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Is White Supremacy a Core Principle of Western Theology?

Is White Supremacy a Core Principle of Western Theology?

Last updated on: August 26, 2018 at 12:14 am by Andy Gill

Is White Supremacy a Core Principle of Western Theology? 2018-08-26T00:14:48-05:00 Andy Gill

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Is White Supremacy a Core Principle of Western Theology?

“But theologians have always had the ability to lend symbolic capital to ideas. These ideas can create conditions [that]have real-life effects.”

Recently, I tweeted this:

White supremacy is a CORE tenant of Christianity, period.

It’s a “cornerstone,” that if removed, would cause the collapse of western theology, as we know it today.

This is why I write: I’m slowly but steadily chiseling away at whatever it is holding this “cornerstone” in place.

— andy gill (@itsandygill) August 21, 2018

I was almost baffled by the people responding to this tweet and then, for reasons, many rational folk would understand, I wasn’t…

But, here are couple examples of the tweets:

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