Personal faith and the ChurchStart the WeekWhat it means to be a black Christian woman in the UK is at the heart of Chine McDonald’s new book, God Is Not a White Man. Part memoir and part theological and historical study, McDonald looks back at the role the Christian faith has played over the centuries in perpetuating ideas of white supremacy. She tells Tom Sutcliffe that black women in the church have stayed silent too long.The writer Jeet Thayil re-imagines the story of the New Testament through the eyes of the women suppressed and erased from the Gospels. Names of the Women brings to life fifteen women whose importance at the Crucifixion highlights the power they once had. Thayil was born into a Syrian Christian family in India and was inspired to write this work by the defiance and authority of his grandmother.In 2011 when the Occupy movement set up camp around St Paul’s Cathedral in London, Canon Giles Fraser was caught between his pastoral care of the protestors, the needs of the church and the demands of the City of London. He suffered a crisis of faith and mental health. In Chosen: Lost and Found Between Christianity and Judaism, Fraser explores his own religious roots, and discovers the healing power of theology for the individual and society.
53:00 Jews too afraid of their Christian overlords to teach properly the Noahide laws by ranking the four gentile religions according to their conformity with them. Muslims should ask Orthodox rabbis to teach them the Noahide laws and then ask them whether they think Islam is most Noahide and Christianity the least.
54:00 Accepting the theoretical existence of a Creator would improve our thinking and society
55:00 Giving up the absurd claims of Christianity
56:00 No Christian theologian can explain the Trinity because the act of explaining it honestly would make one reject the absurd claims of Christianity.
57:00 The corrupt bargain of Christianity has corrupted Westerners
58:00 Britain still not admitting its mistakes that led to loss of empire, America falling into its Thucydides trap.
59:00 Complacent Muslims taking it easy because they expect to get into heaven by virtue of being Muslim.
1:00:00 Nihilistic narcissists motivated only by threats and bribes thinking and behaving like donkeys and cattle.
1:02:00 Repentance
1:03:00 Abuse of power
1:04:00 Church of Entropy
1:05:00 Secular Koranism
1:06:00 Doing what Jews and Muslims are supposed to be doing but are too afraid to do.
1:10:00 Secular Koranism ignores the threats and promises of God or the narratives of the Koran. It only concentrates on the dos and don'ts of the Koran and how they are to be applied and interpreted in a way that is in harmony with reason and humanity.
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