Christena Cleveland: Why God is a Black Woman
A People's Theology
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The White Male God
I love how it wasn't just some sort of like abstract theological statement for you to think of God as a black woman but like it was something that you needed to be able to embody before you were able to start writing these ideas down. I call him the patron state of white patriarchal religious conditioning. So he's represented in the ways in which our society. Confers moral gravitas and holiness and goodness to people is if they represent whiteness and maleness, and the more we are able to put ourselves into that box,. The more we are valued in our society.
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