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If we could decolonize Christianity? The rest is in the bag 
That’s why they take out the Messiahs first 
Example from last year that has stuck with me: https://twitter.com/robwaytv/status/1267880521872412672
I would love to know what happened to that poor kid 
Christianity is a religion based on the life & teachings of Jesus of Nazareth- a Palestinian Jew fighting against the Roman Empire and occupation - why you think Mary was traveling for census/taxes anyway?
https://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/volume-13-number-2/the-monetary-system-taxation-and-publicans-in-the-time-of-christ/
https://www.accountingin.com/accounting-historians-journal/volume-13-number-2/the-monetary-system-taxation-and-publicans-in-the-time-of-christ/
Tale of Jesus’ Birth Provides Look at Social Climate of the Times
Scholars say Mary and Joseph lived in an oppressive society in which they were heavily taxed. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-24-me-12520-story.html
Scholars say Mary and Joseph lived in an oppressive society in which they were heavily taxed. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-24-me-12520-story.html
They didn’t just whitewash Jesus because they hate minorities - they whitewashed him so they could sugarcoat his political struggle that had everything to do with place, culture and power hierarchies.
It’s not about religion; it’s about power and land and oppression. It’s about human dignity and freedom. It’s about the Spirit of a thing over it’s legality. https://twitter.com/lunarroot/status/1390910078467944449
Christianity today is the world’s largest religion with about 2.5 BILLION followers...if we could decolonize their minds & touch their hearts to serve? 
We wouldn’t need an army. We are the biggest army the world has ever seen. And we could transition w/ minimum violence.
We wouldn’t need an army. We are the biggest army the world has ever seen. And we could transition w/ minimum violence.
I’m not a pacifist. But I am practical.
“For the next two years, Chenoweth and Stephan collected data on all violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 that resulted in the overthrow of a government or in territorial liberation.”
“For the next two years, Chenoweth and Stephan collected data on all violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 that resulted in the overthrow of a government or in territorial liberation.”
“They created a data set of 323 mass actions. Chenoweth analyzed nearly 160 variables related to success criteria, participant categories, state capacity, and more.”
“The results turned her earlier paradigm on its head — in the aggregate, nonviolent civil resistance was far more effective in producing change.” https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/
“One of the things that isn’t in our book, but that I analyzed later and presented in a TEDx Boulder talk in 2013, is that a surprisingly small proportion of the population guarantees a successful campaign: just 3.5 percent.”
“That sounds like a really small number, but in absolute terms it’s really an impressive number of people. In the U.S., it would be around 11.5 million people today.”
“Could you imagine if 11.5 million people — that’s about three times the size of the 2017 Women’s March — were doing something like mass noncooperation in a sustained way for nine to 18 months? Things would be totally different in this country.”
“Countries in which there were nonviolent campaigns were about 10 times likelier to transition to democracies within a five-year period compared to countries in which there were violent campaigns — whether the campaigns succeeded or failed.”
Erica Chenoweth
Erica Chenoweth
A thread on the roots of how co-opted Christianity colonized Europe before the rest of the world - twisting and obscuring its original message and teachings: https://twitter.com/lunarroot/status/1279439333032935425
And a thread about the *actual Christianity* as practiced by early Jewish converts and mystics https://twitter.com/lunarroot/status/1367849020375379973
And the Church has been present in Africa for a long, long time. Some slaves were already Christian when they were brought here as slaves (very short & shallow thread, I’ll do a more extensive one later): https://twitter.com/lunarroot/status/1388822564512878593
