Rev. Adriene Thorne is the newest pastrix of the historic Riverside Church in New York City, described on their website as “one of the leading voices of Progressive Christianity” and ” a forum for important civic and spiritual leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, President Clinton, the Dalai Lama, and countless others.”
An out-and-out pagan and theological whorette, she recently preached a sermon suggesting that God’s a racist, sexist, bigoted homophobe who really can’t be trusted, on account of declaring David a man after his own heart despite David ‘raping’ Bathsheba, intoning that she doesn’t trust his repentance one little bit.
“David lay with Bathsheba and had her husband murdered after impregnating her. And so does one horrible, despicable act wipe out all the good David has done? At the very least, it complicates things.
But for me, I don’t trust this character. I don’t trust his story or his repentance. After Anita Hill, and Christine Blasey Ford and all the unnamed women, it is challenging to trust this character.
“Now I know that tradition teaches us that David recognizes his sin and repents. Good for him. But what about Bathsheba? Because I also know that the tradition favors men. The tradition favors whiteness. The tradition favors wealth and protects those with power. And quite frankly, the tradition has given us a world that continues to prop up attitudes and behaviors that are death-dealing to women and girls, to indigenous siblings, to LGBTQ+people in our community, to folks of color and culture.
Ancient stories like this one, unexamined, uninterrogated, give cover to men who send messengers to get women.
And why does David get to be the only one called a man after God’s own heart? What does that say to women and girls? And what does that say to other men and boys and the question I really don’t want to ask: What does that say about God?”
h/t Woke Preacher TV
