The Hermeneutics of Suspicion is a way of reading that says the passages that uphold the status quo are more likely to be the parts added by powerful men, and thus we regard those parts with suspicion.

And that it’s fairly miraculous that passages that undermine the status quo, the authority and power of the men who assembled Scripture, and are therefore the ones more likely to be Divinely inspired.

So we lend more weight and authority to passages in Scripture, and theology, that subvert the dominant power structures.

All of which is to say, I believe in a Liberating God.

And there’s lots of liberation in Scripture! And you’re allowed to pay less attention to the other parts! Isn’t it a beautiful miracle that the Liberating parts are preserved!

Also, you can ask your clergyperson to teach you this stuff. You deserve to have the knowledge about your faith too.

How’d I do? Questions?
Corrections?

(Corrections from my teachers. Ima laugh at the first mediocre man who comes in here to try to correct me with an unformed opinion expressed in bad grammar.)