Cornel West on 'The Passion'

from 'Toni Morrison & Cornel West in Conversation'

See/Listen in its entirety here: http://www.democracynow.org/2004/5/28/toni_morrison_cornel_west_a_historic

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[markodon]

"masochistic voyeurism ", great! im not relegious at all, but i respect people like West, who are at least true followers of their faith, and not some phoney christian (90%)

[mcshair21]

makes a good point that will be largely ignored by most who hear it

[fede2]

it's strange how within religious circules there's a great deal of special pleading with regards to how a religion is meant to be interpreted. texts written thousands of years ago meant to be understood univocally and with no room for openness or dissent, all wraped up in a neat and closed narrative about how religious institutions, power structures and beaurocrats know best. it's an epistemological joke, is what it is.

that's the sort of naievity behind those who come down on cornel west.

[itube316]

@Blunic: Please explain your point.

[MrBlackhaw]

@plarpusan12 I guess I would just look at the basic or mere christianity that the church has taught for over 2 thousand years.

[plarpusan12]

Vatican II "ushered in a new era in the history of the Catholic Church," theologian Hans Kung wrote. Latin American bishops adopted "the preferential option for the poor."Thus the bishops renewed the radical pacifism of the Gospels that had been put to rest when the Emperor Constantine established Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire "a revolution" that in less than a century converted "the persecuted church" to a "persecuting church," according to Kung.-Noam Chomsky

[plarpusan12]

@MrBlackhaw What is laughable is that one might think it is possible to determine a "real" Christianity. Good Luck!

[EstacadoConstantine]

@MrBlackhaw he is not talking about that.He is saying how christianity was intergrated into a society that persucuted the first Christians.Christianity in actuality is both ethical and spiritual.Like Buddism except the face that Christian actually worship a divine figure

[MrBlackhaw]

Also the constatinian vs. prohetic Christianity is a little laughable. Typical liberal chirstianity with roots at least all the way back to the 19th century. Historians have mostly rejected the idea that Constatine ruined christianity and the real christianity was more ethical in nature than metaphyscial.

[MrBlackhaw]

interesting that Jesus really did not go agaisnt the Toman empire as much as many of those around him wanted him to. He really argued mroe against hte pharisees and other jews than agaisnt the roman empire.

[powereddrive]

Leave it to reductionists on the left to distill the history of Christianity to a religion of liberation before Constantine's conversion and a tyranny afterwards.