"The Origin of Race" - Dr. Willie Jennings

Theology, Racism, and Christian Practice: How Shall We Respond? The series goal is to integrate Christian Theology with practices that counter racism in our lives and communities. This two-day event was sponsored by National Capital Presbytery, Saint Mark Presbyterian Church, The Presbyterian Outlook and Institute of Radical Reconciliation.

[@graemefowler2554]

What an incredibly insightful message. I'll be chewing on the implications of this for quite some time. We need to take on this important love work. Thank you Dr. Willie Jennings.

[@lhouseplayz4715]

I find this presentation refreshing and laying out a path forward for Christians and others as we deal with the divisions and fragmentation of not only people and races but the creation. I like that he sees the larger dimension of the brokenness. It is not just our division along racial lines, it is how we see the creation, people, racial groups as commodities to be use rather than valued a beloved by God. He is helping me to see how we must find a deeper unity of all things in God and finding our value to one another through God who created us.

[@1PatMetheny]

@WhipperJesus so the message is illegitimate because of the messenger? If a poor homeless man gave the same speech would it then be true?

[@judyhill7601]

@Whip'em up! just curious, but what is your theological background? where did you study, to come up with your opinion? also germane, what religion do you profess?

[@003faze]

@Whip'em up! I see no lies

[@003faze]

@Whip'em up! I was agreeing with you man dam

[@redak1978]

The amalgam between superstitious believes and science. Taxonomy is a science which depicts variation between living beings from the more simple to the more complex. It classifys them into taxa according their similarities and their differences; the race in animals and the variety in plants are the infraspecific taxon which describes the variation within a species; each species in earth show variation between its populations and individuals, and this variation, called, infraspecific or intraspecific, allows taxonomists to distinguish categories of the same species which differentiate among them by phenotypes, knowing that phenotypes express genetic differences under the influence of environment; in some domestic species, taxonomists ranged individuals which differ only for one or few phenotypic trait in distinct races. How did a species as Homo sapiens could be monomorphic while its individuals and/or populations are so variable in phenotypes ? Homo sapiens started to diverge at the time he stretches over all the planet adapting himself to different environment; this divergence over hundreds of thousand years differentiated human races adapted to the various environments they colonize. Why people did accept the existence of races in dog species and did not for humans ? Though the species Canis domestica derived recently ( some dozens of thousands of years) from Canis lupus, Canis domestica differentiated hundreds of dog races and no one deny this. How can we deny intraspecific variation for a so diverse species as Homo sapiens ?

[@oreocarlton3343]

He doesnt even mention the Bible once! Just secular sociology, why no theological explanations?

[@jvo3777]

Get right with God friends, many end times prophecies of thousands of years ago are playing out as we speak! Accept the free gift of salvation, Romans 10:9-10, then repent of your sins and live for Christ, and you will be saved! 🎺

[@howardcash8301]

EXCELLENT! Yeah!

[@HowlingBenjamin]

Dr. W. Jennings theologises beautifully the idea of a proposed Solution to Racism White Su,primacy that ultimate is impractical in Sociology.

[@HowlingBenjamin]

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[@allrock1238]

There is one European historical example involving the deceptive work of a Portuguese king in the 1450's who was trying to "justify" his trade in slaves , this king hired a skilled Chronicler named Gomes Eanes de Zurara to seed a new perception on blackness and whiteness that was not there before, it is an issue the has entered the conversion circle, kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXq9daenjL1pfM0 I was unaware of it , was able to trace it , but its like the question what came first the chicken or the egg in driving ones deeper internal questioning ,

[@johntobey1558]

What we bind on earth will be bound in heaven there only belonging in Christ. We are unified within the Body if Christ. The Holy Famiky is a unity . . .because a chord if three stands is not easily broken.

[@assifkhan3803]

I am confused.i am not intelligent and would like to be educated so I can also live in the delusion that so many wish to follow..the chaos is in the trinity.and all the complecty that is so flawed before it even become racist.so why not abandon the story and just follow allah.and the oneness.

[@marvinwright6605]

Am I'm hearing an oxymoronic opinions teaching without learning!!!!