U. Penn. religious studies Prof. calls God a white racist after Zimmerman verdict
The Zimmerman verdict brought some of America’s most vile leftist rhetoric to the surface of society and Professor Anthea Butler of the University of Pennsylvania is no exception.
Religion Dispatches Magazine published an op-ed by the professor you have to read to believe.
H/t to The Daily Caller.
The Zimmerman Acquittal: America’s Racist God
The not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman case has me thinking a lot about a book I first encountered in seminary, Is God a White Racist?, by the Rev. Dr. Bill Jones. As a budding seminary student, it took me by surprise. Now, as a wiser, older professor looking at the needless death of Trayvon Martin, I have to say: I get it.
God ain’t good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us. As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god. As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.
When George Zimmerman told Sean Hannity that it was God’s will that he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, he was diving right into what most good conservative Christians in America think right now. Whatever makes them protected, safe, and secure, is worth it at the expense of the black and brown people they fear.
Their god is the god that wants to erase race, make everyone act “properly” and respect, as the president said, “a nation of laws”; laws that they made to crush those they consider inferior.
Comments
“…as a wiser, older professor looking at the needless death of Trayvon Martin, I have to say: I get it….“God ain’t good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us.”
Well, I guess that completes the ‘intellectually stimulating, theologically challenging’ God-Profiling class for today.
It can’t be easy being God these days when Obama, Holder, the ‘Reverends’ Sharpton and Jackson and Professor Anthea Butler are all competing for His job.
God is a racist white guy? Why didn’t somebody tell me that God is a creepy-ass cracka? Is this lady off her meds/
She is correct. She definitely does not worship the God I do. Her god is clearly a racist. He also like killing little (unborn) babies.
I’m pretty sure she prays in front of a mirror.
Just when I thought I’ve seen and heard it all, someone like this comes along. Seriously though, between Eric Holder’s witch hunt, and people like this, I’m beginning to feel like I’m in the minority. It seems like this mentality has permeated society so much that it has become the norm, causing one to become immune to any sensibility or logic, and the inability to see things for what they are….
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