76: "He called them together along with the workers in related trades and said, 'You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.'" Acts 19:25
77: #ChristianSupremacy has a nasty habit of claiming authority over other people’s experience in the name of values & systems. Once I decree my experience “the Christian value system,” I can play Saruman on all day.
.@SkyeJethani, I don’t know if all your replies are visible to you, but this one (from @brownandpinkdot) is especially worth processing. Please share it with @philvischer & @DavidAFrench & your team @HolyPostPodcast before weighing in further. There are real people out here. 1/
1. Yes. I’m waking up to the fact of Christian supremacism. I resisted the realization for a long time. I think I’m done resisting now. It's real. It's also a threat to public safety.
2. Feeling compelled to name Christian supremacy/supremacism comes on the heels of finally accepting spiritual abuse as real. The latter is an emboldened form of the former. I believe they often appear as conjoined behaviors.
3. Christian supremacy has come to run roughshod over the rights of people who aren’t & must not become Christian in my ostensibly free country in new & unexpected ways over the last 5 years. It's undertaken by people who've only recently struck me as spiritually abusive.
Hi. I have a PhD in Religion from @VanderbiltU. Justice Amy Coney Barrett is wrong. All schools DO NOT have to come from "some belief system." "Belief system" is a catastrophically unhelpful phrase for characterizing traditions that inform behavior. 1/2 c-span.org/video/?c499041…
Religion names a thing. How we name a thing matters. We, the people of the United States, have a constitutional right to not fund any form of religious indoctrination or what ACB might refer to as "building the kingdom of God." 2/2
Clarification: We have a responsibility (if we’re to abide by the Constitution) to not compel each other to fund religious indoctrination. After taxes, we’re each free to fund as much religious indoctrination as we want.
Within the communal (but also extremely lucrative) vehicle/brand called @switchfoot, Jon turns data into song. This one about overcoming white supremacist terror was inspired by @johnmperkins. 2/
This toe-tapping number, from their new album #interrobang, is especially fun if you know, as I do, that Jon reads Claudia Rankine, Kierkegaard, & Buber. He's a pop-song-writing philosopher. 3/