“What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference—so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels. Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven to, serve the devil in.” ~Frederick Douglass
Notice here that Fredrick Douglass does not deny Christ/Christianity/the Church; what he does deny are these variants of Christ/Christianity/the Church; he denies this Western version of Christ/Christianity/the Church; this ideology of countryism, colonialism, capitalism, and churchism that have crept into the Church, taken over property ownership of the Church, who have squatted, taking up unauthorized residence of the Church because it has abandoned God’s word and has become a spiritually unmonitored space;___in the end, making it unrecognizable and abandoned by God making the Church a victim of adverse possession, making it the house where God no longer resides.
The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. ~JOHN 10:10
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