re: "Tyre Nichols’s Death Is America’s Shame" (The New York Times, January 27, 2023)
Again reflecting more accurately than any pious sermon or call to prayer the true face of what many Americans call and practice as Christian.
Instead of pushing for justice here on Earth, voters and their representatives too conveniently cite primitive superstitions and incredible ideals that actively pervert justice here now in return for promissory notes in a fantasy so idealized it cannot be coherently stated.
What are the bishops and pastors preaching to their flocks? Christian love, compassion and non-violence, or brutish law and order over basic respect for and acceptance of fellow humans?
(Hint: Whether of the populist Trumpish version or some other that denies autonomy and respect here on Earth, too many support authoritarianism and submission —witness the voting that led to the gutting of Roe v. Wade — rather than advocating actively for anything remotely like justice or liberty for all, which is to be deferred to their supernatural afterlife beyond all compass, but where their preferred god will presumably protect them from any need to confront anyone who might not be a member of their own parochial little group.)
Perhaps America's pervasive mutations of nationalist Christianity continue to be at least partially culpable for these recurring evils.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/tyre-nichols-video.html#commentsContainer&permid=122843864:122843864
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