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I’m not white. I don’t subscribe to, nor have I read, any of the traditions of Abraham ( #Judaism, #Islam, #Christianity, etc.). Here’s my list of some take-away’s from this #book. I grouped & re-arranged them based on context:
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Group 1:
“We have been trained to read the Western scriptures incorrectly, especially the Old Testament (Tanakh). We read the Old Testament as if the U.S. is the chosen people of Israel. Turtle Island is not the Promised Land for European Americans.” (page 187)
“We have been trained to read the Western scriptures incorrectly, especially the Old Testament (Tanakh). We read the Old Testament as if the U.S. is the chosen people of Israel. Turtle Island is not the Promised Land for European Americans.” (page 187)
“Exodus (Shemot)… Promised Land… Deuteronomy (Devarim)… Land Covenant… A reflection of the Hebrew People’s relationship with God… relationship to their land was a to be a barometer of their relationship with God…
Towards the end of Samuel’s (Shemuel) life, the People of Israel rejected God and demanded a physical, human king. They wanted an Earthly Empire.” (page 41)
“Empires are concerned with self-preservation, conquest and expansion. The means of an empire are military power and financial resources.” (page 58)
“Old Testament (Tanakh) Israel with U.S. history… Deuteronomy (Devarim)… Book of Joshua (Yehoshua)… Do not leave anything that breathes… completely destroy them… According to this passage, Promised Land for one people is God-ordained genocide for another.” (page 72)
“Jeremiah (Yirmeyahu) 7: 5-7 was written and intended solely for the Old Testament (Tanakh) nation of Israel. It does not apply to white Americans or the American Church. The Western Church, the colonial nations of Europe, and the USA...
do not have a Land Covenant with the God of Abraham.” (page 130)
Group 2:
“The Doctrine of Discovery emerged from a series of 15th Century Papal bulls – official decrees by the Pope ( @Pontifex) that carry the full weight of his ecclesial office.” (page 15)
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“The Doctrine of Discovery emerged from a series of 15th Century Papal bulls – official decrees by the Pope ( @Pontifex) that carry the full weight of his ecclesial office.” (page 15)
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“The social imagination of the founding of the U.S. derived from the long-standing Doctrine of Discovery intersecting with a Puritan worldview that elevated the value & worth of Anglo-Saxon Peoples… “Germania” written by the Roman Publius Cornelius Tacitus.” (page 74)
“1630… John Winthrop… Puritan pastor… Governor of Massachusetts… “City Upon A Hill”… Deuteronomy (Devarim) 30.” (pages 70-71)
Group 3:
“The spread of the European version of the Christian message would justify violence in all forms found in Western Imperialism.” (page 21)
“Augustine of Hippo asserted the “Just War” theory.” (page 59)
“The spread of the European version of the Christian message would justify violence in all forms found in Western Imperialism.” (page 21)
“Augustine of Hippo asserted the “Just War” theory.” (page 59)
“America assumes it has the capacity to use violence in redemptive ways while the rest of the world does not have that capacity… a militant notion of U.S. exceptionalism… colonial expansionism…” (page 35)
“The rise of the concept of American Exceptionalism, therefore, is a theological problem.” (page 87)
Group 4:
“1763… King George drew a line down the Appalachian Mountains… upset the colonists who wanted the Right of Discovery and to lay claim to the “empty” Indian lands themselves…
“1763… King George drew a line down the Appalachian Mountains… upset the colonists who wanted the Right of Discovery and to lay claim to the “empty” Indian lands themselves…
wrote a letter of protest where they accused the King of “raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.” (page 83) – The Declaration of Independence
“One of the central mediating narratives of American society is the Right to Own Property.” (page 118)
“One of the central mediating narratives of American society is the Right to Own Property.” (page 118)
Group 5:
“The victors write the history – that’s incredibly dangerous.” (page 132)
“The victors write the history – that’s incredibly dangerous.” (page 132)
“Because the U.S. has won virtually every major war and has never been forced into a position of surrender, the country has not had a political, economic, military, and philosophical change mandated by the global community.” (page 133)
“The institution has the capacity to outlast the individuals that originally established the system.” (page 25)
“The captivity to individualism in the West leads many to reject the possibility of institutions and systems inflicting social harm that requires a social response.” (page 34)
“Attempts to simply change the individual and to rid the individual prejudices prove to be insufficient… even attempts to change systems and structures may not be sufficient… narratives… are the powers and principalities that must be addressed.” (page 38)
Group 6:
“Assimilation seeks to make minorities or people of color more culturally similar to majority white culture.” (page 121)
“Assimilation seeks to make minorities or people of color more culturally similar to majority white culture.” (page 121)
