Religion

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Fri Feb 1, 2019, 06:34 PM Feb 2019

Is anyone here familiar with Maria Lopez Vigil's 3 volume work Just Jesus?

From what I've found about it, it puts a human face on a brown-skinned Jesus and a feminine face on God.

It's apparently in the Liberation Theology approach to Christianity.

It sounds very interesting.

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Is anyone here familiar with Maria Lopez Vigil's 3 volume work Just Jesus? (Original Post) bobbieinok Feb 2019 OP

Here's a liberating approach to christianity: it is ancient paternalistic bullshit. Voltaire2 Feb 2019 #1

It's the loudest, but US Evangelical Christianity is not the only interpretation of Christianity bobbieinok Feb 2019 #3

Most Evangelicals will say they are for all those good things you mentioned Major Nikon Feb 2019 #7

You're right. Act_of_Reparation Feb 2019 #10

Not at all familiar with it Major Nikon Feb 2019 #2

From what I've read about the books, she breaks significantly from strict Catholic teachings bobbieinok Feb 2019 #4

A fellow by the name of Martin Luther did also Major Nikon Feb 2019 #6

Thank you for the suggestion. guillaumeb Feb 2019 #5

Hi bobbieinok - I am not familiar with this author, but based on your comments I Pendrench Feb 2019 #8

Thank you. And wishing you the same. bobbieinok Feb 2019 #9

Voltaire2

(14,703 posts)

1. Here's a liberating approach to christianity: it is ancient paternalistic bullshit.

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Fri Feb 1, 2019, 06:50 PM

Feb 2019

let's grow up and face the fact that we are all going to die, this life, this world is all we have, and that there is no sky being, male or female or other-gendered that is gonna save us.

Now let's get to work and make this world, here and now, as good as it can be for all living things.

bobbieinok

(12,858 posts)

3. It's the loudest, but US Evangelical Christianity is not the only interpretation of Christianity

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #1)

Fri Feb 1, 2019, 07:18 PM

Feb 2019

For a different interpretation read slacktivist at patheos, bilgrimage.blogspot.com. or John Pavlovitz for Christians who believe that as Christian's they are to work to feed the hungry, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless--all set forth in the story of the separation of the sheep and the goats at the end of Matthew.

There is nothing there demanding adherence to 'right belief formulas' or anti-abortion or anti-homosexuality or anti-immigration or anti-evolution or anti-climate change. Or belief in white supremacy. All views that Evangelicals have made the definition of what it means to be a Christian. All that is considered there at the end of Matthew in evaluating a Christian's life are actions that improve the lives of individual people.

Major Nikon

(36,900 posts)

7. Most Evangelicals will say they are for all those good things you mentioned

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 2, 2019, 12:35 AM

Feb 2019

And it’s not just the evangelicals who preach those bad things you mentioned from the pulpit.

Meanwhile none of those good things require religion and do just fine without it yet it’s hard to imagine all the bad finding so much traction without religion.

Act_of_Reparation

(9,116 posts)

10. You're right.

Reply to bobbieinok (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 4, 2019, 08:41 AM

Feb 2019

There are literally dozens of Christians working very, very hard to rehabilitate anachronistic Bronze Age codswallop by creative means of posthoc justifications. Meanwhile, there are thousands trying to take us back to the glory days of a hinterland kingdom in the ancient Near East. The problem with creative reinterpretation is that Bronze Age nonsense is still there, and anyone not deliberately trying to shoehorn this crap into a preexisting liberal worldview will invariably arrive at a different conclusion.

Because religion is unreliable.