Dr. Gayle, as always, as an interesting post, which I believe Rick Scarborough should read, daily. You will find numerous quotes, but this one stood out,
It is enough to say that Yeshua and his circle, whatever masks their writers gave them, would have fared less well in Germany between 1933 and 1945. In those days, the designation of the Jew as “vermin,” found famously first in Matthew’s “brood of vipers,” was fixed, and even the intervention of Pope Pius XII could not have altered that designation of Yeshua’s blood and racial identity, and his inevitable way to the chamber. His parents, brothers, sister, and messengers would also have been picked up in trucks and sent to the death camps as Jews. In the eyes of the master race, the identity of Yeshua as one of the Jews had no way out. –Willis Barnstone, “Afterword:… A Gentleman’s Agreement in the Gospels that Jews in the Yeshua Movement Not Be Perceived as Jews,” The New Covenant: Commonly Called the New Testament
You can read the rest here:
Aristotle’s Feminist Subject: Ruth’s (Sons’) Races.
Tags: anti-semitism, Jesus Christ, racism
Rick Scarborough, pastor and founder of Vision America, has said something that I find, well, disgusting. He declared that America would cease to exist if it becomes more than 30 percent Hispanic:
Continue reading “God Only Likes America if She is White”
Tags: racism, rick scarborough, Tea Party
On 19 October 2006, Harvard Divinity School hosted James Cone, Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, to present the 2006 Ingersoll Lecture. Cone, as many might know, is/was a promoter of Black Liberation Theology, first bursting onto the scene with his book, Black Theology and Black Power, in 1969. He seemingly has mellowed since those days; however, he still provides a call to look at the community’s theology through their own cultural experiences. I will not debate whether or not that is good or even impossible to completely do away with, but I believe that it is needful to remember that our experiences can shape our own understanding of God. Sometimes this is a good thing, as it helps us to associate more easily with those in the biblical texts, and other times, we allow our experience override the biblical message.
Continue reading “Culture and Theology: The Cross and the Lynching Tree”
Tags: black liberation theology, cross, crucifixion, crucify, evil, james cone, Jesus Christ, liberation theology, lynching, racism, religon, white supremacy
Jeremy has an excellent post on the myth of an open an easily accessible college education. He points out:
Continue reading “Race and Social Issues in Education”
Tags: racism
There is real change – while most pretend, this has to take some change:
A former national leader of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plans to conduct evangelism campaigns and engage in the ministry of racial reconciliation as an ordained minister in the largest body of black churchgoers in America.
Continue reading “Ex-KKK leader to minister in black majority church”
Tags: church of God in Christ, Johnny Lee Clary, kkk, racism
From here:
A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black has resigned.
Continue reading “Justice of the Peace who refused marriage to Interracial couple resigns”
Tags: Keith Bardwell, Louisiana, racism
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
“I’m not a racist. I just don’t believe in mixing the races that way,” Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. “I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else.”
I wish I could say that this was very uncommon in that part of Louisiana, but even though it is has a large university (Southeastern Louisiana University!), these ideas are rampant.
Continue reading “Interracial couple denied marriage license in Louisiana, yes, in 2009″
Tags: interracial marriage, justice of the peace, Keith Bardwell, Louisiana, racism, tangipahoa parish
“When the white man came to our country, he had a Bible and we had the land. The white man said to the black man, ‘Let us pray.’ After the prayer, the white man had the land and the black man had the Bible.” – Itumeleng J. Mosala, Biblical Hermeneutics and Black Theology in South Africa (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), 153.
HT.
Tags: bible, black theology, racism, south africa
