The eurocentric Jesus has brought despair, disenfranchisement, and death to communities of color. For the sake of their own salvation, these communities must reject the genocidal Jesus who destroyed Indigenous peoples who refused to bow to the European white God; the capitalist Jesus who justified the kidnapping, rape and enslavement of Africans; and the neoliberal Jesus blind to the impoverishment of most of the world so a privileged few in the global North can call themselves “blessed.”
The Jesus of present-day presidents and politicians—conservatives and liberals—procures the maintenance of U.S. global hegemony.
This U.S. Jesus is an angel of shadows that disburses theft and death in its wake. This white Jesus, as James Cone reminded us, is satanic. This MAGA Jesus is the patron of empire.
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