Things that trouble me: Loving your enemies
Just saw this posted by a prominent African American attorney in Philadelphia: And I get it. There's a history in this country of "Christians" using their religion to subdue black people. I'm reminded of this : On display now at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., is a special exhibit centered on a rare Bible from the 1800s that was used by British missionaries to convert and educate slaves. What's notable about this Bible is not just its rarity, but its content, or rather the lack of content. It excludes any portion of text that might inspire rebellion or liberation. "About 90 percent of the Old Testament is missing [and] 50 percent of the New Testament is missing," Schmidt says. "Put in another way, there are 1,189 chapters in a standard protestant Bible. This Bible contains only 232." A religion that contorts itself to maintain the mastery of its adherents is bad religion. It is propaganda parading around in the garmen