Catholic University Speaker Calls for Christians to ‘Crucify Their Whiteness’ – Opinion

Recently, Carlow University attendees learned a lesson on death-to-self.

The Catholic college’s Atkins Center for Ethics welcomed speaker Miguel De La Torre.

Miguel — a professor of social ethics and Latinx studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver — denounced Christians who voted for Donald Trump:

“When eight out of ten white evangelicals voted for a person who is completely against everything Christianity stands for, I don’t know what Christianity they are practicing. But I want nothing to do with that Christianity.”

What Christianity do you wish him to associate with? Presumably, the one committed to certain racial justice — March 3rd’s event was called “Rejecting White Christianity.”

There was death on the cross, not just rejection.

If you’re white, he made clear, don’t worry; there’s still hope:

“Those of us who are colored, some of us can also be white. There is hope. … We [who are colored]Our colonized minds must be crucified, and our white brothers or sisters need to. Crucify your whiteness.”

It’s a novel idea. Normally, Christian optimism comes courtesy of Christ’s crucifixion. Miguel believes that Miguel needs to nail another nail.

But even if it’s done, he made clear, don’t get your hopes up:

“We embrace Euro-centric concepts like hope because it helps to pacify the oppressed during their oppression. It leads to spiritual liberation, and ignores physical liberation.”

The man’s not much for the middle; The College Fix reports:

He called hope “a middle-class excuse to do nothing.”

Do not despair of hopelessness.

De La Torre argued that true character — understanding systemic oppression — produces hopelessness. He concluded his talk by urging the audience to realize that “embracing hopelessness is to be propelled forward into practice and action.”

According to some reports, he was also involved in stealing and lying:

Action for De La Torre means using what he called a “trickster ethic” to transform society.

The ethic covers things like “how to ethically lie so we can discover what is true, how to ethically steal so we can feed those who are hungry…[and] how to disrupt the structures that have trained us to oppress ourselves and to take upon our body our own discipline,” he said.

“This empire was built on stolen resources and cheap labor,” De La Torre said. “So hospitality is really the wrong word. What we need is restitution…By seeing this dilemma through the eyes of the margin, we come to a very different understanding of what the Christian response should be.”

Miguel, back to The Old Rugged Racial Justice: I have bad news.

As best as I know, whiteness has already been crucified.

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UC Berkeley professor tells students that eliminating whiteness means wiping out white people

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Mental Health Journal’s Article on ‘Parasitic Whiteness’ Laments There’s ‘Not Yet a Permanent Cure’

We’re living in unprecedented times. Everything has gone political and is now all racial. Although the American Christian Church was previously segregated in its early days, it seems to have learned its lessons.

Might the nation’s founding faith see a return to separation by race? If culture continues to inform religion, it doesn’t appear out of the question.

In the meantime, at least once Catholic University is endorsing an act of contrition — surrender yourself, and kill your unchristian whiteness.

-ALEX

 

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