Posted on 10/09/2017 9:00:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
White Christians who are upset at NFL players who choose to protest during the playing of the national anthem are showing that they're more "white" than they are "Christian," the Rev. Jim Wallis has claimed.
Wallis, the president of the progressive Christian social justice organization Sojourners who is a prominent evangelical critic of President Donald Trump, wrote an op-ed published Thursday that commented on the emotionally charged issue of NFL national anthem protests and Trump's heated opposition to them.
Wallis stated that Sojourners has encouraged protests during the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" before games as a "prophetic stance" that is "part of a tradition of black athletes taking a stand for racial justice in professional arenas."
The pattern of football players taking a knee or sitting during the national anthem began in 2016 with former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick who began sitting before taking a knee to protest police brutality against African-Americans. It became widespread in the NFL after Trump argued last month that players who protest the anthem should be fired.
Although many approve of the NFL players' protesting during the national anthem, there are thousands of Americans who believe that protesting during the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" is disrespectful to the country, military, veterans and the U.S. flag.
However, Wallis asserts that the facts of "disproportionate lethal state violence against people of color are beyond dispute" and justify such protests. He continued by stating that "white sports fans" and others who voiced their displeasure with "Kaepernick's witness" are simply "demonstrating their ignorance" about police violence against people of color.
Kaepernick was photographed at 49ers training camp practices wearing socks depicting cops as pigs and was reported to have donated $25,000 to "Assata's Daughters," a group named after FBI fugitive and convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur. His donation was made "as part of his goal to provide $100,000 to underprivileged communities. He designated $2,500 specifically for 'Cop Watch,' a program that trains volunteers to follow and videotape police officers," Town Hall reports.
"For white Christians who got angry, it sadly was one more example of white Christians showing their brothers and sisters of color that the operative word in their white Christian identity is not 'Christian,' but 'white,'" Wallis wrote.
Although over 200 players throughout the league engaged in some form national anthem protest in Sunday games after Trump called for protesters to be fired on Friday, Sept. 22, fewer players have engaged in protests in the weeks to follow.
"It remains to be seen how long and to what degree these protests will last, as there is tremendous pressure on the players from President Trump, many owners, and some sponsors to 'stick to sports,'" Wallis stated. "This language — and the critiques saying those who take a knee are disrespecting the flag or the troops — is an attempt to veil the problem so many in power have with mostly black athletes protesting police violence against people of color and broader systemic racism."
Wallis also criticized the president for the fact that his comments about the NFL anthem protests and ensuing tweets throughout that weekend came on the same weekend that Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. Wallis said that Trump seemed to show that he cared more about his feud with the NFL than he did a "U.S. territory mostly populated by people of color."
"This is what has been made clear: Donald Trump doesn't really believe in the equality of citizens of color in America. He doesn't accept the fact that they deserve equal and fair protection under the law, or relief and support when they are in jeopardy from natural disasters. He just doesn't believe it. And he actively appeals to a core Trump base that doesn't believe it either," Wallis argued. "And this is what has been made clear to me: We all need to take a knee for racial justice, in our stadiums, our churches, and in our common community spaces."
Wallis added that Trump's opposition to anthem protests shows that it's "time for Christians to take a knee and pray for our country to survive a president who is utterly devoid of humanity, and whose actions empower and exacerbate the forces of racial inequity."
Although Wallis asserts that many who oppose the national anthem protests are ignorant of the facts of police violence, virginia pastor E.W. Jackson, an African-American, argued recently that the national anthem protests are not a "black thing."
The conservative pastor and activist said in a video that the data shows that the dis proportionate level of police violence against African-Americans is due to the fact African-Americans commit more crimes. Jackson added that "there is no epidemic of police brutality against black people."
"Just look at the Bureau of Justice statistics. That's the fact," Jackson contended. "Black men commit a disproportionate amount of violent crimes. You might not like to hear that but it's the truth."
"I am not saying that no police officer has ever done anything wrong and that no police officer has ever behaved racially. I am not saying that," Jackson continued. "I know better than that. What I am saying that is statistically, there is no epidemic of police brutality. There is epidemic of black-on-black crime and murder. That's the problem but you don't want to talk about that."
Jim Wallis. It figures. He’s always been a Leftist first and foremost.
Amen. Thank you for posting Proverbs 6. It was exactly the Scripture I cited during a discussion with some black liberals about Wallis and the Left.
