At The Crossroads

The Executed God and the Theology of the Cross

• "A still white supremacist system in the United States disseminates a domestic terror that reinforces corporate power and threatens us all, but predominantly and most brutally those in black and brown and other and communities of color." The Executed God.

“What must Christian belief and practice become in order to respond to the crisis of our time?”

"As I see it, the lynching tree frees the cross from the false pieties of well-meaning Christians. We are face with a clear challenge; as Latin American liberation theologian Jon Sobrino has put it, 'to take the crucified down from the tree'"

“Isn’t it odd that Christendom, that huge body of humankind that claims spiritual descent from the Jewish carpenter of Nazareth-claims to pray to and adore a being who was prisoner of Roman power, an inmate of the empire’s death row?”

“Isn’t it odd that Christendom, that huge body of humankind that claims spiritual descent from the Jewish carpenter of Nazareth-claims to pray to and adore a being who was prisoner of Roman power, an inmate of the empire’s death row?”

The Executed God

• "Christendom” which eludes to those institutionalized and all too prevalent Christian beliefs and assumptions that rationalized and reinforce the logics of statecraft at work in Lockdown America
• ...often functions as ideology, making an exploitative and deadly Lockdown America appear normal, necessary and incapable of being challenged
• “that the state terror that targets poor communities within the Untied States and radicalized ones in particular, is also a part of the U.S. state’s pursuit of a global sovereignty.”

The Executed God

• "there is a governing political and economic elite, a dominant domestic coalition, whose national and global sources of power and wealth are serviced by Lockdown America.”

The Executed God

• To participate in the way of the cross, is a national struggled, but one nestled within a world struggle against U.S. global power’s violation of the fundamental dignity, human rights and collective liberation of others nations and peoples.”

The Executed God

• The way of the cross and its resistance is no mere liberal enhancement of the political and economic system we have.
• It does not just tinker with what is in place, but dreams and works for its fundamental transformation