Irresponsible biblical messages like this as a tatoo sends the wrong message to it's followers that encourages anti-Asian racism and violence by allowing followers to think that they can be closer to their god by eliminating temptation by murdering innocent people like the recent killing of Asian women in Atlanta.
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Christine Hong, an assistant professor of educational ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, said the rationale authorities attributed to Long evinces a toxic combination of Christian sexual purity theologies.
“Sexual purity theologies are tied to white supremacy because Asian women have a transcontinental history of being hypersexualized and fetishized through Orientalism and militarism in Asian nations,” Hong said. “You can be a 65-year-old grandmother whose job is to feed co-workers at an Asian-owned day spa and suddenly you are a sex worker, a ‘temptation’ for white men. These dangerous theologies erase the lives and personhood of the Asian women the shooter murdered and instead make them solely temptations to be eliminated. He preserves his righteousness by eliminating the temptation.”
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Christine Hong, an assistant professor of educational ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, said the rationale authorities attributed to Long evinces a toxic combination of Christian sexual purity theologies.
“Sexual purity theologies are tied to white supremacy because Asian women have a transcontinental history of being hypersexualized and fetishized through Orientalism and militarism in Asian nations,” Hong said. “You can be a 65-year-old grandmother whose job is to feed co-workers at an Asian-owned day spa and suddenly you are a sex worker, a ‘temptation’ for white men. These dangerous theologies erase the lives and personhood of the Asian women the shooter murdered and instead make them solely temptations to be eliminated. He preserves his righteousness by eliminating the temptation.”
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Hi,
I'm thinking about getting this done for a tattoo, it's a section from 1 Peter 1:16 in the Bible and is speaking about being holy/consecrated/set apart unto God. If I get it, it will be vertical if that's any help! Thank you guys for this free service that you're offering...so helpful!!! :D