The Whitewashing of Christianity

Buddy read with Jeananne. This was excellent - of course I knew some of “white Christianity” was ridiculous, like obviously Jesus and his disciples weren't a bunch of European men, when most of the Bible takes place in the Middle East and northern Africa, duh. But Gay talking about some of Christianity's original thinkers and how they are misleadingly presented as white despite being African was kind of mind-blowing. And it should not have been as big of a surprise that Christianity flourished in Africa and other Eastern countries long before anywhere western.

I also want to think more about this idea about someone being a “product of their time” especially when giving the benefit of the doubt to white people over other races of people, and how that can be a type of whitewashing.

Definitely recommend. It got a little in the weeds in later chapters, but overall I found this to be very useful and interesting.