“I started this but couldn’t finish it because of his racial slurs as ‘humour’. Making fun of other cultures/languages isn’t ok, and it’s not what we see modelled in Jesus. Additionally, from the first quarter which I listened to, I had an overwhelming thought that his preaching that we need to love ourselves, is so ironic and tone deaf without mentioning that so many of the ways in which we struggle to love ourselves is directly because the church has taught us not to like those things about ourselves. If we’re going to start a conversation about self love within the church it needs to address the continual messages of self hate and unworthiness the church has propagated for years via purity culture/ sexual shame / lgbtq+ bigotry / Calvinism etc. If we’re told repeatedly for years that we’re terrible sinful people who Jesus somehow manages to love and have continually pointed out all the ways we need to change, it makes sense that we’d have a difficult time loving ourselves. I don’t believe at all that this is the message of Jesus, but it’s certainly one the church (in it’s religion) has widely propagated”
MeghanHB via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
08/19/20