A METHODIST DOCTOR OF THEOLOGY | 2005-11-18
Not only do I consider myself a Christian, I cannot take the insults of people who call themselves Christian seriously.
I have a correspondence with a Methodist minister.
A Doctor of Theology, no less.
He said that Jesus and all the Disciples were colored men. He stated categorically that the first white Christian was Luke the Physician.
I blew that away, so he said "Well, they certainly weren't your white Christian gentiles."
He said they were COLORED MEN. That is the fad in theology school today. Wheni blew that away with reference with representations in Rome he had seen long since, he said, "Well, they weren't blond."
If Peter had been a COLORED man, the early Christians would have noticed it. There are pictures of Peter from the first century. This ThD has SEEN them.
So he told an intentional untruth.
But it wasn't a lie because it was a FASHIONABLE untruth.
He was wrong but he wasn't wrong in an IMPORTANT way.
Nobody admits they were wrong to an Evil Racist.
He has never admitted to me that he was wrong about anything. A Christian has to explain himself to liberals, but never to me.
I criticized his Holy Middle East and he listed five things the Middle East had invented. I took care of every one of them. He was wrong on every one.
He never denied it.
He never admitted it.
Which is exactly what I expect of a professional Christian.
All Pontius Pilate ever had to say to Christ was, "What is truth?"
This is not a new experience for me. As I have said, someone at the University of Virginia in 1964 first heard of me when he was a new student and he wondered who the guy was people kept coming up to and went away from like somebody in a reception line.
He was told, "Whitaker is knocking them down again."
So the Reverend Doctor set 'em up and got knocked down.
But he never admitted he was simply wrong about anything.
It never occurred to me that he would.
Admitting that you are just plain wrong is what Christ demanded.
Never admitting that you are wrong is called Christianity.