Real Bible Rob
I am a Presbyterian USA minister who interprets the Bible in all of its messy and varied voices. I teach and preach spiritual growth to people who want an open and affirming Christianity. My social media tagline is "People say lots of things about the Bible that aren't really there."
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Real Bible Rob
Slavery is still with us, Leviticus 25:42-46 & Colossians 3:22-4:1
Slavery drives Christian thought far more than you realize. It has never left us. Imagine for a moment being on a plantation as a child. Slavery requires the crushing of empathy. Much of what we’ve seen in the last 400 years in the west was the use of theology to excuse the massive brutality and hypocrisy of colonialism. Presbyterian history and the divergence of the PCUSA and PCA illustrates This messy history. So tangled, can we ever unwind it? Woke is an indicator. If you want to keep things separate, you label it and push it away. Social consensus is the enemy of Christian Nationalism. The recent story about Nottoway plantation is very telling. It was a resort and a party wedding venue. Yet it was a site of rape, murder, and torture of 155 slaves in its sugar plantation. Deconstructing the myth of white evangelical Christianity and its complicity in covering up cruelty is a necessity to move forward. The bullying must stop before we can be the church of Jesus Christ again.
References:
“Divided by Faith: Evangelical Faith and the Problem of Race in America” by Christian Smith and Michael O. Emerson
“The Color of Compromise” by Jemar Tisby
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