Theological Musings: Collected Essays of a Tattooed Theologian, Vol. 1

by Dillon Naber Cruz

Sodom and Gomorrah, we are told that the city and all its inhabitants were destroyed. Their crime? “She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and the needy.”4

let me say without any equivocation whatsoever that one cannot claim to be a faithful Christian while also supporting Donald Trump and the policies he has been enacting since he entered office. Christian teachings are completely incompatible with Trumpism, regardless of what the false teachers like Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. have to say. The way Trump ran his campaign should have been a clue that his views are vastly different from what Jesus taught about the Kindom.

We can safely say in our time that there is neither white nor Black, straight nor gay, cis nor trans, rich

nor poor, for all are equal in Christ, and we must love all these people unconditionally.

the sordid history of racists doing terrible things in the name of Christianity such as enslaving Africans for hundreds of years and the enslaving class starting the largest denomination in America (the Southern Baptist Convention).

people were to return to live off their ancestral lands that had been taken from them to pay off debts

the fact that Trump knows nothing at all about, nor cares about, the Bible or the Christian faith, except when he can use them as props to pander to his base.

that in Christ there is no room for division, for all are equal.

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?”

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”

But every operation which extends from God to the creation…has its origin from the Father, proceeds through the Son, and is completed in the Holy Spirit.13

is to God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, not the Stars and Stripes, a political party, or a nation state.

The Pences, Falwells, and Grahams of the world do not speak for Christianity as a whole, nor should they be allowed to perpetuate their satanic bigotry in the name of religious freedom.

White, conservative evangelicals are not being persecuted in American society and should stop pretending that they are.

affirm the worth of all God’s people without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.

hundreds of wives and concubines.10 Throughout Biblical history, marriage was seen as contractual11 and women were little more than property that could be discarded for almost any reason at all, placing them in precarious positions socially.