What are the millionaires protesting, exactly, Jimmy?
Jim Wallis has been around for years, beginning in the Vietnam War era IIRC.
Wallis is always trying to pass off the current leftist agenda as being Christian.
Wallis and Sojourners goes back much, much farther than 2008. Like maybe 40 years.
The Social Gospel is the gospel of Judas. It was Judas who castigated the woman for annoiting Christ with expensive perfume. Jesus told Judas to leave her alone. Christ said the poor you will have with you always. Judas wanted to put a price on things for social justice, instead of focusing on Jesus.
Salvation does not come about from behavior.
“The Social Gospel is the gospel of Judas. It was Judas who castigated the woman for annointing Christ with expensive perfume. Jesus told Judas to leave her alone. Christ said the poor you will have with you always. Judas wanted to put a price on things for social justice, instead of focusing on Jesus.”Outstanding quote! Thank you. Judas was a peacock/sjw (among other things).
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You could not be more wrong.
Obedience is required; that is the point Yeshua made in Matthew 7:21-23, and that John makes in his entire first epistle.
Not just obedience, but willing obedience. Without that we have no “garment” for the wedding feast.
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Here are some really sad facts about the political hypocrites at the NFL.
In 2012 the NFL had an issue with Tim Tebow kneeling for each game to pray, they also had an issue with Tebow wearing John 3:16 as part of his blackout to avoid glare and made him take it off. The Liberal media crucified him continually.
In 2013 the NFL fined Brandon Marshall for wearing green cleats to raise awareness for people with mental health disorders....
In 2014 Robert Griffin III (RG3) entered a post-game press conference wearing a shirt that said "Know Jesus Know Peace" but was forced to turn it inside out by an NFL uniform inspector before speaking at the podium.
In 2015 DeAngelo Williams was fined for wearing "Find the Cure" eye black for breast cancer awareness.
In 2015 William Gay was fined for wearing purple cleats to raise awareness for domestic violence. (not that the NFL has a domestic violence problem...) Yea right.
In 2016 the NFL prevented the Dallas Cowboys from wearing a decal on their helmet in honor of 5 Dallas Police officers killed in the line of duty.
In 2016 the NFL threatened to fine players who wanted to wear cleats to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11.
So tell me again how the NFL supports free speech and expression?
Well, a commie calls us names.
Why should we care?
He was one of Obama’s false prophets.
http://godfatherpolitics.com/obamas-spiritual-adviser-is-a-marxist/
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The Kingdom became visible to some for a few moments at the transfiguration.
That was a limited miracle. Human eyes cannot see the realm of Yehova.
We will be recreated into bodies that exist in that realm. That re-creation is what Nicodemus was asking Yeshua about. He was not asking how to follow Yeshua, he already knew the path; he was a High Priest, and had studied the scriptures all of his life.
Our bodies are biological, made of matter, which cannot enter the realm of Yehova. We must be reborn into bodies that are a part of the eternal realm, rather than the corruptible material universe that we can touch and see now.
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How surprising!
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But we are saved by grace through faith, not of works.
Sojourners?
LOL! Marxists & Commies that want to clothe Jesus with the Soviet flag as if he came to provide money for the poor.
Jim Wallis doesn’t know the God of the Universe - Yeshuah Moshiach!
The Social Gospel (Word of Faith/Name it & Claim it) is straight from the Pit of Hell!
Interesting that this cockroach bursts onto the scene at this late hour in mankind’s existence.
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Saved by grace is Satan’s lie.
By the grace of Yehova, we are saved through the faith we are given to follow the Torah he has written on the hearts of his elect.
That faith, not magical non-biblical grace, is what gives us his righteousness.
Faith does it all.
John’s first epistle is the spiritual primer that you need. (desperately)
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False gospels have dominated from the beginning.
Willing ears give them power.
Every one of them uses the word of Yehova, clipped in little sound bites, and deprived of context to win its converts.
Modern Christianity is cobbled together out of the most pernicious of them: “Saved by Grace,” “Born again,” “rightly divide.”
They take the beginning of a truth and segment it into death.
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“Take up your cross & follow me”
Luke 9:23-95
Not buying your Christian sincerity Wallis - especially since politically you side with genocidal beasts who don’t like children too much.
That pesky Satan hacked the bible!
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