The man pictured above is Rahim Buford of Unheard Voices Outreach. He’s a philosopher, a scholar, an activist, and a survivor of Tennessee’s for-profit prison system. He’s also our third guest speaker, following Anthony Ray Hinton and Justin Jones, in our
That's a gift of a question, Kathy. It occurs to me that I was probably something of a Christian supremacist the last time I saw you in person and that Rahim's question hastened my journey away from that position. Some of the answer is already up there, but, in regard to that passage in particular, I imagine I acknowledged that the text has formed my thinking while also insisting that I reject any hierarchical read on what I was doing there and what I was hoping for. I think Christian supremacy is a form of spiritual abuse. As an ideology, it's come to run roughshod over the rights of people who aren’t and must not become Christian, in our ostensibly free country in new and unexpected ways over the last five years. Again, I think it's had hold of me for much of my life and, with the help of mentors like Rahim, I believe I'm getting free of it.
How DID you answer his question regarding Matthew 25? I am curious.
That's a gift of a question, Kathy. It occurs to me that I was probably something of a Christian supremacist the last time I saw you in person and that Rahim's question hastened my journey away from that position. Some of the answer is already up there, but, in regard to that passage in particular, I imagine I acknowledged that the text has formed my thinking while also insisting that I reject any hierarchical read on what I was doing there and what I was hoping for. I think Christian supremacy is a form of spiritual abuse. As an ideology, it's come to run roughshod over the rights of people who aren’t and must not become Christian, in our ostensibly free country in new and unexpected ways over the last five years. Again, I think it's had hold of me for much of my life and, with the help of mentors like Rahim, I believe I'm getting free of it.