ODD BUDDY

Here is a repost from my personal page that means a lot to me:

I have seen multiple posts from Christian women my age & younger in the last 2 days that were so “self-deprecating for Jesus as a performance” that I had a whole-body trigger response. Guttural sickness washing over me as I scroll through a comment section full of “Amen!”s because women are praised for professing that they have no will or use other than for consumption.

Christian women, what makes you think Jesus would want or ask you to forsake your own desires and gifts in a world of malicious leaders?

He modeled the behavior he believed to be righteous during an oppressive empire & he was executed for it. But you sincerely believe the book those same oppressors wrote 600 years after murdering him… is somehow an honest tribute to the spirit of his rebellion?

Have you ever heard the word Apocrypha?

You cannot bring glory to the savior you profess to worship if you fail to critically analyze his story. If you consider the Bible an authority rather than an ahistorical mythical anthology, then you are primed to be weaponized against your most vulnerable neighbors. You don’t have to be witting. The concept of spiritual authority is not valid & if you haven’t fortified yourself against such falsehoods, you are in danger yourself; and you pose a danger to society.

I did not react to or comment on the posts I saw. I did not remove either woman from my friend list. That bu****it is harmful for me to see, but I also see them as victims of their own ignorance. It’s tempting to live a formulaic life as prescribed by the wh*te supr*macist church: submit, serve, smile no matter what in exchange for a place at the table.

But are you willing to serve an institution that systemically exterminates human beings? Because that’s what the modern church is protecting.

If you are in denial about this and you fail to distinguish yourself as a warrior for the least of these, then you have forsaken your god in favor of your ego. Christians can and should take a stand against their own & hold them to account. That includes disabusing yourself of theology that serves oppressors.