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thesummerking  ·  3486 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Original Intent and the "Me Generation" - July 4th Speech

... I'm sorry, I just can't with this. I clicked on a tag "social responsibility" and didn't expect an essentially Christian sermon. While I am normally open minded and receptive to all forms of education and reasoning I am literally sick with/and of anything that has to do with whiteness, Christianity, or American "#1ism".

In short: there are a lot of ways to combat the topic of social responsibility besides putting it in the "traditional" (gag) white supremacist, patriarchal, imperialist Christian context.

Also: the link definitely doesn't work.





hootsbox  ·  3466 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This link will.

http://buckheadchurch.org/messages/younited-states/

I find it intriguing that you would equate Christianity with "Whiteness"? Christianity started with middle eastern people who are neither white or black. This statement in itself belies your pre-determined bias and ,somehow, learned bigotry. To allude that anyone who has a Christian belief is somehow jaded and uneducated is to fly in the face of reason. So, anyone that is " Christian" has nothing worthy to say? I guess Sir Isaac Newton is a babbling fool? Or maybe Louis Pasteur was a biased "white" Christian" guy who hated everyone? I am so sorry that it makes you sick. Should it make a Christian sick if they read or listen to something that is "non-Christian" ? Christians do it every day, and they don't get filled with the vitreol that the tone of your response has . Perhaps you should examine the "roots" of your pessimism in this matter. Which, in the end, means you are nowhere near "open-minded". It is more " self-delusional " than "open-minded".

I do apologize for the non-working link.