Questions From a Ewe, “Please don’t blame your sexism on Jesus”
I think the most offensive thing that you said, which I know you’re just parroting what other sexist clerics have said before you, is the bit about blaming your and the clergy’s sexism on Jesus. I must insist you all stop doing that. Please own your sexism and stop using Jesus as your scapegoat. Christ didn’t give us an all-male priesthood. The men and their male hegemonic culture gave us an all-male priesthood. Truly, for heaven’s sake, own your discrimination; own your sexism.
Eliel Cruz, “How a conservative Christian can have a loving approach to homosexuality”
I understand why having full theological affirmation is important to many LGBT friends of mine. A theology that says intimacy between same-sex individuals is a sin is a theology that considers LGBT people as second-class children of God. Yet, there will never be a full theological consensus on same-sex sex for all of Christianity. We’re too diverse in our hermeneutics, backgrounds, and beliefs to ever all agree. But can someone have a traditional stance on their understanding of this topic and still be a loving and safe person towards the LGBT community?
Darnell Moore, “I’d Rather Go to Hell for Telling the Truth”
Years would pass before I was able to love myself more than my church members, former pastors, and even God supposedly loved me. It’s complicated because the churches I attended were spaces where my spirit was healed and killed. In fact, some of the worshipping spaces I attended were home to some of the most caring people who just happened to proclaim uncaring theologies. But I had to leave toxic worshipping spaces, and friendships, which had me believing lies. I had to separate myself from church leaders and parishioners who apparently “loved” me so much they felt the need to torment me with bad theology as opposed to allowing me space to live a full and loving life, with integrity, surrounded by affirmative people. The price of gaining entrance into their “heaven” would have been hefty, costing both my life and soul, had I stayed and believed their words.
Doktor Zoom, “Obama Said Words From the Bible, Is That Even Allowed?”
You might think that conservatives would be delighted that Obama, what with his devotion to atheist Muslim liberation theology, had finally invoked the Bible for the very first time in his public career, but instead, they were astonished that his lips did not catch fire from quoting the Worship Words, which are for Yang Chieftans only (and don’t even get us started on the people in comments sections attributing “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose” to the Bible — you know, from Paul’s Letter to the Merchants Of Venice). …
So, to sum up, children: Barack Obama never mentions Jesus or the Creator or quotes the Bible, and that is terrible. Except for when he does quote the Bible, which he obviously doesn’t understand and despises. And now all these nice people will go to church and pray for Jesus to rescue America from all these goddamn brown people.
Maria Joanna Krol-Sinclair, “To the Guy I Punched in the Face in Prague”
Now, look, I don’t usually go around assaulting strangers, but apparently you do, as evidenced by the very apparent (to me as well as to random people milling around) hand-so-far-up-my-dress-that-it-was-literally-painful as you passed me on the street. Ok, nope, take that back: I don’t want to assume anything about you, dude-who-stuck-his-hand-up-my-dress: after all, this was the first time I assaulted anyone, maybe it was your first time too?
… I felt a beet-sized knot rising in my throat and knew that I had two options: I could swallow it, like I, and every other woman has done a thousand times. I could swallow it, and add it to the list of times I was made to feel physically unsafe in the street.
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