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Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
In light of the Evangelical Illiterati's continued attacks on @JemarTisby, I would like to encourage you to purchase and read his honest and God honoring books, if you haven't already.

First, The Color of Compromise:
amazon.com/dp/0310113601/… Image
Second, How to Fight Racism:
amazon.com/dp/0310104777/…
And third, for the kids, How to Fight Racism Young Reader's Addition:
amazon.com/dp/0310751047/…
Honestly, if you find these works to be a threat, you better do some deep soul searching and discover what idol is being threatened.

Seriously.

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This "explanation" was largely popularized by Nathan 1/
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I can think of little that is more divisive than spending 5 years daily telling Christians that every form of antiracism, except that which is acceptable to White conservatives, is incompatible with the Gospel, especially after 400 years legal, economic, & social White supremacy.
Again, @Ameen_HGA explains well how we got here:

The spark of desire throughout our nation to achieve racial justice could've been embraced by White evangelicals as a cause dear to the heart of Jesus, but instead it was attacked on the very same terms that enslavers & segregationists used to oppose abolitionism and integration.
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Throughout my writing, I happily treat the Scripture as free of error, yet culturally embodied, subject to my own misinterpretation, & containing many statements & ideas that SEEM weird, difficult, & even wrong that cause me to say, "here is truth, but I don't yet get it." 1/
2/ But when I think, "okay, this just seems wrong," it's not because I believe it is, but because I'm trying to apply the analogy of faith, seeking to see how it fits with the Scripture's overarching presentation of God in all His love, purity, compassion, and generosity.
3/ As a result, there are many passages I have come to understand by listening to others who are very different from me, outside of my own tradition and social location, allowing them to peel away assumptions I did not know I had.

Yet there are other passages I still am
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I am among those who eschew "worldview" talk, and always have. Inasmuch as it means something like "the way you generally see things" or even "belief system," I think it's pretty straightforward. But it is often used by apologists to be some sort of totalized system of ideas, 1/
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3/ To me, this is just some strange Josiah Roycian idealistic nonsense. Nothing like this exists for flesh and blood humans. And I'd argue further that whatever we do have that is closest to this idealistic nonsense is something that we literally ALL ALREADY SHARE.
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Racism IS material heresy, and ought to be acknowledged as formal heresy (as the Eastern Church has). It strikes at the basic assumptions of the creedal Christian faith.

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2. In bearing the nature of a specific race, Jesus Christ bore complete and full human nature (substance) as such.
3. To say that races can differ by superiority or inferiority necessarily implies that they differ in nature (substance).
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It's clear to me that what @JemarTisby, @kkdumez, @socofthesacred, @ndrewwhitehead, @bethallisonbarr, @robertpjones, @DavidAFrench,
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Every age must do this self-critical work to avoid the ever present, and wildly toxic, age hubris from which we all suffer to varying degrees.
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