The combination of the Easter weekend and Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act had one public school professor lashing out at conservatives in a column for Slate.
Last Wednesday, Rutgers University professor Brittney Cooper came out swinging against Indiana’s new law, which she called “religious freedom garbage.”
“Any time right-wing conservatives declare that they are trying to restore or reclaim something, we should all be very afraid,” she wrote.
Cooper’s piece accuses all members of the Religious Right of racism.
She wrote that all conservative Christians have “antagonistic” political views toward “every single group of people who are not white, male, Christian, cisgender, straight and middle-class.”
She said that this is confusing for her as a black Christian female and wrote that she often questions if she “worship[s] the same God of white religious conservatives,” who she described as a “white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jesus.”
“I call this god, the god of white supremacy and patriarchy,” Cooper wrote. She went on to call that God “an asshole” with “nothing holy, loving, righteous, inclusive, liberatory theologically sound about him.”
Her piece ended by asking her readers to declare “death to the unholy trinity of white supremacist, capitalist, heteropatriarchy” supposedly created by rightwingers who “have pimped Jesus’ death to support the global spread of American empire vis-a-vis war, ‘missions,’ and ‘free trade.’
Wow. Is this the kind of teaching that students are going thousands of dollars into debt to receive?
