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Nostaligic history, reading the Bible well, and other such things

Dan

Two recent podcasts are worth your time in our current cultural season.

This one with Russell Moore and Karen Swallow Prior discusses the way we read Scripture, how to read well, and is a good conversation between two people who long to hold on to Jesus and are getting re-acclimated to a world that has shifted greatly in the last 10 years. I resonate with their conversation and if you are a believer of a certain age, this might help as well.

I can’t tout the Holy Post Podcast enough. One thing I love is the humor to help deal with the deep tragedies of the Christian nationalism we are facing in this time. There is a segment here dealing with Florida’s education standards wanting to teach that slavery was beneficial to black people.

Let me put it in its own paragraph: slavery was beneficial to black people.

That is the claim. (HERE is the podcast link)

And for “conservatives” to simultaneously believe in “free speech” (in that Donald Trump did not commit high treason and attempt to insight an insurrection but really believed the election was rigged) AND it’s okay to ban books you don’t agree with… that, friends is NOT conservatism and NOT republicanism and NOT democracy. It is FASCISM.

Stay alert. Stay aware. Cling to Christ. Call out fascism and racism.

Oh… and cling to Christ.

That was worth repeating.

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3 responses to “Nostaligic history, reading the Bible well, and other such things”

  1. Majik Avatar
    Majik

    First off, I’ll NEVER defend a stupid statement that slavery was beneficial to black people, but I am also tired of the monumentally false narrative that Africans were living in a paradise until white Christians came and enslaved them in the 16th, 17th, and 19th centuries after the birth of Jesus Christ. Africans were slaughtering and enslaving Africans since about the dawn of time just like all other peoples around the world were doing the same to one another. And when the white European Christians did become slave traders, it was Arab Muslims and Africans, themselves, who sold the Europeans their African slaves. Moreover, while some Christians to their eternal discredit were slave traders, slave holders, and defenders of slavery, even from misused Biblical texts, it is also and arguably more importantly true that it was Christians of every race who historically opposed slavery and fought heroically for decades, if not centuries, to end this accursed trade and practice. Moreover, it is mostly Christians today who are in the forefront of opposing the resurgence of slavery around the world today. But all that true history is hard to put in a 15 second sound bite, huh. https://youtu.be/h9_RQsI-ypc

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    1. Dan Avatar
      Dan

      There is not one mention of the false narrative in the podcast regarding some sort of paradise. The point was the doubling down on the faux conservative side of the defunct confederacy. That was the point of the podcast segment.

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      1. Majik Avatar
        Majik

        Mea culpa, I did not listen to the podcast. I just read your post, Dan, which I generally enjoy. And now that I’ve wandered into a morass begun by educators in the State of Florida and the current Vice President of the United States, please allow me my attempt to extricate myself. All I was trying to say was that it seems like our dumbed down educational system and our apoplectic political culture of the day truly deserve one another. Like you, I pray for the Bride of Christ in these trying times if my saying so doesn’t open me up to an accusation of sexism. But here’s some Blind Boys of Alabama to help us all find our way to some higher ground. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/bCfqS7HgAY0

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