"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."
For those asking "Who?," Andre has been platformed at a rather large (1,500-member) PCUSA church in the past year:

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The point, in brief:
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