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Rastas typically believe that black Africans are God's chosen people, meaning that they made a covenant with him and thus have a special responsibility. [106] Rastafari espouses the view that this, the true identity of black Africans, has been lost and needs to be reclaimed. [107] There is no uniform Rasta view on race. [104]
According to Cone, if God is not just, if God does not desire justice, then God needs to be done away with. Liberation from a false god who privileges whites, and the realization of an alternative and true God who desires the empowerment of the oppressed through self-definition, self-affirmation, and self-determination is the core of black ...
The blackness of God means that God has made the oppressed condition God's own condition. This is the essence of the biblical revelation. By electing Israelite slaves as the people of God and by becoming the Oppressed One in Jesus Christ, the human race is made to understand that God is known where human beings experience humiliation and ...
Black theology seeks to liberate people of colour from multiple forms of political, social, economic, and religious subjugation and views Christian theology as a theology of liberation—"a rational study of the being of God in the world in light of the existential situation of an oppressed community, relating the forces of liberation to the ...
This is the tool of oppression. But in America, whiteness is the dictator of all things. It is the authoritarian that defines freedom and determines what is profane.
Thurman offers an “anatomy of hate,” as a product of groups without genuine fellowship. One of the main factors borne of the lack of fellowship, Thurman emphasizes, is bitterness “made possible by sustained resentment” (69). [1] Thurman considers hate as the means by which the disinherited and the oppressed justify moral disintegration.
Most, if not all, of the countries that expelled or made life intolerable for the Jews later invited them back, a process we see happening today in the Middle East with the Abraham Accords.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness.