A Rhythm Of Racist Prayer

Michie said:

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“My prayer is that you would help me hate the other White people – you know, the nice ones. The Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who ‘don’t see color’ but who make thinly-veiled racist comments about ‘those people.’ The people who are happy to have me over for dinner but alert the neighborhood watch anytime an unrecognized person of color passes their house. The people who welcome Black people in their churches and small groups but brand us heretics if we suggest that Christianity is concerned with the poor and the oppressed. The people who politely tell us that we can leave we we call out the racial microaggressions we experience in their ministries.”

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JS: How sad the state of Christianity is in today.

“I remind you that propaganda like A Rhythm Of Prayer is what pre-Nazi Germany did to the Jews, preparing Germany for the Holocaust. It’s what the Hutus in power did to the Tutsis of Rwanda, preparing Rwanda for the 1994 genocide. If a bestselling prayerbook called on God to help one learn how to hate people of color, we would know exactly what we were looking at, and we would rightly condemn it without qualification. But our institutions — academia, publishing, media, and others — have been captured by this evil ideology. If we don’t stand up against it right now, without fear or apology, then history tells us where it may lead.”

My question is whether it is declaring war on white people (as it appears) or is it in fact declaring war on classic Christianity itself, since Christians of all races will most certainly find that prayer offensive?

Is it arguing instead for a kind of SJW, woke, humanist form of "Christianity" where entire races of mankind and even the vast core of Christianity itself are targeted for hate?

anna ~ grace said:

“I remind you that propaganda like A Rhythm Of Prayer is what pre-Nazi Germany did to the Jews, preparing Germany for the Holocaust. It’s what the Hutus in power did to the Tutsis of Rwanda, preparing Rwanda for the 1994 genocide. If a bestselling prayerbook called on God to help one learn how to hate people of color, we would know exactly what we were looking at, and we would rightly condemn it without qualification. But our institutions — academia, publishing, media, and others — have been captured by this evil ideology. If we don’t stand up against it right now, without fear or apology, then history tells us where it may lead.”

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The "others" being Churches and their flock. We see it everyday.

BobRyan said:

My question is whether it is declaring war on white people (as it appears) or is it in fact declaring war on classic Christianity itself, since Christians of all races will most certainly find that prayer offensive?

Is it arguing instead for a kind of SJW, woke, humanist form of "Christianity" where entire races of mankind and even the vast core of Christianity itself are targeted for hate?

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It does'nt mention fox news watching black people. It is as if she doesnt know black people voted for Trump and watch fox news and appear on the network.

Michie said:

The whole article is quite interesting with several updates.

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One thought is that it is a (badly written) lament of her own inclinations.

Joyous Song said:

JS: How sad the state of Christianity is in today.

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What’s really sad is how people are so quick to stereotype Christianity based on the actions of those who claim to be Christian but aren’t actually very “Christ like”.

chevyontheriver said:

One thought is that it is a (badly written) lament of her own inclinations.

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And yet, she never actually repents of the hatred. Just shifts her focus from her “god”-breathed hatred to her social justice work. She never asks God to take her hatred from her. Just begs “god” to give her hatred and excuse her from Hell as a reward for her hatred.

It's almost a cringe point to make but just replace 'white' with 'black' in these prayers and imagine the outrage. There will and cannot be any outrage with regards to this by liberals; who accept this form of prayer as legitimate because they've bought into social justice/wokeness and conservatives who simply expect the continuation of this sort of thing. Thus it will only continue to get worse.

The only comparison I can make is between older prayer books/older devotionals, which no doubt would be accused of white supremacy or supporting white power structures because of who wrote them. But what do older prayer books say? I'll only speak of the one I have, no doubt written/compiled by some white Orthodox monks/priests in the past.


1st Prayer, by St. Macarius the Great

O God, cleanse me a sinner, for I have done nothing good before Thee. Deliver me from the evil one, and may Thy will be in me, that I might open my unworthy lips without condemnation and praise Thy holy name, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.

St. Tikhon’s Seminary, Orthodox Daily Prayers (St. Tikhon’s Seminary Press, 1982), 12–13.

That particular prayer book is constantly reminding us of our sin, our inability to live up to the high standards God has for us.

The only people who can stop this sort of prayer from taking hold is black Christians. They need to be the first to grab this devotional and literally throw it onto fire.

People like Chanequa Walker-Barnes get away with this because all the white people in their social and professional circles sit down and shut up as a matter of course.

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Or they feel they need to agree with them so they can be good "allies." Such people seem to derive personal significance from being a good "ally."

Such describes my cousin, who knows Sarah Bessey personally. And it likely describes Sarah Bessey. And their mutual friends and acquaintances. Most of the FB comments on my cousin's statuses are by white people too, incidentally.

anna ~ grace said:

And yet, she never actually repents of the hatred. Just shifts her focus from her “god”-breathed hatred to her social justice work. She never asks God to take her hatred from her. Just begs “god” to give her hatred and excuse her from Hell as a reward for her hatred.

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Michie said:

Sounds like more of a curse than a prayer imo.

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Satanists want the whole world to fall into confusion and chaos so they can take over the world. This type of twisted thinking is (IMO) an attempt at this. It's saying that God would promote hate when He is nothing but love.

Sketcher said:

Or they feel they need to agree with them so they can be good "allies." Such people seem to derive personal significance from being a good "ally."

Such describes my cousin, who knows Sarah Bessey personally. And it likely describes Sarah Bessey. And their mutual friends and acquaintances. Most of the FB comments on my cousin's statuses are by white people too, incidentally.

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I know what you are talking about.

In in the past few years since being an "ally" has become a thing, I have endured many patronizing assumptions from "allies" about myself based on the fact that I am black.

The worse are the virtue signaling, those who want to show me that they are white, but down with the cause, they usually start flagellating the white race, or white men, if they are women.

It's been unreal. I want it to stop.

Michie said:

Here are quotes, if you can’t read the shots.

“My prayer is that you would help me hate the other White people – you know, the nice ones. The Fox News-loving, Trump-supporting voters who ‘don’t see color’ but who make thinly-veiled racist comments about ‘those people.’ The people who are happy to have me over for dinner but alert the neighborhood watch anytime an unrecognized person of color passes their house. The people who welcome Black people in their churches and small groups but brand us heretics if we suggest that Christianity is concerned with the poor and the oppressed. The people who politely tell us that we can leave we we call out the racial microaggressions we experience in their ministries.”

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I like it.