Jesus and John Wayne - Week #5: White Supremacy

1. The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name
May your kingdom come, may your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our sins
As we forgive those who sin against us
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil
For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory
Forever and ever.
Amen.

2. White Supremacy
WEEK #5 – 3.24.21

6. “…evangelical opposition to government
mandated integration predated anti-
abortion activism by several years…
In the wake of Brown, for example,
many southerners turned to private
Christian academies to maintain
segregation, and when the tax-exempt
status of these ‘segregation academies’
was revoked in 1970, evangelicals defended
their right to whites-only schools by arguing
for the authority of parents to make
decisions about their children’s education
free from governmental ‘overreach.’” 1971

7. “Ideals of evangelical masculinity that
manifested during (the Cold War era)
reflect (a southern) formative influence.
Some proponents of Christian masculinity
praised Confederate generals and
defended the institution of slavery, but for
many, the racial subtext was more subtle.
Invariably, however, the heroic Christian
man was a white man, and not infrequently
a white man who defended against the
threat of nonwhite men and foreigners.”
1971

8. “Ideals of evangelical masculinity that
manifested during (the Cold War era)
reflect (a southern) formative influence.
Some proponents of Christian masculinity
praised Confederate generals and
defended the institution of slavery, but for
many, the racial subtext was more subtle.
Invariably, however, the heroic Christian
man was a white man, and not infrequently
a white man who defended against the
threat of nonwhite men and foreigners.”
1971

9. “I believe in white supremacy…
We can’t all of a sudden get down
on our knees and turn everything
over to the leadership of the blacks…
I don’t believe in giving authority
and positions of leadership and
judgment to irresponsible people…
I don’t feel guilty about the fact
that five or 10 generations ago
these people were slaves…”
1971

10. “I don't feel we did wrong in taking
this great country away from (Native
Americans)…Our so-called stealing
of this country from them was just
a matter of survival.There were
great numbers of people who
needed new land, and the Indians
were selfishly trying to keep it
for themselves.”
1971

11. GENESIS 9:18-22
The sons of Noah who went out of the ark were
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham was the father
of Canaan. These three were the sons of Noah; and
from these the whole earth was peopled.
Noah, a man of the soil, was the first to plant
a vineyard. He drank some of the wine and
became drunk, and he lay uncovered in
his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan,
saw the nakedness of his father,
and told his two brothers outside.

12. GENESIS 9:23-25
Then Shem and Japheth took a garment,
laid it on both their shoulders, and walked
backward and covered the nakedness of
their father; their faces were turned away,
and they did not see their father’s
nakedness. When Noah awoke from his
wine and knew what his youngest son had
done to him, he said, “Cursed be Canaan; lowest of
slaves shall he be to his brothers.”

13. EPHESIANS 6:5-8
Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear
and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey
Christ; not only while being watched,
and in order to please them, but as slaves
of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.
Render service with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and
not to men and women, knowing that whatever
good we do, we will receive
the same again from the Lord,
whether we are slaves or free.

14. COLOSSIANS 3:22
Slaves, obey your earthly masters
in everything, not only while being
watched and in order to please them,
but wholeheartedly, fearing the Lord.

15. 1 TIMOTHY 6:1-2
Let all who are under the yoke of slavery
regard their masters as worthy of all honor,
so that the name of God and the teaching
may not be blasphemed. Those who have believing
masters must not be disrespectful
to them on the ground that they are members
of the church; rather they must serve them
all the more, since those who benefit by
their service are believers and beloved.

16. TITUS 2:9-10
Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters
and to give satisfaction in every respect;
they are not to talk back, not to pilfer,
but to show complete and perfect fidelity,
so that in everything they may be
an ornament to the doctrine
of God our Savior.

17. the belief that white people are superior to
those of all other races, especially the black
race, and should therefore dominate society
WHITE SUPREMACY

18. “WHITENESS”
an attitude of entitlement, ownership, privilege, etc.
and is often rooted in anti-blackness; its the ability
to not notice, or not care about one’s power and
privilege; to be oblivious to the challenges others face
as a result of their non-whiteness; the assumption
that what is made for, made by, understood by,
or preferred by white people is the default
of what is considered “normal,” w/other
preferences/perspectives/styles/dialects, etc.
perceived as “unusual,” “foreign,” or “strange”

20. “It’s not about what
you celebrate, but
what you tolerate…”

21. - What has your experience
been with issues around
white supremacy in the church?
- How has it impacted you,
or others you know and love?
- What questions do you have
about the Bible and these issues?
HOW ABOUT YOU?

22. The Jesus Creed
Hear O’ Israel
the LORD our God,
the LORD is one;
You shall love the LORD your God
with all your heart, will all your soul,
with all your mind, and with all your strength,
and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
There is no other commandment
greater than these.
Amen.