Posted on 01/18/2015 9:25:46 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Our system of values in this country needs to change, and that will require more than just a single policy measure.
D’Angelo’s album, Black Messiah, caused a huge sensation when it dropped last month. Its songs were greeted as welcome transcendent messages in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement. The title of the album, with its messianic reference, hinted at its ambition to function as something like religious guidance. The songs evoke a justice-focused, religious sensibility – what I like to call a Pentecostal piety – that recalls the civil rights battle and that can underpin the Black Lives Matter movement.
First, a clarification: When I refer to Pentecostal piety, I’m not referring to a specific denomination of the Christian faith. Instead, “Pentecostal” here refers to the role of the Holy Spirit in political action. The Holy Spirit is a wellspring of solidarity that undergirds commitment to building a commonwealth, common good society among individuals of differing backgrounds and moral commitments. To riff on religion scholar Robert Bellah, Pentecostal piety is probably best thought of as a subversive civil religion. In its most radical variety, Pentecostal piety embodies a kind of democratic socialism – Rev Osagyefo Sekou, an organizer in Ferguson with the country’s oldest interfaith peace organization, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, comes to mind here – which directly challenges the racialized capitalism that has led this country to a place where black lives do not appear to matter.
Does that sound utopian? It is, self-consciously so, but that does not mean that we can’t push for it in this world. Pentecostal piety – or Black Messiah politics – will involve what Rev Dr Raphael Warnock’s has called a counterworldly politics of liberation....
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Pure fiction. It exists only in the mind of radical racists and strife-promoters in the Victim Industrial Complex.
Gee, this sounds suspiciously like the “Liberation Theology” all the rage in Latin America in the ‘70s and ‘80s, led by Leftist priests and bishops. How did that work out for the poor?
This Black Lives Matter movement will be even shorter-lived, because it’s obvious from the Black abortion rate and murder rate that to many Blacks, it’s not true.
Black Lives Matter. In other news, water is still wet, Asian lives matter, and white lives matter.
Pray these people will know their true identity in Christ - then they won’t have the need to compare themselves to others and feel incapable.
When blacks start demanding an end to abortion and stop aborting their own by the millions, then maybe I’ll believe their little chant that “black lives matter”.
Until then, don’t preach to me that a few thugs shot by cops lives mattered more than their most innocent babies who didn’t even get a chance to breath.
That picture is telling. I truly think you can tell who a person serves in the Spiritual sense just by knowing on whose side they fall on regarding the whole “Palestinian”/Israeli conflict.
Hamas is of the devil....
For practical purposes Palestine and HAMAS are one and the same.in my book. Sorting them out would be like treating the rattlers and moccasins in my yard as different problems. It’s just the amount of noise they make in the long run.
“For practical purposes Palestine and HAMAS are one and the same.in my book.”
I totally agree. I probably should have verbalized it better in my post.
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