We'll be tweeting some highlights. Here's one by @RadicalRevFG, "Those who are most affected by the pressures of our age are not just victims: they are also agents. We seek to contribute our part to a reemerging spirit of solidarity that was long declared missing or impossible." https://twitter.com/ReligionandJ/status/1275821739830894592
"A common theme in these webinars is the insight that what exploits and oppresses people is what exploits and oppresses the planet. ... So what do people and the planet need to be liberated from?"
@posadasj "We need to be liberated from spectator and slow violence -- violence by the state and the death wrought by capitalism."
@EberhartTim "We need to be liberated from what bell hooks calls imperialist, capitalist, white supremacist patriarchy."
@EberhartTim "It's clear that the kind of deep solidarity that is needed requires solidarity with the nonhuman community."
@posadasj "were not gonna have a society that operates like this, we're gonna build a society that works for everyone."
@Joerg_Rieger asks, "Isn’t religion sometimes more part of the problem than part of the solution? How might religion help in addressing all of this? Why in the US is solidarity not practiced in religion and what do do about it; how might religion help to deepen solidarity?"
@EberhartTim "Capitalism is itself a religion. It is on the altar of the god of Mammon that we are expected to sacrifice the lives of workers."
@posadasj "Christians tend to think more about poverty, and not about capitalism, and that masks the underlying causes of poverty."
@posadasj "Because religious communities address ultimate issues, they have the potential to address all of our lives, our whole selves."
@Joerg_Rieger "Too often we see God's power as top-down, but what if we switch it around? What can we learn from essential workers about our thoughts on God and God's power?"
@posadasj "The most important power is the power of production, and we need to think of production broadly."
@Joerg_Rieger "What are new, and enliving images of religion that don't lift up the top-down power?"
@EberhartTim "We see so many images of people and the planet rising up -- you might say that nature itself is trying to throw off the domination systems of the last hundreds of years."
@posadasj "The role of the breath of God is also a powerful metaphor for the eco-social system that sustains all life."
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