "work a little bit harder on inclusion with language and interpretation."
Fani Willis returned to church to accept an award and deliver a brief sermon on her court hearing.
"The scripture they keep sending me is 'No weapon formed against you shall prosper'...They did not say the weapons will not form, and that's the part I didn't hear until recently."
Atlanta Berean Church, a Seventh-Day Adventist congregation, hosted Willis this Saturday for nearly 20 minutes of adulation, starting with lead pastor Dr. Sherwin Jack declaring, "She is one of us" (1:26).
The church presented Willis with a "Black History Achievement Award," SDA founder Ellen G. White's "Conflict Of The Ages" book series, and more.
"These beautiful flowers are for you, the beautiful person that you are. We love you."
Kelly Rosati, a National Association Of Evangelicals board member, calls pro-life Christians' opposition to state-run welfare "useless," "un-scriptural," and "madness."
Here's wider context: Rosati, an alumnus of Focus On The Family and former member of the March For Life's board of national directors, is speaking at the NAE's "Flourish" conference in October of last year. (1/2)
"I just want to plant a flag and say: Let us be people that never advocate for abortion restrictions without an accompanying paid family leave support." (2/2)
Has the Gospel Coalition embraced Federal Vision theology?
"What is the basis of our regeneration at the Judgment? It is not our confession. It is actually our living."
(see full thread for wider context)
Speaker is Darryl Williamson of Living Faith Bible Fellowship in Tamba Bay, FL, during a "Good-Faith Debate" published this March.
"How do we advance both a reconciliation and justice vision in the church?...I think it begins with...us getting the gospel right." (1/2)
"The Judgment seat, biblically, is inherently ethical...It's not a doctrinal exam. And so you don't get to give the password. The 'I've accepted Christ as my savior'...Doesn't mean it's works righteousness. It just means it's the nature of the judgment." (2/2)
This is how subversive churches will twist Genesis 1:27 to sow gender confusion in children: THREAD 🧵
"When God creates day + night, what's between day + night? Sunset + sunrise are between day + night, so there's dusk and there's dawn and there's twilight. I feel pretty safe saying that I think God created sunset."
"Do you know if there's anything between dry land + water?"
"There's some animals that live in the water AND on the land, right?"
"God created land animals and water animals and amphibians and sea birds. God also created everyone between and beyond male and female. I feel pretty safe saying that."
Found some professors from Fuller and UCLA defending, whitewashing + advocating Critical Race Theory, by name, at an event held by the church of a pastor regularly featured on the YouVersion Bible app's devotionals.
No, this isn't from June 2020. It's May 2023.
The speaker is Jeff Liou, who co-authored "Christianity and Critical Race Theory: A Faithful and Constructive Conversation" with Robert Chao Romero, who I've clipped several times before. Here, the two authors call anti-CRT Christians liars and "a**holes."
(This says a lot, since @neilshenvi and @RealPatSawyer have been at the forefront of Christians critiquing this ideology. Per a quick Kindle search, neither men are mentioned in their book)