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#44 Donald Trump, gay cakes and white privilege

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Importance of Privilege in the Church

In the ancient Mediterranean world color was not an issue because people of all shades of pigmentation would be moving around through the Middle Eastern world. At no point in the New Testament do we get any binaries certainly of black and white or anything like that That's very much a modern thing that's a second point I'll come on to but this vision of the church and think of the book of Revelation a great multitude of every nation and kindred and tribe and tongue everybody all together all singing in praise of God in the Lamb has been the vision of Christianity from the beginning how come we forgot that? And then with the rise in the 18th and 19th century of social Darwinism the idea of the

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