Thursday, May 31, 2012

It's an ugly white history


It is an ugly white history and the history of every conquering Empire has been ugly. The thing that sets apart European conquest is that it was done in the name of the Prince of Peace. Jesus didn't have anything good to say about Caesar but he didn't seem shocked by Caesar acting like the tyrant he was. The pharisees and rulers of the Jewish community got a major condemnation from the King of acceptance. The question isn't how could dominators act that way, but; how could they think they are Christ followers? Were they all insincere hypocrites? Was the problem found in the Western Christian religion itself? This wasn't the first taste of domination/evangelism for Western Christendom, it was involved from the early centuries. I am asking myself; was the product developed under Constantine the Church of Jesus or the cult of Rome? Was it the culmination of apologetic debates bringing longed for orthodoxy and unity to persecuted believers or the Imperial absolver of the genocidal tendencies of the sword of Gods wrath (you know the governing authorities of Romans 13 Constantine's favorite chapter)? Was it both? I think I'm supposed to say I think it's both in order to remain conciliatory. But if the hijacked faith of Jesus was responsible for this much misery, then the true followers of Jesus in united outrage with indigenous victims of this travesty should join our voices in protest and declare a true reformation of the Jesus way, rebuilding in a way that reflects the nature of our savior. I guess that would mean not letting the outrage remain our motivation while firmly not conceding the definition of "the Jesus way" back to the institutions of dominating empire.

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