Human cognition is plagued by motivated reasoning and a tendency to invent narratives that legitimize morally indefensible social arrangements.
In other words, what we do has an effect on what we believe—corrupt habits tend to corrupt beliefs.
In other words, what we do has an effect on what we believe—corrupt habits tend to corrupt beliefs.
So it’s unsurprising that men who enslaved other human beings would cultivate an ideology of racial hierarchy to legitimize their morally indefensible conduct toward fellow image-bearers.
And since our regard for fellow image-bearers reflects our regard for the God whose image we bear, it’s unsurprising that white supremacists would manipulate theology to underwrite their ideology—mangling the doctrine of the Trinity with their paradigm of authority & submission.
What’s surprising—or rather shocking but not altogether surprising—is that 21st century theologians who claim to understand the wickedness of white supremacy would proudly appeal to that very paradigm of authority and submission in making their case for the subjugation of women.
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