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I'm out here trying to normalize changing your theology to a bunch of people who have had white Christian protestant supremacy baked into their very bones and I have found out it's not very fun actually
The thing is so many people don't seem to understand we change our theology in order to keep our faith in a good and present God who desires true justice for all.
And it's important to note why so many of us change our theology: not because we are in some quest to be the best (supremacy again!) but because we have let the stories of our neighbors change us. This seems . . . like the gospel stories to me.
on my grumpy days, I see people heralded in certain circles as "orthodox" evangelicals as people who have had to consistently ignored or dismissed the stories of suffering in order to retain their positions of power.
I have some hope in individuals changing, because I know the Holy Spirit can change people (like me!). But I gotta be honest I don't have a lot of hope at the institutional level, because of the ways they have weaponized changing your theology to be equivalent with losing faith.
(that, by the way, is a tactic designed to wield power over people. if you kick heretics out and encourage people not to listen to them then people are not going to jump at being honest about their questions/shifting theologies. or even pursue them).
