tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post3915543837264111514..comments2023-08-10T06:32:38.601-04:00Comments on By Their Strange Fruit <a name="top"> </a>: Double Bind and Cheap Grace (Part 2)BTSF:http://www.blogger.com/profile/02553697351488297764noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-70408202767606562902014-07-24T18:00:03.252-04:002014-07-24T18:00:03.252-04:00Good article. Our generation is in a unique positi...Good article. Our generation is in a unique position to be held accountable for the brokenness that still exists from ongoing pathologies but also, to offer a solution by presenting Christ to the world. Racism was planted as a seed from the enemy, and the quicker we convey that to the world, the more progress we will see. As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:10 says, "I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought."<br /><br /><br /><br />For more check out www.disruppity.comDisruppity.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-53027278167652351542014-07-23T20:37:16.769-04:002014-07-23T20:37:16.769-04:00Interesting thoughts! Here, I do indeed examine, a...Interesting thoughts! Here, I do indeed examine, as advertised, racial reconciliation from a Christian theological perspective. Nevertheless, dialing within that, the atonement-theory framework is also work worth reexamining, as you allude to. Though the fundamental conclusions of living in a system of injustice, and our need work to alter it, may not change, I'm still working through how the case logic itself may evolve outside of atonement theory. I do believe there is something fundamentally not ideal with the way the world is right now, and that we continue to perpetuate that brokenness. Is that due to an Original Sin that requires retribution? Not necessarily.BTSFbloghttp://bytheirstrangefruit.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1475128319218423248.post-58317036574005562292014-07-23T15:24:36.290-04:002014-07-23T15:24:36.290-04:00The whole Original Sin thing and the logic of pena...The whole Original Sin thing and the logic of penal substitutionary atonement is actually one of the problems I think. This "we live in a fallen world" line provides little impetus for people of privilege to check themselves. In our increasingly individualistic world, especially with threats of impending ecological doom, people are less concerned about the well being of their children and their children's children. "They'll have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps like I did," we are taught to think. The institution of Original Sin is so ingrained in our rhetoric and Christian worldview I'm not sure it's worth saving. I have other reasons beyond it being a barrier to racial reconciliation. There have been myriad "heresies" throughout church history, a lot of them I have been comfortable at different times holding as my own view. I struggle with normalizing and making Original Sin the monolithic Christian perspective because we should all be free to approach scripture and theology from how our subjective context allow us and come up with interpretations that make sense to us and because the doctrine of Original Sin was one of the main motivators in settler colonialism in the US, likening Natives to Adam and Eves who need to be reborn in Jesus aka white or killed. <br /><br /><br />All that said racial reconciliation requires a multiplicity of approaches, and this piece is a good word from the majority/dominant understanding of Christian theology. I just drank too much coffee probably and I'm a bit of an (intellectual and political) anarchist so there you go.Matt Cumingsnoreply@blogger.com