Dear Editor,
Permit me to start this article by first and foremost commending Sir Alex Rosaria for his article entitled: “The injustice of white and Christian privilege”. I stand in agreement with him and as a scientist in social studies, I shall carry the issue (topic) a bit further.
Indeed, on the 6th of January 2021, the attempted coup d’état on Capitol Hill, America’s greatest symbol of democracy, was not committed by Black Lives Matter, nor a foreign culture of people. Indeed, the images of this shameful day, I saw on television, was crowds storming the security barricades, people climbing up the Capitol Building like animals … the breaking of windows, the breaking of doors, the ransacking of offices, guns drawn, shots fired and seemingly, the placing of explosive devices. What evil!
Indeed, many of these Christian white supremacist groups and organisations in America and elsewhere stand on a foundation built of hate, anger, violence, and racism against other human beings. They pay respect and allegiance only to a “Son”, a “Christ”, a “Jesus”, a “prophet”… They speak only of a “Kingdom of Jesus”. Seemingly they never call God’s name. They never refer to the Creator: The Great Spirit of the Universe, nor to His creation, which begins by respecting another human being, not harming another human being.
These racist Christian organisations in the USA all carry guns, yet they call themselves Christians. We can ask ourselves the important question: Do they trust in the Great Spirit of the Universe, or do they trust in their guns?
As far as I am concerned, God is not a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), nor is He a terrorist and much less a racist. For the Great Spirit of the Universe created all men and women equal and the planet Earth, the lands and the oceans belong to you and to me.
As I wrote in my book, the fourth edition of Le Dictionnaire des Bons et Mauvais Amours (The Dictionary of Good and Bad Loves), today in our world and lifestyles, the concept of Christianity is tightly entwined with capitalism, populism, wealth, health… They preach that Christianity is the best religion and the only “faith” that can get a human being to heaven – when they themselves only refer and “dream” of the space shuttle of NASA that will get them to Mars and to Saturn and Neptune when they finish destroying planet Earth with all manner of “plagues”, pollution, viruses … and what else!
They export their “beliefs” to other countries and cultures and many of these same “Missionaries of Christ” end up in jail or killed by tribal groups, or are found guilty of sexual misconduct. They practise certain rituals, they pray only to a “Jesus”, yet their values are far from the “origins” and they have little or no morals.
Many of them only act under false pretences and in a manner, they fly the “Christian Flag”, they “advertise the Christian etiquette” as a means of safeguarding their “Caucasian identity”, while saying to the world that they are not, for example, a Muslim or Hindu or part of any foreign religion.
May the Great Spirit of the Universe help by bringing order, respect and healing to humanity.
Beverly Richardson
