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75: I didn't have the words #ChristianSupremacy yet. But I was seeing something.
76: "He called them together along with the workers in related trades and said, 'You know, my friends, that we receive a good income from this business.'" Acts 19:25
77: #ChristianSupremacy has a nasty habit of claiming authority over other people’s experience in the name of values & systems. Once I decree my experience “the Christian value system,” I can play Saruman on all day.
Can we say that what is happening in #Afghanistan is the #EndOfAnEra? Yes, in many different ways... (thread) > 
First, it's the end of this 20-year era in US/world politics bracketed by 2 searing, much-photographed incidents that each involved (a) airplanes & (b) desperate people falling out of the sky. >
So we can say it's the end of this era of the US's attempt to invade & then completely control/remake #Afghanistan. Many Americans (solipsistic, as usual) compare this solely to #Vietnam1975. However, >
#ChristianSupremacyIs the conflation of "Christian" with "good" in cultural assumptions and aphorisms.
#ChristianSupremacy is having every public interaction for 1/4 of the year involve strangers asking my kids what they want for Christmas or if they're excited about the Easter bunny.
#ChristianSupremacy is the fact that we need to have a big public legal debate about whether Christians can be expected to treat gay people as equals if it violates their religious beliefs, but non-Christians are expected to work on religiously mandated days of rest.
It's great to see folx celebrating #KamalaHarris as an #interfaith icon. But, I wonder if we're going to have any serious conversations about how her story represents the way #ChristianSupremacy makes it so common for folx to embrace Christianity over other religions. 1/
#KamalaHarris was raised primarily with her #Hindu mother, but that she now identifies as #Christian. She also went to a #Baptist church as a child, along with friends in her neighborhood. Presumably (like most places), church attendance was normalized, Hindu temples weren't. 2/
So, despite the strong #Hindu influence at home, her #Christian identity became central. She doesn't even identify as both, which is totally possible if your religions aren't exclusivist. eg: I identify with 2 religions (both non-Christian) because of my interfaith upbringing. 3/
