“Using Christianity to colonize usually backfires eventually because colonized peoples end up discovering that the God they were forced to worship is really on their side. They discover that the God of the Bible is a God who frees enslaved people and condemns those who exploit them. The colonized discover that the Christian story is a story of a God saving people like them from the type of people that forced Christianity on them.” – Damon Garcia

I’ve got a few books going at the moment and one of those books is Damon Garcia’s wonderful little work The God who Riots: Taking Back the Radical Jesus. Garcia’s thinking is heavily influenced by South American liberation theology, de-colonial theory, and anti-capitalist politics and his writing is accessible, succinct, and poignant. It’s just a joy to read.

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