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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 5940799" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>christianity is perverted so we dont understand the important meaning of it all:</p><p></p><p>Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth. <strong>Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied. </strong>Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.<strong> Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons and daughters of God. Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</strong></p><p></p><p>Jesus, if he lived in contemporary society, would be undocumented. He was not a Roman citizen. He lived without rights, under Roman occupation. Jesus was a person of color. The Romans were white. And the Romans, who peddled their own version of white supremacy, nailed people of color to crosses almost as often as we finish them off with lethal injections, gun them down in the streets, lock them up in cages or slaughter them in Gaza. <strong>The Romans killed Jesus as an insurrectionist, a revolutionary. They feared the radicalism of the Christian Gospel.</strong> And they were right to fear it. The Roman state saw Jesus the way the American state saw Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Then, like now, prophets were killed.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Bible unequivocally condemns the powerful</strong>. It is not a self-help manual to become rich. It does not bless America or any other nation. <strong>It was written for the powerless, for those James Cone calls the crucified of the earth. It was written to give a voice to, and affirm the dignity of, those being crushed by malignant power and empire.</strong></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/sermon-for-gaza[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 5940799, member: 56035"] christianity is perverted so we dont understand the important meaning of it all: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth. [B]Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied. [/B]Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God.[B] Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons and daughters of God. Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.[/B] Jesus, if he lived in contemporary society, would be undocumented. He was not a Roman citizen. He lived without rights, under Roman occupation. Jesus was a person of color. The Romans were white. And the Romans, who peddled their own version of white supremacy, nailed people of color to crosses almost as often as we finish them off with lethal injections, gun them down in the streets, lock them up in cages or slaughter them in Gaza. [B]The Romans killed Jesus as an insurrectionist, a revolutionary. They feared the radicalism of the Christian Gospel.[/B] And they were right to fear it. The Roman state saw Jesus the way the American state saw Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Then, like now, prophets were killed. [B]The Bible unequivocally condemns the powerful[/B]. It is not a self-help manual to become rich. It does not bless America or any other nation. [B]It was written for the powerless, for those James Cone calls the crucified of the earth. It was written to give a voice to, and affirm the dignity of, those being crushed by malignant power and empire.[/B] [URL unfurl="true"]https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/sermon-for-gaza[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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